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The legislation regulates land use and allows for the creation of boundaries within which native vegetation should be preserved.
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Our team, Red 5, did three environmental projects in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, where we removed exotic vegetation, planted native vegetation, built trails and renovated park equipment.
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Cape Town banker Bill McAdam had bought the place four years earlier and started ripping out the orchards and tea fields to allow the native vegetation to reestablish itself.
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Williams roams Connecticut's woods armed with a propane torch to incinerate clumps of Japanese barberry, an invasive plant species that chokes off native vegetation and provides a favorite habitat for ticks.
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In such places, so-called "Xeriscaping, " an approach to landscaping that uses native, drought resistant vegetation, makes a great deal more sense--at least if local municipal laws allow it.
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This initiative generated multiple benefits: protecting native biodiversity, increasing local water supply, and enabling the company to use the cleared vegetation as biomass fuel.
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