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To: Let's Roll
Glad I didn't have to put a "/sarc" tag on it.

I worked two summers as a firefighter for the State of California. Our patrols took us through commercial tree farms, and I learned a great deal from talking to them. For example, for every mature tree they fell, they plant seven.

35 posted on 04/15/2016 9:33:37 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not

I saw a documentary on something similar a couple years ago. A tree plantation for trees to make paper had a 10 year cycle. Separate groups of trees were planted each year for 10 years. So at the end of 10 years you had 10yo trees, 9 yo trees etc.

In the 10th year when the 10 yo trees had reached maturity, they were harvested. Whatever kind of tree it was they were tall and straight and so could be planted in rows to simplify harvest. Once they were harvested seedlings were planted on the far side of the one year old trees.

IIRC the space occupied by the recently harvested trees was left empty so that next year equipment had room to come in and harvest the current 9 yo trees. And so on and so on.

Talk about renewable - there was always product in the system. Central planning doesn’t create these systems. Businesses do - if left alone. (I didn’t do a very good job of describing it but seeing it in operation was very cool.) Oh and birds and bunnies were welcome on the rows that weren’t being harvested.


38 posted on 04/15/2016 10:02:24 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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