The preponderance of our failures were tree-related.

It sounded like someone beating a board on a tree trunk.

The proper planting of a tree is essential to ensure survival.

Christmas tree farmers, like virtually all other professional farmers, use agricultural chemicals in a careful and prudent manner and Christmas tree recycling has become the norm in virtually all American communities.

A tax of this sort would be passed onto students. The institutions don't have a tree in the backyard that they can go to and just put that kind of money in.

The part that is related to FEMA we can get back, but trips to the zoo, to the mall and to the movies we have to incur, ... I'll have to find the money by cutting something else because we will not say no to helping evacuees.