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To: ManyMoose who wrote (167755)	10/13/2008 11:40:48 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) of 225578

One thing that surprised me was how fast oak grow. I always assumed that these massive oaks were hundreds of years old. My 80 was my grandfathers 80 and it was a farm along a marsh and creek. He planted every tree that is out there and it is a mature woods that has had a cutting on the oak and several on the pines. He did the planting in the 30's. Another example is the ridge north of my old house. Grandpa talked of them burning those ridges every spring so the blue berries would grow but about the 20's let it go to forest. It's a totally oak ridge with very large trees. He also talked of white pine stumps up there that 10 boys could not stretch their arms around. He was trying to remember but he said he was sure some were 8+ feet across. About 30 miles from me there is an island of virgin pine in the Eau Claire county forest. It's quite a hike off the road that I've threatened to take for years but haven't followed through on. Perhaps I need to do that and get pictures. Not something you see much of anymore. I guess the ground is clean because no light penetrates and the canopy is like 100' over head.

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