Trump's Trees Upset California Neighbors
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. - Donald Trump has upset his upscale peninsula neighbors - again. First he erected an unauthorized 70-foot flagpole at his Trump National Golf Club, then he built a tee 8 feet higher than allowed.
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By PEGGY ANDERSEN, Associated Press writer  SEATTLE  In the past quarter century, this Emerald City in the Evergreen State has lost nearly 1.7 million trees  roughly half the urban forest that shaded yards, parks and open spaces  to population growth, lax maintenance and view seekers.
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NIPOMO, Calif. - At Holloway's Christmas Trees, they'll help cut down a tannenbaum, spray it with flame retardant and cover it in fake snow.  They just don't do animal control.  A woman draping her tree with lights was bitten Sunday by a bat that had been nesting in the tree.
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Folk singer Joan Baez and a woman  who once spent two years perched atop a giant California  redwood took up residence on Wednesday in a tree in a Los  Angeles community garden that is threatened with demolition.
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California finds fault with the Bush administration's math on competing climate plans for cars.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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While many Christmas trees sparkle with tinsel and lights during the holiday season, some reek of fox urine or wear a splatter of pink stain.
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Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California on Friday, toppling trees, flipping big rigs, cutting power to more than a million people and threatening mudslides in fire-scarred areas.
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Find out which factors&#151;from rising temperatures to alien weeds&#151;are creating a recipe for disaster in California's Mojave National Preserve.
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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ROSEMONT, Ill. - Donald Stephens spent more than half a century at the helm of this Chicago suburb. Now, less than two months after his death, some say an eerie likeness of the late mayor's face has appeared in the peeling bark of a 50-foot sycamore.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 11 -- A local rabbi is receiving hate mail and angry phone calls, his attorney said Monday, after officials at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed Christmas trees over the weekend.
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Filmmaker Clint Eastwood has lost a battle with environmentalists over cutting down more than 15,000 of California's Monterey pine trees.  The state's coastal commission ruled Eastwood and other investors in the Pebble Beach Co.
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NIPOMO, Calif. - Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she'd been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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California's governor is furious at the Bush administration for standing in the way of states trying to clean up the environment their own way
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 23--SONORA -- Millions of small trees -- small enough to fit under a living room ceiling -- grow amid the big ones in the Stanislaus National Forest.