On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:52:16 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

It appears to me that we have a mistaken image of what the landscape
looked
like in the US, in regions that were farmed. The farmers cut those suckers
down in all directions. I can't speak for other areas, but here in the
most
densely populated part of the country there are many more trees today than
there were even 200 years ago.

It wasn't just the farmers. During the timber boom my part of Michigan
was
clear cut. All the trees I see except for at Hartwick Pines are 'new'
trees.

I remember, from when I lived in Michigan. My boss bought a half-section of
property in the UP just because it contained 19 acres of old-growth white
cedar. Photos and paintings from a century ago showed that the land was
virtually bald.

He got "old growth", eh? heh heh heh

He can start buying "carbon credits" now. heh heh heh

--
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry David Thoreau