To: Snowshoe who wrote (1492 ) 10/7/2001 2:44:42 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to There are a few idiots with guns around here too ... i have favourite places in the woods, in one about 1988 i cleaned out alder and hemlock around a few firs that were then widely spaced, and planted 1-0 plugs in the ground opened around them the next February .... rich soil, well drained but with water within reach of roots until August, they were well established and growing like stink by the mid-90s ... so i'd go visit them periodically, once a year minimum, drive the skidder up to the start of the plateau they're on and eat lunch, then wander around through them whacking weeds, alder mostly, fir needs the the light, can't compete for it with alder in the first years ... right at the first ones that come into sight is a tall fir, probably twenty-five metres with a dbh [diameter at breast height] of thirty centimetres [12in] when i thinned the place ... a sight to see, very healthy and putting on meat at a great rate once it had the light and root space, the first view of it framed by the sides of a valley in the distance ... and by '96 all around it were my planted firs, average height maybe four metres and healthy .... the best of the best on the whole tree farmdailynews.yahoo.com
