As a local group becomes well known, tree owners will often come forward offering access to their unwanted apples or pears.
He used his considerable local power to build wide, tree-lined streets, a fancy new city auditorium and a magnificent, colorfully lit Prismatic Electric Fountain in the city's Ferril Lake.
In northern Lebanon, in the town of Becharre near the famous cedar tree forests, the local specialty is kibbeh mishwiyeh: fresh minced lamb rolled up with bulgur wheat to form giant meatballs the size of tennis balls, stuffed with caramelized onions and pine nuts and grilled until crunchy on the outside.
While other beers use hops trucked in from time zones away, Moonlight's Working for Tips thinks local: Its redwood twigs come from a tree in the brewery's front yard.
In many areas local utility companies will even cut back your wayward tree branches free of charge if they sit too close to electrical lines.
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Since the two recent storms, five separate investigations have begun examining the tree upkeep of utility companies and state and local governments.
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The group has found that where the Maya nut tree disappears, 50 to 80 percent of local species are wiped out in six months to a year.
Ricky Engel, a 16-year-old from Grosse Pointe, wasn't so lucky when he was playing a round of golf at a local country club, and drove his cart under a tree, usually a hot spot for the flies.
It also features Betsy, a local water buffalo, that only has a rope and a tree between herself and freedom.
Timberland and Smallholder Farmers Alliance are helping local farmers learn how to improve crop yields, develop eight community tree nurseries and support agricultural training centers in the region.
Though many invasive aliens are notorious for the harm they bring (pythons in Florida, cane toads in Australia, brown tree snakes in Guam), many others enhance the local nature scene.
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Local resort manager Greg Shean said the rescuer whacked the crocodile with a tree branch until it let go and disappeared into the water.
Now, with local unemployment nearing 14 percent, Spruce Pine is rebuilding around tourism and local crafts and is rebranding itself as the home of the perfect Christmas tree.
He also remarked on how the tree had become a bit of a 'diamond' on the local landscape.
Tree felling at a Manchester park has been scaled back after opposition from local residents and activists.
At the tree lighting, Judy and Frank collected donations for The Help Center, a local food pantry and clothing supplier for those in need.
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"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
There's a tractor-trailer overturned near a tree, and the only upright and functioning truck on this road is driven by men from the local power cooperative.
Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.
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