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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (26704)	12/21/2007 5:13:09 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217975

>>Not a good botanical analogy. The big tree prevents the life-giving sun from reaching the little trees, which wither and die.<< Consider the issue of ecological succession. When a forest is destroyed by fire, the first colonizing trees tend to be easily-dispersed fast-growing species like birch. As the birch matures, it creates a shady and moist environment where its own saplings fare quite poorly. But the saplings of "climax" species like spruce and hemlock can survive in stunted form under these conditions, and then put on a growth spurt when a mature tree dies and leaves a hole in the canopy. This process would be a better basis for Elmat's analogy.