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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I'd think housing prices will affect land prices.

Only when the land is destined to become 
subdivisions. The land desired by homesteaders is rougher and more rural.

Ken Johnson and Glen Fuguitt are demographers 
perhaps most informed about this subject in 
America. Here is something of theirs:


Résumé / Abstract

During the past several decades, rural America 
has experienced turbulent demographic change. We 
examine rural age-specific migration data for 
1950 to 1995 to ascertain whether the numerous 
economic, social, and technological factors 
buffeting nonmetropolitan America have altered 
migration patterns across age groups and types of 
counties. Both continuity and change are evident 
in the analysis. We find differentiation in the 
migration profiles of certain specialized types 
of rural counties, as well as temporal 
variability from decade to decade. No clear 
longitudinal trend in migration patterns is 
present, however. In fact, an underlying 
continuity in age-specific trends has endured through good times and bad

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We probably have over a hundred oak here and heaven only knows how many in
the glen we drive through to get here.  Right outside our little fenced yard
around the house is a really old black oak.  We seem to have about 3 pair
living either on our place or on the property next door.  They all like to
congregate in this old oak at some point each day.  I can usually tell when
they arrive because our multi-linguistic stellar jay tells the world about
it.

The jay because multi-linguistic this spring in an attempt, I think, to keep
the various woodpeckers away and, in particular, the pileated pairs and
their kids.  At first we thought the hawks were dazed and confused because
they don't usually scream and whistle except when they are flying but this
very clearly screaming and whistling redtail hawk was sitting in the crocked
Doug Fir about 50 feet from the house.  As the woodpeckers would come
floating out of the stand of trees next to the driveway, the "hawk" would
scream and the woodpeckers would turn around and head back into the grove
where a hawk wouldn't be able to manuver.

We watched this for a week or two and then we noticed that the woodpeckers
didn't pay any attention to our "hawk" and his screaming.  So we decide to
go take a look figuring that maybe we had an injured bird up the tree.  When
we got up next to the tree, out swoops this jay.  Who'd a thought <g>

So now the woodpeckers are about done cleaning up the oak for this year but
they are working on the rest of the trees out front.  It is fun to watch as
they now quickly manuver from one tree to another with their heads cocked
over to one side as they watch to see if a real hawk is out there or if it
our noisy jay trying to scare them off.  When the jay figures out the hawk
scream isn't working then he starts in squawking and buzzing them trying to
run them off.  They are not impressed!

Lynda
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From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


> The youngster I saw this morning will have to move on. Pileated
> pairs, which are strongly monogamous, presumed mated for life,
> require from 127 to 384 acres of territory here in Missouri,
> depending on forest density. In northeastern and western Oregon,
> studies found they need over a thousand acres. Populations have
> increased in the last few decades especially in the eastern half of
> the country due to old farmland reverting to forest. They keep the
> same home territory but make a new nest cavity each year, so need an
> ample supply of large trees suitable for major excavation. No more
> than one brood per year of one to eight naked kids are produced. I
> feel fortunate that they like it here at Heartwood.
>
>
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