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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (65105)	12/4/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

Lizzie, 200 years to get a forest back to it's old-growth status is only an estimation. I was referring to mainly hardwood forests. Of course it would be longer for redwoods. Who knows if they really ever get back to a state that presumably took 10,000 years from the last ice age. The starting conditions would be different, therefore the outcome would probably be different. I saw a documentary where the only change made to an ecosystem in New Mexico was the barring of the pocket mouse from a few acres by fencing it off, and the outcome after a few years was totally different from the surrounding area. If small changes can dramatically change the outcome, one has to wonder what clear cutting does. Del