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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (184093)	10/2/2009 11:36:23 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

Thanks, Oral. Your grandfather's recollection of the pine forests mirrors an observation made by a tour guide we had on a trip through a place called "Dogwood Canyon" down by Branson Missouri. It's a 3000 acre conservation easement on property owned by the founder of Bass Pro Shops who created a tourist attraction out of it by building paved travelways for bicycles, Segues, and towed trams like the one we rode in. They converted a sluggish muddy stream into a pristine trout stream by building stone weirs to oxygenate the water, and otherwise bridging the stream by wonderful stonework bridges and other features. It was really quite an enjoyable place, although I noticed few things I would do differently, like not mixing longhorn cattle with elk, deer and bison, and allowing the bull elk to fight as is their habit in the fall instead of sequestering them. The tour guide explained that the diverse mixed hardwood forest was once a pinewoods devastated by clearcutting. I challenged his assertion and pointed out that it was not clearcutting that caused any devastation, but improper logging. I explained that clearcutting is a 'regeneration system' designed to replace one forest with another. If at the time it had been thought important to replace pine with pine, that could have been done. The guide was good-natured about this and made a joke about 'improper logging' for the rest of the tour. I hope he read up on the matter and changed his shtick for future tours. Those closed-canopy stands like you describe are really quite charming in their own way. It's almost like a different universe.