On this Arbor Day, when people are encouraged to plant trees, meet a Kentucky physician who has planted more than 750,000 of them on his own land.
Dr. James Middleton, 68, who also is a farmer and forester near Munfordville, Kentucky, began adding to his family’s land holdings in the 1970s, buying areas along the Green River that others had stripped of timber and abandoned. He’d plant oak and black walnut, and then harvest some of the wood, but replant.
Doctor who planted 750K trees gets Arbor Day weekend salute – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
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