Branching out: Teens help measure and map Springfield’s urban forest

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Fredrick Phillips calls it “the beast.”

It’s a massive maple tree near Clearwater Park in Springfield with towering offshoots rising from 15 trunks. And he was tasked with measuring the whole thing.

“Gnarly to say the least,” he said. “It took us like 30 minutes” to collect the data…

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