
The Missouri Botanical Garden is on a mission to save the Fraser fir
St. Louis on the Air
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Save the Fraser
The missouri botanical garden says the fraser is now endangered in the wild due to an invasive sap sucking insect. Because the species is not native here, the frasier fur wasn't able to evolve any type of defense against it. 90% of mature fir trees in great smoky mountains national park have been killed off in the last 50 years.
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