A Nature Conservancy Volunteer's Hunt for Champion Trees
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Gary Williamson, 82, has found more Champion Trees—the largest of their species—than anyone else, discovering seven or eight in the 1980s around the Chesapeake while hiking and canoeing with a science teacher friend, and continuing the quest for decades as a Nature Conservancy volunteer.
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