Federal funding used to plant chestnut trees on senator's land

Thursday, March 13, 2003

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sen. Kit Bond has helped get federal dollars for a University of Missouri research center, and officials there have helped plant chestnut trees on Bond's Mexico, Mo., property.

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