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PORT TOWNSEND — A second town hall-style meeting on the future of the Lombardy poplar trees lining Port Townsend’s entrance is set for today at 5 p.m. The forum ...

Dead and diseased Lombardy poplar trees growing as a visual screen between Interstate 90 and the Spalding Auto Parts wrecking yard will be cut down. The trees are part of a highway beautification ...

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PORT TOWNSEND — It’s not a matter of whether the Lombardy poplar trees will come down, it’s a question of what happens in the wake of the clearcutting. That was the message from city officials during ...

Lombardy poplar trees dot the landscape at the bottom of the canyon. That's because they were a favorite of settler I.B. Perrine; he planted several groves near his ranch. Others followed his example ...

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PORT TOWNSEND — A meeting next week will address the planned removal of the iconic Lombardy poplar trees along Sims Way in Port Townsend. The virtual meeting will ...

Peninsula Daily News: Town hall on poplar tree removal plan set tonight

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Some Western Washington poplar trees are turning brown just weeks after leafing out this spring and most will probably never be green again. Horticulturists say a deep lesion called a canker is ...

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Peninsula Daily News: Town hall to discuss removal of iconic poplar trees

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Lombardy[b] (Lombard and Italian: Lombardia; [a][c] Romansh: Lumbardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers 23,844 km 2 (9,206 sq mi); it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is located between the Alps mountain range and tributaries of the river Po, and includes Milan, its ...