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Welcome to Big Trees Forest Preserve- Katherine Coppedge, Master Gardener and Big Trees Board member, to share her love of Bog Trees at March 7 Big Trees of Sandy Springs class. (Photos by Sandy Shave)
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John Ripley Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve is a beautiful and unique 30-acre Fulton County tree, plant, and wildlife sanctuary, the legacy of John Forbes, the foremost preservationist of the great outdoors in the Southeast. The Big Trees Forest Preserve is now a part of the Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN), a national network of protected, native, publicly accessible mature forests. Big Trees is the first forest in Fulton County to receive the designation. ....

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