Mr. WALLY COVINGTON (Northern Arizona University): To try to extrapolate results from hemlock, Douglas fir, western ridge cedar to Ponderosa pine or to loblolly pine is nuts.

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Eisenhower loved almost everything about the course, except for one tree a loblolly pine on number 17, which seemed to attract his ball like a magnet.

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Henry Amerson, also at North Carolina State University, is using genetic markers too, this time to breed fungal resistance into southern pines such as the loblolly.

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The risk of severe weather is somewhat more modest in Chesapeake Bay, where the required home elevation is 2.5 feet, explains Steve Kieran, architect and owner of the Loblolly House in Taylors Island, Md.

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