Posted on 09/02/2015 10:56:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
“”“it’s said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground,”””
I don’t believe that for a minute. There was nobody trying to stop forest fires back then, nobody managing any preserves either.
You also bought 8 trees in the past 4 years?
Seems I’ve heard that also, there were less trees 1000’s of years ago than now. That is because back then forest fires just kept burning, now we put them out.
Teaching Math In 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 1990:
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living?
(Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)
--From a passed around e-mail
Look at pictures of civil war battlefields and look at the same places today, big difference. Yeah in the USA Eastern seaboard there are a lot more trees.
Yes, Pecan, peach, apple, pear, fig and some shade trees..................
Lucky you to live in what sounds like a nice ‘country’ setting. I’m stuck here in miserable New York City.
Oh, THOSE trees! We had classified them as shrubbery and spontaneous topiary outgrowths.
Old growth forests don’t take in much CO2, so since we have loads more trees than we thought, we should (to save the Environment, dontcha know) start a MASSIVE old forest cutdown program. If the enviros were honest, thats what would happen, oh that and Nuclear Now... but.. mostly crickets from the left.
So it looks like the eco-Idiots were wrongo again. Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Just a residential neighborhood, unincorporated, with a large corner lot and room for a few good trees. Had to cut down several old trees and hurricane fodder..................
B-b-but where would the spotted owls live?????...............
Impossible! The rain forests all disappeared years ago, at the rate they said they were being cut down!
It’s the TREE’S, oh my god, Global warming, it’s the TREES!
The above statement is a spin that supercomputers modeling climate change spit out garbage when they are fed garbage.
I must have at least 2,000 trees or so on my 20 acres. There are new ones every year, and if I didn’t mow the lawn, the lawn would be forest.
I have 5 enormous pecan trees I cannot collect all the nuts from—I used to have an old fella come round every Fall to collect them but he passed. Now I might pick up a bucket or two for myself but the rest are for the squirrels, dogs (yes my dogs LOVE pecans and squirrels, it’s like a twofer for them) or they grow into seedlings. I mow hundreds each year.
Tree huggers really need to get busy or a lot of trees will never get a hug.
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