And the city planning department in San Francisco is letting residents vie for a free drought-tolerant yard makeover through its Ugliest Yard Competition, The San Francisco Appeal reports.
They're disease-free, drought-tolerant.
Make sure its well ventilated and free of droughts, and in view of other horses, as they like companionship.
Wind companies want Congress to extend the credit, as has happened many times before, to sustain their emissions-free and drought-proof energy source.
India's Supreme Court recently ordered that food be distributed free to people in drought-hit areas, but nothing had arrived here yet.
Since last summer, Turf Terminators has been offering residents free lawn removal and drought-tolerant landscape installation, in exchange for the rights to collect the rebate money, which ranges from $2 to $3.75 per square foot of lawn replaced.
Originally I had intended a long section on log poaching in Indonesia, but I ran out of time and space, and a plan I had to visit Sumatra (I like to go to places I write about, always thinking about Steinbeck's big error in "Grapes of Wrath," where he placed his Okies in the eastern drought-free part of Oklahoma because he worked from a road map rather than actually going there).
Don't count on a drought-free future, however.
Almost half of California is drought-free after heavy storms.
Feds say 25% of California is drought-free, but state experts are still cautious.
-- Federal officials say 25% of California is drought-free, but state experts are still cautious.
