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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (184086)10/2/2009 9:01:23 AM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (1) of 225578
 
Wonderful memories. You can keep them coming any time you want. Reminds me of the times my grandfather talked about in the times around here. They are gone however. The days of wondering every ridge for 30 miles hunting rabbits and camping along the river and cooking those and fishing are behind us. Fortunately I'm old enough to have caught the tail end of those years. Now those ridges are either 5 acres and a house and posted or just owned by IL and MN folks who of course post every inch of it even though they may not even get here but once a year.

My whole area was built around the logging industry and it's really quite fascinating. Your right about nature. The early loggers really devastated this area clear cutting every inch of virgin white pine. Today we have beautiful oak forests along with pine and softwoods on the newer cuts. More wildlife then we know what to do with. Really rather incredible.

There is an island of virgin white pine down in the Eau Claire county forest. It was a small area that was just too difficult to log. Really quite incredible. But after admiring the trees a thinking person comes to the conclusion that it is really quite a sterile environment totally devoid of wildlife or other plant life. The canopy overhead perhaps 150' in the air allows no sunlight. So you have beautiful white pines but nothing else.

I'll take the diverse forest that we have on top of the clear cuts thank you very much.
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