Vitamins Can Solve Many Problems, and May Even Lengthen Your Dog’s Life Span!<br><br>by Brigitte Smith<br><br>There is evidence to suggest that a good vitamin supplement for your dog not only helps prevent, improve or cure many degenerative type illnesses and disease, but may actually lengthen your dog’s life span. Really!<br><br>This is particularly the indication if you supplement with vitamins while your dog is young and healthy, rather than waiting for your dog to get sick or show the usual signs of aging and degeneration.<br><br>So let’s start with a little lesson on the cause, and effects, of disease. …<br><br>Disease is a process which gradually debilitates the cells of an organism. The organism may be you, or me, or your dog (or mine!)<br><br>Debilitated cells are unable to rebuild, regenerate and repair damage which inevitably occurs just through the fact of being alive and moving day by day closer to the end of life. Of course, much greater damage can be caused by poor nutrition or other dietary deficiencies or excesses, environmental poisons, physical and/or emotional stress or insufficient excercise. In short, anything which pushes the organism past its optimum capacity, or causes it to fall short of its optimum capacity, can and will cause damage and will debilitate the cells.<br><br>Do you ever supplement your own diet and lifestyle with vitamins and/or minerals?<br><br>Me too.<br><br>But you know what? It didn’t occur to me that my beautiful dogs would benefit from a good vitamin supplement until recent years. <br><br>I always (wrongly) assumed that if I gave my dogs a largely natural diet of raw meat and bones, with the occasional addition of steamed vegetables and rice or pasta, and with a morning snack of a small handful of commercial dry dog food, my dogs would always remain in tip top health.<br><br>Luckily for me, I was on the right track, and my dogs have always been very healthy. My vet routinely compliments me on their great teeth and gums and wonderful general health.<br><br>But as they started getting past their prime, some health concerns started popping up. Kara, my Rottweiler, started developing arthritis and the effects of hip dysplasia (which she’s had since very young, but without any symptoms). Similar to my own parents (who’re well into their 60’s), Kara started to look a bit older and stiffer when she moved, and especially when she got up after lying still for a while.<br><br>So I started Kara on a dog vitamin supplement. And, oh, what a difference! It took a few weeks to kick in, but once I’d found the right dose and the vitamins started to show their effects, Kara appeared more youthful – less stiff – and she didn’t look so uncomfortable when moving around. It really has done wonders.<br><br>And still I didn’t "get it" in general terms. Because Kara clearly had a problem, I decided to treat it with a supplement. But I didn’t think to treat Jet, my Staffordshire Bull Terrier, as well, which I should have done just to keep her in tip top health even though she had no specific problems back then. Besides which, Kara takes her vitamins in tablet form, and you may recall that Jet is a tablet nightmare!<br><br>But when Jet was also diagnosed with the early stages of a degenerative disease – gradual loss of her eyesight – the penny finally dropped. I thought "Why on earth am I not giving Jet a vitamin supplement as well?" So I use a tablet crusher and mix the crushed tablet with peanut butter. Yes, these tablets crush pretty well. And Jet eats them! I have to admit that she still looks suspiciously at the concoction each day, but the lure of the peanut butter usually gets the better of her!<br><br>Nowadays I absolutely swear by dog vitamins. I really don’t know why I didn’t think them necessary long ago. But better late than never. <br><br>And my dogs are now in peak health even though they’re both coming up to 9 years old.<br><br>Do you want your dog to enjoy peak health?<br><br><A href="http://www.HealthyHappyDogs.com/Vitamins"target=_blank>Click Here for more Pet Vitamin information!</A><br><br>(c) 2005, Brigitte Smith, Healthy Happy Dogs<br><br>Brigitte Smith is a dog lover with a special interest in holistic dog health. Her site, <A href="http://www.HealthyHappyDogs.com"target=_blank>Healthy Happy Dogs</A>, has pages and pages of information on improving your dog’s health naturally.<br><br>For your special FREE report – "How to Improve Your Dog’s Health Within 30 Days – Maybe Even Lengthen Your Dog’s Life!", <A href="http://www.healthyhappydogs.com" target=_blank>Click Here for Your Free Dog Health Report!</A><br><br>

Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote a short story The Three Questions. These three questions were:

1. When is the best time to do things?
2. Who is the most important one?
3. What is the right thing to do?

As business owners look to increase sales to improve their businesses, these 3 simple questions may help them achieve better results. Each question can be asked from the perspective of the owner as well as from the customer whether external or internal.

When is the best time to do things?

If your business has a strategic plan, this question is answered with far greater ease. If you are a salesperson who uses a proven sales process, again, you will be able to quickly answer this question. This question is really a question for proactive people. Reactive individuals never have the time to answer this question honestly because they are worrying about yesterday and tomorrow and not looking to the future.

Who is the most important one?

Once again a strategic plan will help answer this question. A successful business is about profits and profits are made from loyal customers both external and internal. If you customers are not who are most important, then it is time to rethink why you are in business.

What is the right thing to do?

Within the strategic plan lays the most important element to the success of any business ? the values statement. The words within this statement are the non-negotiable behaviors that everyone will demonstrate to do the right thing. When these words are actively modeled throughout the organization from the top down, this question is answered almost simultaneously as the right actions are executed.

Take the time to honestly answer these 3 questions and then make the necessary course corrections to improve your business results. Who knows, the answers may surprise you?

Using the Green Giant Arborvitae To Block Windmills: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills…..Plant Arbs to block the wind and the action of windmills.

Our farm, Highland Hill Farm, is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arborvitae, the Green Giant,a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

There is a proposed wind power site located in Herkimer County New York. This is adjacent to a 160 acre property that is currently being used as a tree resource by James R Hirst of East Penn Gardens, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This wind project called Top Notch, is proposed by PPM Atlantic Renewable a foreign owned wind power company. This company proposes to place about 56 wind turbines in the area near to the Hirst woodlot.

The turbines, hundreds of feet in the air will forever change the environment of the Top Notch area. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens Both will fight this project to the limit of their resources. According to James R. Hirst the ecology of his woodlot will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways. The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk, the air flows to and from the woodlot will change. As a result James estimates that the mean temperature change of his property will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course influence evaporation rates for the woodlot and surrounding wetlands. Changing the temperature of the vicinity will effect the native trout streams. There are known endangered species living in the East Penn woodlots and wetlands. These species will be at risk of having their habitat being changed. James Hirst believes that this native and natural ecology of the woodlot will be at risk if the wind turbines are installed. Along with the changes to the East Penn woodlot and wetlands James reports that there will be shadow and windmill flicker problems as well as noise problems from 16 wind turbines that will be installed near and around his property on 3 sides. Bear in mind that birds are one of the best methods of controling insect populations. Birds eat insects, mice, and rats. Mice and rats carry the Lyme Tick. Insects harm and kill millions of people worldwide. It is no wonder that in countries like China where birds are not protected, has become the breeding grounds for many of the world most feared virsus such as bird flu and influenza viruses. Therefore killing birds and bat helps in the sread of diseases to man.

Highland Hill Farm is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the best growing arborvitae cultivars, the Green Giant, is a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree. This arborvitae is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills being installed by PPM Atlantic Renewable. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

Plant and Establish Green Giant Arborvitae To Block Windmills Installed by PPM Atlantic Renewable: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills…..Plant Arbs to block the wind and the action of windmills.

Highland Hill Farm is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the best growing arborvitae cultivars, the Green Giant, is a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree. This arborvitae is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills being installed by PPM Atlantic Renewable. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

There is a proposed wind power site located in Herkimer County New York. This is adjacent to a 160 acre property that is currently being used as a tree resource by James R Hirst of East Penn Gardens, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This wind project called Top Notch, is proposed by PPM Atlantic Renewable a foreign owned wind power company. This company proposes to place about 56 wind turbines in the area near to the Hirst woodlot.

The turbines, hundreds of feet in the air will forever change the environment of the Top Notch area. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens Both will fight this project to the limit of their resources. According to James R. Hirst the ecology of his woodlot will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways. The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk, the air flows to and from the woodlot will change. As a result James estimates that the mean temperature change of his property will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course influence evaporation rates for the woodlot and surrounding wetlands. Changing the temperature of the vicinity will effect the native trout streams. There are known endangered species living in the East Penn woodlots and wetlands. These species will be at risk of having their habitat being changed. James Hirst believes that this native and natural ecology of the woodlot will be at risk if the wind turbines are installed. Along with the changes to the East Penn woodlot and wetlands James reports that there will be shadow and windmill flicker problems as well as noise problems from 16 wind turbines that will be installed near and around his property on 3 sides. Bear in mind that birds are one of the best methods of controling insect populations. Birds eat insects, mice, and rats. Mice and rats carry the Lyme Tick. Insects harm and kill millions of people worldwide. It is no wonder that in countries like China where birds are not protected, has become the breeding grounds for many of the world most feared virsus such as bird flu and influenza viruses. Therefore killing birds and bat helps in the sread of diseases to man. Also A recent study claims that 20% of all species will become extinct if the temperature rises .8 degrees C by 2100.

(The recent study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145-148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al)

Highland Hill Farm is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the best growing arborvitae cultivars, the Green Giant, is a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree. This arborvitae is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills being installed by PPM Atlantic Renewable. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

Would you send out the following letter via US Mail? I dought it. That’s what sets us apart. I know being different takes giant leaps in your faith in the power of advertising and what works. ******************************************************************

Greetings: You may already know that we are frugal. We readily admit to that. This letter is sent via a recycled envelope and stamp that were thrown out. We cut off the other persons return address and reused the envelope. This letter is recycled paper that someone threw out. The printer and computer this letter was printed on came from a clean out job my son did. Even the tape used to reseal this letter was salvaged. We keep our costs down. This is why you can get great deals at our farm and nursery. Now we are having our year end clearance. With this letter you will be able to buy all potted stock at 40% off. All Balled and Burlapped stock will be 20% off. We will even give away some off our surplus inventory. We know we can’t sell it all. So come this week and take advantage of us. Bring this letter with you so we can reuse it. You don’t need money! If you have barter bring or drag it in. If it is trash, we will just put it in our dumpster. You will be rewarded for your efforts. On Saturday we will be serving roadkill soup. My father will be cooking it and I promise that we will all be in top form for the day. Bill Hirst 215 651 8329 www.seedlingsrus.com

******************************************************************** This was one of our most popular and productive letters we we sent out by US Mail. For every 10 customers that we sent this letter to, we had about 2 come to the nursery and spend a minimum of $200 each. Being that we really did recycle this letter and hand addressed each letter, it did take time but it made quite an impression with our customers. This is just one of our many ways we keep in contact with our customers. Prospects are targeted thru email which requires no postage and is totally free.

The following is another of our marketing methods: Marketing our trees is better understood when you are thinking about marketing in terms of adding customers to your customer base and using free trees as a means of finding new potential customers. Thats why we always have promotions that include free trees. You can see an example of on of our free tree offers by going to our web site http://www.seedlingsrus.com We like to add potential customers by using our E-Newsletter to help make potential customers aware of our offerings. We have plenty of dormant stock and stock that is surplus to our needs. This is offered thru the E-Newsletter. Customers are made aware that the E-Newsletter will be used to notify of freebies. Customers to our nursery are also made aware that there are promotions and shown the promotions. All free items are offer subject to being on our E-Newsletter list. This readly gets them to signup for the news letter. Customers are offered discounts on stock when they bring their friends along while shopping. Thus we encourage group shopping. Free surplus is always sent along with group shoppers. Sort of like a volume discount incentive. We also use the tack of asking the customer to help us by finding other homes for our surplus. We might ask if their church needs any free surplus. This means they will ask others if they need our stock. The customer becomes an unpaid saleman but compensated by free tree offerings.

We always try to stand out from other nurseries. We try to be different. We find that people will finally come to our location for more than just trees. They want to find out if we really are real!!! I never thought that I could agree with Ted Kennedy. I never thought that I would take an anti-conservative stand on anything. But I have now seen the light. I recently visited a large windmill farm to see for myself what it does to the area and view their operations. It was an eye opening experience. Now I am no longer able to support their construction at all locations. I therefore wrote this article to help those whose properties and lives will be changed by these noisy, eagle and bird killing, flicker makers.

Using the Green Giant Arbor Vitae To Block Windmills: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills…..Plant Arbs to block the wind.

Our farm, Highland Hill Farm, is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arbor vitae, the Green Giant,a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arbor vita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arbor vitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

Who is the Best Running Back Ever? Here is the answer…

* Barry Sanders * Walter Payton * Emmett Smith * Jim Brown * Ladainian Tomlinson

Who is the best running back ever? Well why don’t we look at the list, first Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, Jim Brown, and finally Ladanian Tomlinson. First off Barry Sanders the man called “the most elusive running back in NFL history” and it is hard to argue with that. In 1996 he carried the rock 314 times and managed 1500 yards. Not to mention 400 yards caught out of the backfield he also crossed the plain 12 times, and had rookie of the year honors back in 1989 when he was only ten yards shy of the rushing title and had 280 rushes, and tied for second in rushing touchdowns. He had 3,606 rushing yards in the next two years including a 2,053 rushing yard season. That same season he would make a 300 receiving yard mark to create a one-third chance per season that he would hit 300 receiving yards, and 37 Touchdowns in those three years however, he would hit an end zone slump with only 4 touchdowns that 1998 season. But, was there really ever a “slump” for Barry Sanders well the only negative thing about him is his bare knuckles.

So who is next on the list? Well it has to be Walter Payton. Payton who played 12 years is the all-time leader in running and combined net yards. He has MVP honors twice in his career 1977 and 1985. In his career he has nearly half-a-thousand catches for forty five hundred yards, and 15 touchdowns, so he wasn’t much of a vertical threat. But since we are talking about the aerial attack of football he had 34 career passing attempts for 331 yards and 8 touchdowns. He had a career of 16,000 yards and 100 touchdowns in his twelve-year career not #1 running back of all time on paper. His best record maybe the most rushing yards in one game 275 against division rival the Minnesota Vikings. But, “Sweetness” does have a super-bowl ring on his finger, and seventy-seven one hundred yard rushing games.

So we have covered Payton and Sanders but now one man that will always be remembered in the cream of the crop Emmitt Smith. Emmitt had nearly 1,000 rushing yards in his rookie season where he earned rookie of the year honors. His best season was in 1993. Where he earned AP NFL MVP, Bert Bell MVP Trophy (Maxwell Club) PFWA MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and UPI NFC Offensive Player of the Year. Emmitt is another back with a ring but in this list the most impressive so far because he is the all time leader in rushing yards over a career with 18,335 and he shows durability playing 3 more years than Payton and 6 more years than Sanders. Not to mention thirty two thousand receiving yards. Emmitt did all of this being one of the best backs and one of the smallest at only 5′9″weighing only 212 over the course of his fifteen year career. But what maybe the most impressive stat is almost 1000 rushing yards in 2004 with the Arizona Cardinals. But, was something wrong with how he carried the ball? He averaged a rounded 5 fumbles a year. So all of these backs have one fault or another in there resume but no one is perfect.

Now there are three backs down two to go. These next two are the ones that keep coming up. Jim Brown also almost hit the century mark in his rookie year but he did it in only 12 games. But scoring wasn’t one of his highlights with 109 career Touchdowns. Now that wasn’t bad considering that he played 8 seasons in twelve and 14 game seasons that’s 128 games. He was known for his deadly stiff arm leading him 12,312 yards on the ground that’s 100+ yards a game, but he was playing against 1957-1965 Competition that wasn’t that great.

Now though competition is great and amazing such as Ray Lewis, Jason Taylor, John Lynch, and Champ Bailey you have to be great to play against great players. Great is a word that comes up when you talk about this man LaDainian Tomlinson. Tomlinson hit the 100 touchdown mark inside the 70-70 games played range. He was the quickest in the NFL History to hit 100 touchdowns. He is the all-time point scoring leader he broke Paul Hournings record. He is explosive he can catch, pass, and of course run. He has the single season touchdown record and it is still going at 30 right now. In his sixth season he has nearly broken the record of Jim Brown’s touchdown record two years early and against better competition. He even addresses Jim Brown as Mr. Brown. Unlike any one else in this five man list he had 1,236 yards in his rookie season with ten touchdowns and 350 receiving yards. He has never had a season under 1200 rushing yards and this season has 1700+ yards. In 2003 had 1600 rushing yards and 700 receiving yards. With 900 more yards in his career he will hit 10,00 rushing yards. He has only played for 6 seasons. This season he may hit the Super Bowl Ring right on the dot. Also he has pro bowl honors in ‘02, ‘04, ‘05, and ‘06.

So in conclusion I personally do not thing Jim Brown is the best running back in the history of the NFL. I think you have to say Smith he played longer than any one else on this unstoppable list. He has the ring, and the most career yards on the ground. If you look on paper he played a longer season then Brown and against way better competition then Jim Brown, and had high numbers when he played on one of the worst teams in football at the time. The reason Tomlinson isn’t #1 is because he has only played six years however, if this pace he is on keeps up which knowing Tomlinson will keep up then at the end of his career in six or seven more years he most likely will be the best running back ever but for now he is not.

About the Author

Nick Martin

Using the Green Giant Arborvitae To Block Windmills: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills…..Plant Arbs to block the wind and the action of windmills.

Highland Hill Farm is located in a heavy clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arborvitae, the Green Giant,a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com

Using the Green Giant Arborvitae To Block Windmills: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills…..Plant Arbs to block the wind and the action of windmills.

Highland Hill Farm is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arborvitae, the Green Giant,a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite tree to help block the effect operation of unsightly windmills. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills. Low or reduced air flow blocks the operation of windmills reducing noise and flicker of the mills. In addition wind mills that are not operating can not kill birds.

The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That’s where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young. These conditions are generally found near wind mills.

The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It’s conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 feet in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. This makes it a great choice for windmill mitagation.

Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is sould be your first choice in plant mitagation selection. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year ’round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.

Green Giants’ flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.

This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren and for sure the windmills. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don’t plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there’s a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the “Achilles Heel” for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.

If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. “Shadow flicker” – the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available. Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don’t expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.

We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son’s property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250′ setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don’t take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250′ of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250′ of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don’t care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.

Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:

Number of Members: Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886

Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209

Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137

Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034

Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579

Leonard Hendrix – Phone: 315-894-3211

Robert Hyde – Phone: 315-866-1898

John L Brezinski – Phone: 315-732-6397

Peter F Manno – Phone: 315-894-5454

Raymond Smith – Phone: 315-429-9433

If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!

Here are their Email addresses:

Dolores D Walawender – District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com) Jean E Maneen – District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com) Gary G Jackson – District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com) Leonard Hendrix – District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)

Please Tell Them not to support this taking…Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst

http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com

About the Author

Bill’s web site and farm specializes in The Green Giant Arborvitae…He is located in Doylestown and Milan Pa. Thbe web site is http://www.greengiantarbs.com