MU researchers plant willow trees in a flood plain management study

Thursday, March 22, 2012 | 5:01 p.m. CDT; updated 10:55 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 22, 2012

COLUMBIA — When a dozen or so MU researchers and students stepped onto a bare Hinkson Field on Thursday morning, their feet sank into the soft, rain-soaked ground as they planted 777 willow trees.

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