It is up to Apple to shake the forests so we can start finding spaces amongst the trees to grow our saplings.

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Though investors routinely buy mature timberland, trees must be replaced as they are culled, and saplings take time to grow.

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Hillen says the community never expected to see the memorial grow so quickly, from a few saplings to what now seems like a forest of nearly 300 trees.

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