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I like the outdoors and I especially enjoyed fishing and camping on the west coast in old growth.
I've also chained down a fair amount of big trees.

Selective logging beats the hell out of clear cut

But there's something about an unspoiled wilderness. Need to keep some.

We have a few spots of old growth here in the Appalachians. I've spent many hours over a lifetime among those trees. Maybe it's just me, but I get an odd feeling of timelessness when I'm among those ancient living things ... some are as old as the Republic. I cannot imagine what it must ahve been like to still have the ancient gigantic Chesnuts that our ancestors witnessed. There were boards in my Grandfather's old home place (circa 1830's) two feet wide with a bead on both edges, out of old chesnut, just pegged up as paneling!

America has more trees and deer now then it did when my ancestors arrived one cold November day met by other ancestors here first for over 10000 years.

More Buffalo then in 1900.

They used to use rag content in paper whereas now it is mostly wood pulp paper.

America has an immense % of National and State parks, as well as City parks compared to other nations.

Vanderbuilt brought a German forestor over to start the Pisgal National forests in w-NC and TN.

Cradle of forestry is in Pisgah, between Horseshoe and Brevard NC.

Visit Asheville NC and see Biltmore House, Estate, Dairy and Wineries.

I fought with my building construction engineer builder brother and my bank to cut as few trees as possible on my five acres.

Only cut one BIG oak; had dogwood trees arched over on the my upper drive.

(used flexible green electrical wire to carefully interlace the dogwood trees together above my rock drive)

All natural growth except for the small bit of grass I had to plant to satisfy the bank and cover the septic tank, room for a clothesline, some room for a doghouse, and to throw a football.

Everyone else went to the forests to see the beauty.

I lived in it.

When I wanted to see grass I drove by the golf courses!