Sentences with word «trees»

He argues, for example, that the notion of saving trees is nonsense.

That number is looking decidedly slimmer after Irma knocked fruit off trees, flooded fields and groves, and broke irrigation pipes.

On my uncles farm 400 fully grown citrus trees were cut down by the «war vets» because he refused to hand over the years tobacco crop to them.

Irma has ravaged a series of small islands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hospitals.

Category four Cyclone Debbie hit northeastern Australia on Tuesday between Bowen and Airlie Beach ripping up trees and causing widespread damage that is still being assessed.

The tweaks cost Two Trees an additional $ 1 million, says Bonnie Campbell, a project manager involved with the new build - out.

Hey, money doesn't grow on trees — am I right?

Self - made - millionaire Jon Long has profit margins four times a typical physician's with his business, We Love Trees.

All the trees are in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria.

The trees are sourced from blighted areas in the city.

He fells trees at incredible heights - usually at around 70 metres.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

His current business, «We Love Trees,» was founded in 2007.

As he notes in the show, at the end of the day, it's really all about «saving the trees.»

Hanging from these «trees,» the coral grows about four times as fast as it would on a rock or reef.

When he was just a boy, the deadly disease Oak Wilt rampaged through his Austin, Texas neighborhood, strangling and ultimately destroying trees.

Real Christmas trees outsell the artificial variety — most of which are made in China — by more than three to one.

What's more, despite the fact that «many executives see it as a badge of honor,» Jolly says, hurry sickness can also damage your career even before it wrecks your health, because being in an incessant hurry has a way of making people miss the forest for the trees.

A massive tornado just went through the D.C. / VA / MD area the day before her wedding and power lines and trees were blocking every entrance to the highway to her wedding in the boonies of Maryland.

His first business, Oak Wilt Specialist of America, was founded in 1998 and took off after he invested a total of $ 110,000 of his own money in the materials he needed to inject the trees with a fungicide called Alamo.

Then they remove the dead trees and replant more.

In a blog post labeled «Hurricane Irma,» Branson wrote, «We are still assessing the damage, but whole houses and trees have disappeared.

Users earn points toward planting virtual trees by adopting earth - friendly habits.

Another suggestion would be to use industry reports that are current, and not to use yield analyis that was done on wild grown trees instead of domestic plantation grown trees, pampered and bred for their yield.

In its heyday, it was a popular stopover for people looking to see the Calaveras Big Trees, a recently discovered grove of giant sequoias that attracted tourists from all over.

People can currently do some basics like using their voices to ask Amazon's Echo home speaker to play the Beatles» A Hard Day's Night or navigate automated phone trees when talking to your cable company.

On Detroit's East Side hundreds of trees have been planted this fall and 57 blighted homes will be demolished by the end of the year.

The US Department of Agriculture hopes that these special wasps will be a key ally in the fight against emerald ash borers, invasive beetles whose larvae have destroyed trees across vast swaths of northern and eastern America in just a few decades.

Michael Underhill has made a career out of following the timber sector, but he admits that investing in trees is not for Type A investors.

About a half - hour drive from there, the couple owns a four - story mansion surrounded by a koi pond, bonsai trees, and at least seven security cameras.

Once released, the wasps will track down emerald ash borers by sniffing at ash trees — they can actually smell the difference between healthy trees and infected ones.

Looking at KPIs in a vacuum can risk losing the forest for the trees.

«I realized I didn't want to kill trees for a living,» Powell says of his choice not to become a lawyer.

It's always seemed a bit sad that trees died in vain to create books that sit in our Midtown offices, which is as close as I'll ever get to waxing environmental.

In seconds, they can sweep trains off their tracks, uproot trees, and collapse entire buildings.

The common areas flow outside and under the trees.

It turns out that the 8 billion commercial timber trees those pesky beetles want to destroy are worth about $ 280 billion, all told.

Chosen as one of Toronto's first planned garden suburbs, Lawrence Park is blessed with lots of park space, mature trees and blossoming gardens.

Best Time To Go: Spring, when the ranch's pecan trees are in bloom Don't Forget To Pack: The cowboy boots you haven't worn since 1980 P.S.: Ranch hands can teach your employees a thing or two about herding longhorn cattle, baling hay, and harvesting pecans.

Since then, the Porras family has plowed $ 3 million into the 1,882 - acre farm, planting two million coffee trees and installing electricity and running water.

But does anyone think that a party still reeling from its inability to re-capture the White House that has seen a dramatic shift to the right in its core leadership in the past few years (Hint, maybe they can't see the forest for the extremely right - leaning trees) will be the party that wants credit, or the blame, for legalizing pot?

These wasps are actually on our side: a bug army deployed in a desperate attempt to save our dying trees.

Swetlishoff says the outbreak has wiped out 80 % of the region's pine trees, and pine makes up about 40 % of the trees in interior B.C.

Thousands of trees have been planted, paths have been paved, and the building's roof has been covered in solar panels.

The beetle targets mature trees, which is what companies usually prefer to harvest.

While the wasps can't save trees that are already damaged, they can — scientists hope — reduce emerald ash borer populations enough to protect trees that are healthy.

But as with so much of this kind of data, it's tempting to focus on the gnarly trees and how much different and worse theirs are than yours, and miss the forest, which is where the real lesson might be.

In a forest that's already too dense for the sun to shine through the trees, playing it safe has a tendency to produce yet more unremarkable trees.

Liu has since joined the board of directors, and gotten involved with a project to donate cacao trees to farmers and purchase the beans come harvest time.

How long do you need to spend among the trees?