I am getting ready to move and just found this gem. Is there a place I can contribute?

I hope to bring that sensibility with me. Thanks for the kind words.

If it's not too big, I can help in the next couple weeks. I'm moving out of town in mid-April though.

yep, the dreaded and invasive callery pear. aka Bradford pear :-(
The good news is that you can get a free native tree if you take that down! I believe MDC is still doing that program.

Root tea of sassafras has long been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments. Science has cast doubt on its efficacy and has shown that safrole, an oil in sassafras, causes cancer in laboratory animals. The FDA banned sassafras tea, roots, and oil in commercially produced foods and drugs. 4/4

Sassafras is the traditional flavoring for root beer and thickening agent (filé) for Creole gumbo. 3/4

The sassafras fruit is eaten by many species of birds, including bobwhite, woodpeckers, mockingbirds and catbirds, flycatchers, and wild turkey. The leaves and twigs are browsed by woodchucks, deer, rabbits, and bears. Rabbits may eat the bark in wintertime. 2/4

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When I drive instead of riding my bike, I nearly always take a left there. Not my first, won't be my last bad life choice. Ha!

I don't think we have a choice at this point.