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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Last night I looked online and found that any ranch property can be 
investigated by a potential buyer for its "carrying capacity" expressed 
in acres per animal unit (ac. / a. u.).  In fact, why bother with 
realtors when you can type the word "ac." AND the phrase "a. u." into 
Google and have instant access to thousands of ads for ranch properties?

It's possible that all these people are liars, like the government 
researchers who prepared the Coos County Soil Survey.  If not, then 
maybe Lynda can just save us all some time and tell us what her carrying 
capacity for nonirrigated grazing is, or the average for the countless 
other ranches she's familiar with, and we can all compare it to what we 
have at our own places.  I would think that now that she's a great land 
baroness, she would know how to describe her land in terms that ranchers 
use.  Lies take many paragraphs of anecdotes, but the truth just takes 
just one little floating-point quantity to reveal.

Bill
S. Oregon coast