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Bent to the breaking point

Eighteen inches of wet, heavy snow didn’t just look pretty, it also stuck to tree branches, loading them with hundreds of extra pounds of dead weight. From the perspective of the university’s trees, the January 26 snowstorm was the worst in over a decade. Among the hardest hit were an American holly near the entrance to the Bronk building, and a blue atlas cedar on the southeast corner of Caspary Auditorium. Both will survive, but will need to be treated by an arborist in the spring.

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