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| 1861 | 1 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 9 |
| 1876 | 31 |
| 1877 | 21 |
| 1878 | 16 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 7 |
| 1882 | 7 |
| 1883 | 33 |
| 1884 | 4 |
| 1885 | 28 |
| 1886 | 6 |
| 1887 | 11 |
| 1888 | 10 |
| 1889 | 31 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 28 |
| 1892 | 62 |
| 1893 | 40 |
| 1894 | 30 |
| 1895 | 41 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 7 |
| 1899 | 4 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1903 | 23 |
| 1904 | 23 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 8 |
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| 1910 | 4 |
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592 stories matching tree
- Reflecting Sunlight to Save the Harvest
Wenatchee orchardists experiment with mirrors and lime to bring color to the shaded fruit of the orchard floor.
- The Dispute Over the Pumping Station Trees
A landowner battles the city's light department after linemen clear-cut trees for a new high-tension line.
- Washington Burned the Nursery Trees—Then Came the Lawsuit
The state horticulture commissioner destroyed infected shipments from eastern nurseries. Now the nurserymen say he broke interstate commerce law.
- A Tragic Warning in the Slate Creek Woods
A logger is killed by a falling tree, fulfilling a premonition voiced by his son just moments before.
- The 'Plant Scurvy' Plague
A state official claims a revolutionary cure for orchard blights, blaming soil chemistry rather than disease.
- The Unbreakable Christmas Tradition
An immigrant inventor finds success in America with intricate, indestructible bead trees once commissioned by European royalty.
- The Last of the Pioneer Orchard
When Dexter Horton, Seattle’s banking titan, began felling his historic apple trees in 1885, he sparked a flurry of neighborhood rumors about the future of his downtown lots.
- A Fierce Gale Leaves Walla Walla Battered
A localized cyclone tears roofs from buildings and levels trees, leaving debris strewn across city streets.
- A Lonely Death on the Coast Meridian
A widower clearing his land near Blaine meets a tragic end while working in isolation.
- The Fruit Orchard Purge of 1916
As fruit growers in the Yakima Valley panic and rip out their orchards to plant alfalfa, one local paper warns that the cycle of boom and bust is as predictable as the rising sun.
- The End of the Christmas Candle
Electric lighting emerged in 1915 as a revolutionary safety solution to the annual tragedy of candle-lit trees burning down homes.
- The Risks of Expansion for the Local Marketing Union
As the Kennewick-Richland Marketing Union debates entering the tree fruit market, local leaders warn against overextending their influence.
- Tragedy in the Timber
A seventy-year-old man dies instantly after being struck by a tree during a felling accident near Cedarville.
- The Night Kennewick Lit Its Community Christmas Tree
Snow fell as hundreds of children gathered at Second and Yakima for candy, carols and a Boy Scout–guarded tree—with enough left over to send bags to a Spokane orphanage.
- The City That Forgot Its Trees: Seattle’s Dusty Streets and the Missed Opportunity for Green
A year after citizens demanded shade trees, the city remains barren. An editorial warns that without immediate action, Seattle will remain a 'dry, dusty' settlement rather than a beautiful metropolis.
- A Terrifying Drop from a Fir
An infantryman at Vancouver Barracks survives a forty-four-foot fall from a tree while attempting to catch a raccoon, an experience that left him shaken but alive.
- Orchardists Face New Menace
A dangerous agricultural blight has hit nearly every orchard in the Highlands, prompting an urgent call for collective intervention.
- Tree Limb Crashes Through Steamboat Cabin
A dangerous commute on the Snohomish River leaves a steamer damaged and its passengers shaken after a low-hanging tree limb shears the cabin roof.
- The Apple Trees That Sailed From England in a Sea Captain's Cabin
Seeds saved from a farewell dinner in 1833 were planted at Fort Nisqually and grew into the finest apple trees north of the Columbia. Now an editor wants Tacoma to move them to a park before the squirrels of Rosston are their only company.
- The Tenderfoot Lumbermen and the 340-Foot Giant
When two skeptical Wisconsin mill men visited the Pacific coast, they tried to school the locals on timber estimating—only to be humbled by the sheer scale of Washington's old-growth forest.
- A Newlywed Killed by a Cottonwood on the White River
John Scott had been married only four weeks when an undermined tree fell across the log jam where he was working near Auburn.
- The 'Little Hatchets' of Commercial Street
Vandals are destroying shade trees in downtown Seattle, prompting local residents to demand authorities intervene against the neighborhood boys.
- A Nighttime Tragedy at the Everett Brickyard
A storm-toppled tree crushes a worker's tent in the mud of Swaiwell Landing.
- A Fatal Miscalculation in the Vancouver Timberlands
A logger is killed at his work, a grim reminder of the high human cost of the Pacific Northwest’s booming timber industry in 1886.
- The War on 'Black Spot' in Washington Orchards
A state horticulturist investigates the mysterious apple tree disease threatening the region's fruit crops.