[Ditto]

Bump.

[Axenolith]

Excellent article Joe.

[taxcontrol]

So much for doomsday statements by radical environmentalists ...

BLASPHAMY - BURN THE HERATIC!!! [/sarcasm]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I live near a dreaded wood mill. I saw coal trains going down the tracks, and said, "Man oh man. This wonderful forest land is doomed. They will cut it all down, and pollute the air with soot." [I was still a liberal at the time.]

I ended up working there. They don't use coal. They are powered by the BARK off the trees! And the soot is thoroughly filtered out of the air. Only CO2 'pollution'. You can hear frogs in the run-off pond. No water pollution. They only need new growth trees. No old growth trees. They train their employees more than is needed, because they want the local area to have a skilled labor pool. They even have a loan program to purchase computers. My county is as green as ever. Too green. We need more jobs. Freegards....

[r9etb]

There's more to the story about all that abandoned farmland, which has become reforested.

The reason it became abandoned is that there was no market for the crops that were grown on it. There was no need for huge amounts of hay or oats for the city horses. There was no need for hay or oats for farm horses.

And of course, the horses were no longer needed because of the advent of the internal combustion engine.

The East has reforested, and is more ecologically diverse, because of the car.

Algore, call your shrink.

[Rebel-without-a-pause]

I live in south Georgia and you would think that our state's largest income would come from agriculture. Well it does. But it is forestry, not growing cotton. I live on a mini-farm (15 acres) on which I planted pine trees after I retired from the Navy in 1989. They are now 12 years old and sucking up CO2 like you wouldn't believe. I have a red oak in my yard that it would take three people to join hands and reach around. I am looking out my window as I type this and I count 15 Cardinals, 2 gray squirrels, 2 ringnecked turtle doves and 1 bird I can't identify. Yes, life is good here in the deforested land of the free. Eat your heart out environmentalists.

[Intimidator]

Excellent article. As an avid hunter I have seen within my lifetime the incredible comeback that wildlife has made.

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