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Veteran Fights Utility Company To Keep Beloved Tree

A Vietnam veteran is fighting to keep a utility company crew from digging in his backyard, fearing a 17-year-old tree may die because of their work.

2013/05/06

Woodland Trust Inspect Trees For Signs Of Ash Dieback Disease

Tree Planted In Memory Of Victims

The Tarrant County Coalition of Crime Victim Services will plant a tree Thursday, April 25 in recognition of crime victims rights week.

2013/04/24

Halloween’s Over, Time For Christmas

Even though it’s just the first week of November, and temperatures were nearly 90 degrees outside, the Christmas decorations are already up at the Kornet home.

CBS 11–2012/11/02

North Texas Trees Leveled For New Home Development

They were like old friends cut down in the prime of life. Dozens of trees, some more than 30 years old, were torn down in Plano on Friday, to make way for a luxury home development. Residents knew the day was coming, but many still weren’t prepared.

CBS 11–2012/08/20

A garden in full bloom. (credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Dirt Crime: Police On The Lookout For Plant Thieves

Some thefts in a North Texas city have police truly digging for clues. Police in one North Texas city say someone has been stealing ornamental grasses and flowers from the city’s plant beds.

2012/06/28

Family Goes To Great Lengths To Save The ‘Big Tree’

It was there during the Texas Revolution. It was a bit taller during the Civil War. When Jacob and Sophia Koonsman found a homestead south of Stephenville in Erath County, the big oak became the tree the family settled around.

2012/04/30

On The Road: Fort Worth Bicycle Tree

One person I have never forgotten is George Hilton. A few years ago I went by his place to do a story on his somewhat famous tree. You see Hilton is the man responsible for the ‘bicycle tree’ in Fort Worth.

2012/04/10

Near Jupiter Rd. and Walnut this afternoon. City officials came and cut the tree and cleaned up - Phyllis and Jim Hilliard,
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Drought Followed By Heavy Rains Killing Older Trees Across Texas

The large oak tree in Margaret Kliever’s front yard has likely made it through a century of Spring storms, but it wasn’t strong enough to withstand Monday’s wind or Tuesday’s rain.

2012/03/21

CBS 11's Susy Solis arrived at the house in Forest Hills - Crews are on scene trying to cut the tree. The mail carrier stayed inside his truck and is safe - Power is out to the neighborhood.

Snow, Rain, Heat, Gloom Of Night, Toppled Trees…

Postal worker Roger Campian was sitting inside his mail truck, about to head out to deliver mail along the same route he’s worked for the past 10 years, when he heard a loud noise.

2012/03/20