Source: NCDA&CS, 6/6/22


It started with a simple question: how do we get rid of those Bradford Pears? 

A simple premise, but complicated in execution. So when Dr. Kelly Oten of NC State University Extension began looking at ways to start reducing the numbers of the invasive tree species in North Carolina, she took inspiration from a program in our southern neighbor – a Bradford Pear “bounty” program which would invite landowners to uproot and bring in their Bradford Pear trees to be replaced with other native species.

Working with Lesley Moorman of the NC Urban Forest Coalition, Cara Moore of the NC Wildlife Federation and Jennifer Rall of the NC Forest Service, Oten began looking at options for getting such a program off the ground.

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