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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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Seed Banking

90% of the mature fir trees in great smoky mountains national park have been killed off in the last 50 years. The insect kind of gets in the way of its norma, arteries. So that a very large area of its native range was affected. There are a population im in western, in west virginia, that im actually was able to survive relatively well. Are collecting seed collecting efforts.

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