Forest service cultivates precious Kansas resource

The independent agency, housed at K-State, promotes tree conservation, management and planning around the state.

You may not think about it often, but you have a favorite tree, Matthew Norville bets.

Maybe it’s a droopy weeping willow that you wove through as a kid in your grandma’s backyard. Or a towering, mature oak older than the city park it shades. It might even be a young evergreen at the town…