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This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory trees, including official trees of the following of the states, of the federal district, and of the territories. State federal district
A pondside iris at Crosby Arboretum. The Crosby Arboretum is located in Picayune, Mississippi, United States, and is affiliated with Mississippi State University. [1] It contains 64 acres (259,000 m 2) in its interpretive center, plus over 700 acres (2.8 km 2) in seven additional natural areas, sheltering over 300 species of indigenous trees and shrubs.
A magnolia tree on the west side of Jackson City Hall in Jackson, Miss., seen Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, is just one of a number trees in metro Jackson lost to the drought conditions last summer.
In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2] Tree volumes and weights are not directly measured in the field, but computed from other variables that can be measured. [3] [4]
De Soto National Forest, named for 16th-century Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, is 518,587 acres (810 sq mi; 2,099 km 2) of pine forests in southern Mississippi. It is one of the most important protected areas for the biological diversity of the Gulf Coast ecoregion of North America.
In early 2009, the State Farm Florida subsidiary, the state's largest insurer, offered to withdraw from writing property insurance business in Florida after state regulators refused to approve a 47% property rate increase. State Farm said that, in Florida, it had paid out US$1.21 in claims for every dollar in premiums since 2000.
A Pennsylvania couple has launched a lawsuit against local police and Nationwide Insurance after they allegedly had to sit for hours in a cop car because their hibiscus plant allegedly got ...
Before the arrival of Europeans, the area that would later become the state of Mississippi was populated by several Native American tribes, including the Natchez and Pascagoula in the Pine Belt. [3] [4] The native population declined as a result of armed conflicts with the Europeans, attrition from diseases, or coalescence with other tribes. [4 ...