Traditionally known as a European crop used to make sweets and healthy cooking oils, hazelnuts may have even bigger potential as a bio-fuel and feed for livestock, researchers say. And hazelnuts are environmentally friendly to grow according to researchers at the Arbor Day Foundation, a tree conservation organization.

Trees are important, especially on hot summer days in southeast Georgia. It's a fact not lost on the soldiers who call Hunter Army Airfield home.

Long before Betty Smith wrote about a tree growing in Brooklyn or Joyce Kilmer swooned over trees lovelier than poems, there was Mary Beaty of Conway.