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Trees on a Road.


Many states offer residents license plates decorated with the state tree or other regional tree species. Money collected for such plates usually goes toward local environmental restoration projects or groups.

Florida, one of the first states to offer environmental license plates, today lets resident choose from several plates with trees. California sports a "Lake Tahoe" plate with pine needles pine needles pine nplKiefernnadeln pl

pine needles nplaghi mpl di pino 
; money helps restore wetlands and eroded soil. And in New Jersey, drivers can get the Pinelands Pinelands can refer to the following things:
  • Pine Barrens (New Jersey)
  • Pinelands, Cape Town, a suburb in South Africa
See also
  • Pineland
  • Pine barrens
 license plate to help protect the state's 1 million acre Pinelands National Reserve.

The states produce an estimated 1,000 environmental plates, but no one has ever counted how many contain trees or forests, according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 Tom Murray Tom Murray may refer to:
  • Tom Murray (curler), Scottish winner of the Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France
  • Tom Murray (politician), a local politician in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
, author of Official License Plate 2000. His favorites: the New Jersey Pinelands, Oregon's douglas-fir, and Idaho's conservation plate.
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Publication:American Forests
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 22, 2000
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