Searching for Mother Tree

Hannibal has earned the Tree City USA for 25 years and Hannibal Parks & Recreation is celebrating with a “Searching for Mother Trees” nature program at Riverview Park.
The program is free and open to the public, it begins at the shelter by the playground at 1 p.m. Sept. 15 and will be led by nature educator Gale Rublee.
She said, “Research shows that trees connected to each other, the oldest trees in a forest are known as ‘mother trees.’ They nurture younger trees by sharing sugar solutions and warnings from their roots into the fungi network that connects forests.”
Reservations for nature programs may be made on www.hannibalparks.org