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Re: [RC] Headwaters Ride and old growth - rides2far@xxxxxxxxThere are for more trees in the U.S. now than at the turn of the century, The deer population is much higher too. Heck, we're over run with wild turkeys round here these days. I've seen a 1920 photo of my neighborhood and you can see over a mile. So weird to see roads that I know are over there but now the view is blocked every 20 feet by *another* tree. If you don't bushhog a field yearly round here you have a forest in just a couple of years. Even buildings are getting more temporary. A huge barn that my grandfather built by himself recently burned thanks to a meth lab that someone had set up inside (the farm had been deserted). It's really sad, more and more of our old buildings are going that way. You sure don't go exploring round ol' homesteads around here like you used to could. Angie How do they account for regeneration after a terrible natural disaster? Volcano eruption such as Mt. St. Helens? Wind storms? Floods? In our part of the country, the redwoods were stripped, between 1870 and the early 1900s. I have antique photos to prove it. Now, the same areas are so heavily forested that they are very wild. Humans are arrogant to think that they have control over Nature, either to devastate or to restore. Nature has a way of healing itself quite nicely. Sometimes it takes a little longer........and in this day and age of instant gratification, some people aren't willing to wait.
Barbara
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