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["Lisa Rollens" <rollens@fidnet.com>]

Hi Kathy, and yes, I was down on the Arkansas line yesterday and the oaks in 
a yard were similarly leafing out...finally.  I will agree that it sure 
looks bad when out in the woods surrounded by brown.  But I think all will 
be well...except the acorn crop.  My own seedling black locust are finally 
starting to show some green, too.  I am happy about that because I planted 
75 of them last year.  Lisa, in the MO Ozarks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: [permaculture] frozen trees--report of beginning of recovery 
inMissouri


> I went for a hike yesterday and the hills were brown for mile after mile, 
> with just dots of green here and there. I saw a mother redtail on her nest 
> in a huge old oak tree, and when she flew away I saw two downy heads 
> popping up. Like all the oaks, the tree had been frozen and was leafless. I 
> wondered if they were more susceptible to predators since they were more 
> visible with no leaves on the tree.
>    But today, in my yard, I see that almost all my big oak trees have some 
> little beginning of recovery. It's spotty, and they look better on the 
> lower branches than the upper ones. They do not look robust by any stretch 
> of the imagination, but most of them have at least some leaves the size of 
> squirrels' ears or larger. Has anyone else seen any recovery?  Kathy, USA 
> Midwest
>
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