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The Missouri Botanical Garden is on a mission to save the Fraser fir

St. Louis on the Air

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There's lots of these out there being grown in in anchristmas tree lot. So it would seem like they're not necessarily endangered. But am we don't really know where those plants came from, and there's no documet ation that tells us that. And so genetic diversity is important because it allows these plants to adapt when there's new pests and diseases and droughts or climate change.

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