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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (322926)	11/24/2002 10:55:44 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I can pretty much guarantee that the environmentalists' grandchildren will not be able to tell the difference between the planted trees and the ones emanating from random birdsh*t. We have some clearcuts over by Sitka that the Russians made when they still owned Alaska. And they are only about 140 years old. Give 'em another fifty years and it would take an expert to tell. Frankly, I doubt many could tell now, except for the historical record we've kept. I have inventory data on them in my office. See, the thing is trees usually live longer than people, which is probably good. People's ideas about what they want from trees changes every two or three years (months, weeks, what have you). By the time the trees grow up people have changed their minds about what they want maybe 150 times. The trees just keep plugging along. By the way, a school teacher who borrowed some forestry tools for a class project from me reported that her students persistently believed that they lived in an old growth forest. In fact, there isn't a single old-growth tree except maybe some hiding in places that were too hard to reach when the miners converted their brethren to mine timbers in the late 19th and early 20th century. Not a single miner bent his back to plant replacements -- but presto chango! Our kids believe they live in a pristine old-growth rainforest!