The effects of slash and litter management practices on soil properties, tree nutrition and growth were quantified to evaluate harvesting methods with respect to sustainable management of the replanted sites.
And we were "fireproofing" our property, thinning trees around the house should a wildfire break out.
Whatever curative property the trees possessed, how were they casting it through a pane of glass?
Parking could be in an above-ground structure, leaving more of the property for trees.
One, at the corner of the house, has windows on three sides overlooking the property's trees and gardens.
Over the two years that the DiNardos have been clearing the property of trees and surrounding it with high stone walls, neighbors have become increasingly concerned.
A property with trees to spare, and perchance a stream, on the other hand, might make a sit-down family dinner a dim memory.
Afterward, guests walked to a tent at the back of the property, past trees with candles in jelly jars hanging on invisible wires from the branches.
Suburban Hatfields and McCoys commonly feud over boundary encroachments (a new driveway or fence that creeps over the property line), trees and bushes (which might block a neighbor's view or sunlight) and eyesores.
Eleanor Fairchild, 78, who owns a ranch in Winnsboro, Texas, has already watched the company build across her property, destroying trees and threatening water sources, she said.
"...the city has learned from the past, and has permanently strapped down down all property and trees to the ground with industrial strength rope and then crossed its fingers.
