Jules Troy Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Brant you mean I missed my calling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I saw what the capitalists did to the Blue Ridge mountain region in the late 19th and early 20th century. Barely a tree left standing. Bob,Horseshit.I was born in Wise County, Virginia.Coal mining country.I don't recall any lack of trees. Hell, that's all we had all around us.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 No contradiction here; much of Appalachia has come back from the destructive mining and logging practices of a century or more ago and probably looks better than untouched wilds would. Franklin Toker's Fallingwater Rising is a good source on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Brant you mean I missed my calling? Just call me "Tim." You're lucky you got one.--Brantpoetry?--I don't need no stinkin' poetry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 The folks filming The Last of the Mohicans couldn't believe they weren't surrounded by old growth forest.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 The folks filming The Last of the Mohicans couldn't believe they weren't surrounded by old growth forest.--BrantThe replanting of the Blue Ridge was started under the FDR Administration. The CCC did a lot of work on that. The forest has not been clear cut since 1934 and is almost back to primary phase (forest prior to lumbering).The photos of the Blue Ridge reduced almost to bare soil by clear cutting is enough to make a non-sentimental person such as I weep and gnash his teeth. It was wicked and wrong to clear cut. One can harvest lumber without destroying the entire forest.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Imagine that.A good hunk of eight different USA states was deforested and laid barren and FDR brought it all back to life in a few short years.And I grew up in the middle of that mountain range and never even heard about it. FDR was one hell of a president. Come on folks. Some devastation, OK. But does anyone have any idea about the size of that mountain range?As a kid, I hated when my folks took the Blue Ridge Parkway (the part connected called Skyline Drive) because there was nothing but trees--lots and lots and lots of trees--and a winding road that never ended.Incidentally, I remember my folks and aunts and uncles talking about the FDR construction projects. They called them "make work" jobs, by which they meant work that did not need to be done, but FDR was looking out for them. That was their perception.I don't recall anyone lamenting a lack of a tree. Whenever we had to pee, there was always one around. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 LOL at "Tim" . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Nice limerick - perfect for St. Pat's Day!I have some completely obscene ones.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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