[lurked_for_a_decade]

About a decade ago, I went home to visit my family. About a mile from my childhood home and across the street from the middle school I attended was a large environmental protest in progress. The “environmentalists” were all carrying signs and throwing fits about saving “old growth” forests. I got a big laugh out of their notion of “old growth”

Forty years earlier, the old growth forest was an old fallow field that hadn’t been touched in years because the owner was to old to manage it. Every old growth tree that they so desperately wanted to save was probably less than 30 years old.

If that field was old growth I must have been ancient in comparison.

I told a few of the protesters and they said I was “stupid”!

(LOL)

[SJackson]

I got a big laugh out of their notion of “old growth”... Forty years earlier, the old growth forest was an old fallow field that hadn’t been touched in years because the owner was to old to manage it.

I've a few acquaintances who have "restored" the "prairie". I ask whether to after the first clear cutting or second. And where are the bison?