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Save a Living Treasure
Preserving a Living Legacy
At BCA, we are home to the largest Franklin tree in the entire St. Louis region—a breathtaking, historic specimen found nowhere else in the wild. Today, this extraordinary living piece of American botanical history needs us more than ever.
Perched on a high, windy hill, its multiple trunks are pressing against one another, creating deep internal splits that put it in real danger of tearing apart. Because the Franklin tree is extinct in the wild, its survival depends entirely on careful human stewardship.
Please consider sending a gift today to help fund the expert arborist care, structural cabling, and precise pruning needed to reinforce and protect this irreplaceable treasure for generations to come.
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Save a Living Treasure
Your support creates an immediate, lasting impact. Your gift today directly funds the critical preservation of our rare Franklin tree—providing the urgent structural cabling, bracing, and expert arborist care needed to save this historic specimen. Every contribution directly strengthens our mission to protect and preserve this magnificent, irreplaceable piece of botanical history.