March 2007
When a Tree Falls - Premium Prices - Currents
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Breakline When a Tree Falls Builders take notice of the species they plant As a landscaping tree, the laurel oak is fast-growing, leafy, and tolerant of poor soil — qualities that have made it a popular choice for new homes and planned communities throughout the tree's native range in the Southeast. But the hurricanes of the past two decades have revealed a downside: the laurel oak topples in high winds. Studies of downed trees after recent Florida hurricanes have pinpointed the laurel oak as perhaps the most common of large trees to fall. "I've measured four hurricanes in the Pensacola
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