Callery pear tree invasion continues across Oklahoma

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Callery pear tree invasion continues across Oklahoma

Spring is the season of lovely white-flowering trees in Oklahoma, but one of the most visible of those trees has become an unwelcome sight.Bradford or Chanticleer pear trees are a domesticated cultivar— cultivated in nurseries for certain properties— that have given rise to a thorny problem in the wilds, according to ecologists, wildlife land managers and foresters almost everywhere.This year, Ohio became the first state in the nation to ban the…