Our goal is to provide landscape plants for all the housing developments. It's a little bit of diversification and an opportunity to capitalize on the growth.

We took a big hit canker-wise. The bigger hit will be not being able to replant because of the nurseries.

But that is an exit strategy, not an operating strategy. We will keep operating and figure something out.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.