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Sovereign Sapling: The Tree that Owns Itself

Can a tree own itself? If you visit Athens, GA or Eufaula, AL, you'll find trees that are self-owned. But is that even legal? It's certainly one way residents of those cities have found to help protect their historic Oak trees. In this episode, we discuss plants rights, how those trees even came to have self-ownership, and then we ask trivia questions to a bunch of strangers on the Internet!