Video tutorial about animating trees in Lightwave 3D using displacement mapping and weight maps. This technique can be applied to any vegetation and can be used on any version of lightwave. This is a technique of many of how to do it, but is very fast and works perfectly. I hope you find it useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bliPxn5e7mM
You can find the tree model in:
http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121042