With either method, the tree will eventually send feeder roots into the planting area, and your shade plants will need extra water and fertilizer to compensate for what the tree uses. When you add plants, some small tree roots must be cut to create planting holes. Because of rising tree roots and the amount of shade, the lawn is becoming unsightly, and we're not sure how to attack this problem. Your best bet is to take out the lawn and replace it with a combination of shade plants and...

The industry will have the right to buy off traditional rights of fodder and other forest produce from people if it can negotiate with the gram sabha or JFM panels. NEW DELHI: Reacting to the move to contract forest lands for growing plantations for private players, a senior ministry official said, "We think these forest management programmes are now politically mature enough to negotiate with these industries. At the time, government had suggested direct leasing of forest land to industry...

A dozen or so adults helped contain a potentially damaging forest fire that threatened to destroy one private cabin after a pair of ladies spotted the initial blaze. We kept walking and realized it was a full-blown forest fire. We made a chain of people, holding on to waists, and we started passing buckets of water up the chain, and we were dousing the fire with water and shovels, said Wagner, who said she later found out that the cabin owner had been out doing some work earlier in the...

Fire crews from Black Forest, Brown Township, Waterville and Pine Creek volunteer fire companies in Lycoming County, along with Kettle Creek and Haneyville fire companies in Clinton County, battled the blaze just off Route 44, two miles north of the Black Forest Inn, in Lycoming County. Fire crews from Black Forest, Brown Township, Waterville and Pine Creek volunteer fire companies in Lycoming County, along with Kettle Creek and Haneyville fire companies in Clinton County, battled the...

An oligopoly best describes the disproportionate concentration of power by a few big players to influence price and making free marketeers more like free racketeers. Free for whom? Colossal corporations threaten a free economy more than public sector forces. Privateers were cut loose to divvy up markets, avoid competition, fix prices, bilk taxpayers, profit from cost overruns, receive bailouts and cozy-up with powerful officials who enrich cronies. Competition, the keystone of capitalism,...