One hundred years of growth and invisibility.

Story by Clif Travers

Most Portlanders have taken a bike ride, a run, or a stroll along Back Cove Trail on a beautiful day, never realizing the significance of what they’re passing through. Trees line the path—a curving stretch of littleleaf lindens— but we rarely notice them. “Except in spring,” Jeff Tarling, Urban Forestry Education Specialist for Maine Audubon, says. “When they blossom, everyone wants to know what they are.”

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