Re: OT Score One For The Tree Huggers


"bpnjensen" <bpnjensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >Wanna really screw up the tree-huggers? Propose legislation that would
> ensure that we will return the USA to the number of trees that were
> here
> before the continent was widely populated. After the 'huggers push that
>
> through, we get to cut down several million trees to return the number
> of trees to what it was<
>
> Thinks you. Before Europeans arrived, there was a virtually nonstop
> forest of billions of trees from the eastern seaboard to the
> Mississippi. In the west were forests where here are now parched
> grasslands and clearcuts by the millions of acres...including Alaska.
>
> Sure, we have some plantations where of trees grow...But old growth? A
> tiny fraction of what used to be. The "tree-huggers," as you put it,
> know this.
Perhaps these plantations will be "old growth" someday.


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