GREAT FALLS Tree-care professionals across Great Falls joined a nationwide effort to honor veterans by providing free landscaping services at the Montana Veterans Memorial.

Tree Amigos, Tilleraas Landscape Nursery, and other local companies participated in Saluting Branches, a nonprofit organization that provides tree and landscape care to properties dedicated to veterans.

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"Great Falls is a tough area to grow trees between the climate and the deer that come in. And, we just have to keep up with the pruning and make sure that it all looks good," Owner Tileraas Landscape Nursey Steve Tilleraas said.

Jason Stringer, owner-operator of Tree Amigos Tree Service, said the event spans the country.

"It's going on around the whole country, all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico a

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