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To: robert b furman who wrote (7914)	11/4/2003 10:16:52 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

They are in my backyard right now. Finally got one big enough to use, after about 10 years from planting. I need to start some more this winter. Most people around here use Fraser Firs or Blue Spruce. The NC mountains area grows a large portion of the trees sold in the East. Never planted 120 acres before. Everything my family has owned has mostly been hardwood forest, which we've allowed to regenerate itself after cutting. Good luck on thinning your stand. We've cut some on the old farm occassionally but haven't even touched the remote stuff in the mountains. We've got 300 mountain acres never been cut cause the timber company bids too darn low. Something about bad access road and costs. Did burn about 70 years ago I hear. Oak, Poplar trees 100 ft tall, straight trunks, can't put your arms around hardly any of them. Some White pine. Just whatever occured naturally. Very dense, no scrub except on the ridge tops. If we could get a fair price for thinning it and opening pastures, it would be a great place to begin a new Christmas tree farm. And a nice new gated "Bob Timberlake" development down the ridge offering 14 ten acre parcels for 400k to 800k. They'd like to be up the ridge, but could 'only' cough up 6k an acre in negotiations. That would be 6k for land and timber combined. And got a bit mad that we weren't interested?