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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (306470)	5/23/2009 9:17:47 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793750

There are stories of early white settlers here being able to easily ride a hundred miles through the virgin white pine forest because there was no underbrush.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (306470)	5/23/2009 10:13:11 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793750

I have pines in my yard, and they may kill me yet, although I cut one off at the ankles and kill their babies to keep them from multiplying. Their biggest faults are the cones, which take two years to grow and multiple pick-ups by the poor landowner. The needles do take a long time to rot away and they do not add materially to the fertility of soil like many hardwoods. I have a bone to pick with Seattle area politicos who designated my area as an urban growth area. That means I'm subject to the clean air act, so instead of burning my needles and cones twice a year I have to load them up and haul them to a landfill, as the local "chipper day" has lost its grant money. The government always knows how people should live. It would rather make them toe the line rather than teaching them how to get along by themselves. I would have done that for them voluntarily by teaching people how to burn hot and fast so their needle and cone burns didn't become smudge pots. People are still doing it, by the way. I can smell smoke sometimes in the morning when I wake up. Which was a violation of burning practice when it was legal. All smokes had to be out by sundown, and mine always were.