Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 9th day of December 2003 by Charles H. Taylor/Transylvania Tree Farms in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant *591to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 5th day of February 2004."Justices ORR and MARTIN recused.