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Branching Out

Long before thousands of pink-blooming cherry trees turned the nation's capital into a springtime tourist draw, Washington was known as the "City of Trees." Its streets were well shaded, the parks lush and leafy.

But the 20th century was hard on Washington's trees, as disease and development took their toll.

In...

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