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To: combjelly who wrote (340775)	6/19/2007 8:39:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578027

Before we moved to BCS, we had a house on 2 acres just outside the Woodlands. It had been harvested for paper production sometime in the late 1970s and left to regrow naturally. Now the predominant pine in the area is loblolly, and loblollies get big. Not as tall as a Sequoia of course, but it gets up there at well over 100 feet. So, our lot was covered with trees that were 40-60 foot tall and 3, maybe 4 inches in diameter. And packed tightly. It was hazardous to walk among them, some had died because they couldn't get enough light and pieces were always falling down. If you cleared an area, the trees on the margin would bend over, sometimes touching the ground after they lost their support. Dang! That's tightly packed. It must approximate a jungle in terms of spacing. Walking through an old growth forest is like visiting midlothian or some other scifi fairyland........old trees have fallen and are covered with moss and flowers; new trees are growing out of the fallen trees; birds and small animals are everywhere. And there is the canopy overhead filtering the sun.....keeping it cool. Its really nice.