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Select Trees is Agri-Business of the Year
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 goes for many of the trees at Centennial Olympic P...
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Emory University: New Trees Truck-Spaded on Campus
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 right), which is optimal for the direct transport of l...
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Select Trees Gets Top Business Award
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 wholesale tree nursery that grows and sells susta...
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Select Trees Recognized as the Oconee County Agri-Business of the Year
Select Trees, Inc., the southeast’s leading grower of sustainable shade trees, was named the Larry Risse Agri-Business of the Year by the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce at their annual meeting held Thursday, January 28, 2010 at the Oconee County Civic Center. Select Trees is the wholesale grow...
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Berry to Begin Replacement of Historic Oaks Lining Road of Remembrance, Memorial Drive
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 taking steps to ensure that this living memorial conti...
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