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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I looked at your pictures, bev.  'too bad about the trees,; but you also have 
a problem with your compass.  East is east, and west is west, whether you 
look forward or back :-) ...........bobford

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--- On Fri, 11/21/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] Pine beetle damage
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:46 AM
> I have posted the pictures I took this afternoon of the
> damage pine
> beetles have done to my land and trees.  You may need to
> click on the
> picture for detail due to the time of dayI'm trying to
> think of this as
> yet another natural part of a changing ecosystem, but it is
> hard,
> because I know what it looked like 10 years ago, and like
> the chestnut
> blight, I don't think these pine beetles are
> indigenous.  Chestnuts
> were, but are no more.  Pines were, but are vanishing fast.
> It is a domino effect of change...Beetles kill the tree,
> storms fell
> tree, tree falls on other trees, opening widens and allow
> wind to blow
> down even more trees.  There is a spot near the top of the
> hill, where
> the little saplings are almost waist high, a sign that the
> forest is
> regenerating, but with hickories, oaks, poplar, and
> sweetgum, not pine.
> 
> http://www.myspace.com/tervetuloa13   
> I put all the pictures in the Misc Album, including the
> little pine tree
> where the buck rubbed.  Tomorrow,I'm going to take some
> antlers with me.
> 
> Bev
> -- 
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger.
> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
> 
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