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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Univ. WI publishes the magazine 'Wisconsin People and Ideas', website 
wisconsinacademy.org  In the Fall 2015 issue was a nice article about the 
project to preserve and ID old apple trees on the former farms of the former 
Badger Army Ammunition Plant. "Of Connection and Renewal". I've tried to 
figure out how to post a link for the listserv, but the magazine's website 
and the URLs at the end of the article aren't any help.  The group doing the 
project-- the Badger Apple Corp-- doesn't have a website.

It's an interesting article and seems fairly complete (lacking mention of 
some of the hard winters and long droughts these trees have survived).  I 
don't know how to get it to the listserv other than scanning it and linking 
the images, which is probably against copyright.

Otherwise, watch for results of some research the article mentions: the 
accumulation in fruit of toxins from contaminated soils.

Tanis Cuff, s.WI, crocus and snowdrops blooming but wind damaged, earliest 
buds swelling but slowed by temerature drop