After the prayer, Dean Norton, Mount Vernon’s director of horticulture, said: “When you take a tree of this historic nature and … do some real special ceremonies … it honors the tree.

ST. LOUIS - If you've driven near the Gateway Arch recently, you've seen a lot of the changes taking place. This summer, hundreds of ash trees on the Arch grounds will be removed, threatened by a ...

Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • For the 1,000 or so ash trees on the grounds under the Gateway Arch the question is not if, but when. The emerald ash borer, a pernicious critter that has decimated ...

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Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • The ash trees framing the Gateway Arch landscape will ultimately be replaced by one of eight other species.

Vernon's annual 9/11 memorial ceremony this year will feature a direct link to a survivor: a sapling from a pear tree found buried under the World Trade Center rubble and nursed back to health.