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To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)	7/24/2013 6:26:47 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 125151

It's been a good half century for trees in N. America. That's a good thing IMO. The folks in the Mediterranean and Middle east cut every dam tree down 2500-3000 years ago and they never grew back.

To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)	7/24/2013 6:41:12 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 125151

yeah but you can't collect taxes form those revolutionary trees. man you sukk at being a democrat. just got my rain tax bill. 88 bucks

To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)	7/24/2013 7:19:29 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 125151

Probably and there are a lot of factors such as aggressive tree planting, better agriculture, fewer horses, and less reliance on wood as fuel. more trees growing in the continental US now than existed at the time of the Revolutionary War * * *

To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)	7/24/2013 9:11:55 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 125151

That is probably true, because back then a LOT of land was cleared to grow feed for horses--the main method of transportation. Prior to European incursion, Indians grew a lot of corn and other crops. All this land reverted to trees. When Eisenhower was president there was a big push for a "land bank" program, in which farmers were subsidized to NOT grow crops, thereby keeping the price up. All this land reverted to trees too. I've personally sampled many of them in New York and Ohio. I can't tell you the forests I've sampled that had stone fences running through them. Apple orchards and house ruins out in the middle of the woods. All this was cleared land at one point.

To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)	7/25/2013 4:08:49 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Recommended By ManyMoose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 125151

more trees growing in the continental US now than existed at the time of the Revolutionary War... Also more game, sans the large carnivores. Interesting story about the trees. Loosely concurrent with Columbus's jaunt, technological advances were allowing a population spike in the British Isles. The peasantry wanted wood to keep warm and the Crown needed huge trees to expand the naval fleet. The Crown made it a capital offense to cut large oaks. That led to to the necessity of learning to pump mines to access coal, quite a story in its own right. So the first whites arrived here, saw the Indians kept the landscape burned to provide browse and easier hunting. They carried lessons from home about the value of timber and changed long existing practice. When Longfellow wrote about the forests primeval he was unaware they were only about a century and a half old.