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To: Ish who wrote (118548)	7/15/2006 8:38:24 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That sounds like a good plan. Soil fertility is one component of tree growth, so it is not surprising your friend got good growth on the areas where he applied sludge. Trees don't get into the food supply either, whereas corn and other crops do. I don't know how well they process out whatever toxic materials remain in sludge. Dense tree growth doesn't make them grow upward any faster, but keeps lateral branching down. In a dense stand the terminal leader keeps growing up but the laterals die off. That keeps the trees from creating a lot of knots and contorted wood growth, so veneer and clear lumber is the result, given time. When total wood volume is the objective, you can regulate the density to maximize total wood growth. Quality goes down, but volume goes up under that scenario.