Word: oakes
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Ranger George knows every inch of his acreage. His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves...
...cedar that is vexing him now, the clotting underbrush that chokes the majestic old oak and elm hardwoods. "When it is cleared, you'll have the full effect of the amphitheater," he says, sweeping his hand across the long ridge of limestone that leads to the waterfall. "I'm making the case for my cedar-eradication project," he says, pointing out yet another patch of the annoyance long after he needs to make the case...
...again, would we fight the lines at our voting station as we did that Tuesday morning? The laws and statutes established to decide the outcome of a close election obviously carry no weight for either candidate. Let the people's voice be heard. TRACI ORTIZ Royal Oak, Mich...
...cards--large pieces of oak tag to be delivered to administrators--read "The Holidays Are a Time for Compassion: Show Some Compassion, Join the Workers Rights Consortium...
Bill Anderson and Lorie Strait hadn't read Peter Mayle before they bought a home in Provence in 1996 for their retirement. But life in their stone house, situated amid fields of lavender and groves of oak, could easily provide a sequel to A Year in Provence...