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(2004) identified a number of problems associated with trees, including allergies, obstructing street signs, damaging power lines, increasing concealment for criminal behavior, and causing sap damage to automobile finishes, and the perceptions that trees are unsightly when not maintained, that trees cost cities too much money, and that tree roots are the principal cause of cracked sidewalks.

These extend between 12 and 18m below ground, threaded through a complex system of ancient tree roots. A radar survey of the subterranean landscape was used to pinpoint safe locations.

Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction Independent Publishers Group, October 2000, $24, ASIN 0-967-96832-1

He was entangled in a tree root less than a mile from his grandparents' house, dangling precariously over the stream with his feet in the water.

He lashed it and had to take his left hand off his club because of the jolt from the club cutting into the tree root.

It's been here a long time, though, because a big tree root runs right over it in the middle, covering a little of the Vand some of the smooth part.

Examples in his experiments included "the dumb-bell model of reinforcement simulating animal bone," which improved strength by 100%; the tree root type structure, which improved not only strength but fracture toughness; and the distribution of fibers to mimic the structure of bamboo, which improved flexural strength by 81%.

Duke's Root Control is a full-service root control company dedicated to keeping sewer systems free of tree root growth.

A: Visualize the tree root system as a flat pancake that spreads outward from the trunk, potentially in all directions, one and one half times the height of the tree.

Though it is, to be fair, one hell of a beautiful coffee table, comprising, as it does, an entire tree root. Yes, read again if you need to.

I was helping a friend put in a retaining wall and had spent most of the day digging the footing, which involved hacking through tree root after tree root.

Yet, editor Nalo Hopkinson (author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber) believes Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root is "the first time an anthology of Caribbean literature has sought to use expressions of the fantastical as its central theme." And how well it does it.

One of the deepest roots ever found was a cedar tree root that had followed several rock fissure and grown almost 200 ft down into a mine shaft.

John was driving his motor when it hit a tree root, teetered on the edge of a gorge and fell down.