Bartels’ River Birch is State Champion

  • JANENE AND DWAYNE BARTELS stand beside their State Champion Tree, a river birch in the front yard of their Tecumseh residence.
    JANENE AND DWAYNE BARTELS stand beside their State Champion Tree, a river birch in the front yard of their Tecumseh residence.
A river birch tree that was planted in the front yard of Dwayne and Janene Bartels’ residence at 261 N. 10th Street in Tecumseh in the early 1980s has officially been named a State Champion Tree by the Nebraska Forestry Service. Dwayne and Janene received a certificate in the mail to confirm this fact. Earlier in the year, Dwayne Bartels filled out the nomination form for the river birch to be…

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