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Group Brings Sustainable Trees to Urban Core

Sep 3, 2010

When the commercial real estate market dried up, many satellite industries also drooped – including Atlanta nurseries that were suddenly stranded with excess inventories of trees and other plants. Unlike a warehouse, office building or indus...

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Select Trees is Agri-Business of the Year

Feb 18, 2010

If you happen to visit Dallas Cowboys Stadium during the summer, chances are you will seek shelter from the searing heat of a Texas afternoon. And, chances are, the trees that provide you shade outside the stadium are from Oconee County. The same ...

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Emory University: New Trees Truck-Spaded on Campus

Feb 15, 2010

Last month Emory received 10 oak trees through a donation by the Select Sustainable Tree Trust. The trees, larger than most planted on campus, average in height between 24 to 28 feet. They were planted via a ‘truck spade’ (shown in photo, at righ...

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Select Trees Gets Top Business Award

Feb 7, 2010

The Oconee County Chamber of Commerce recently named Select Trees Inc. as the Larry Risse Agri-Business of the Year. The chamber presented the award Jan. 28 at the business association’s annual banquet. Select Trees, founded in 1985, operates as a...

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Berry to Begin Replacement of Historic Oaks Lining Road of Remembrance, Memorial Drive

Jan 13, 2010

For nearly a century, visitors to Berry College have enjoyed the beauty and shade of a towering allée (pathway) of oak trees planted in the early 1920s to honor the 11 Berry boys who were killed during World War I. Today, campus officials are taki...

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