Good Article On Indescriminate Tree Planting

[Major Tom]

Here in Iowa along the Mississippi River there used to be very rich farm land. The river's Spring floods would put new layers of good soil over the land. Then along came the levees which blocked the Spring floods. Now those lands have to use chemicals to grow anything. Streams that run thru farmland carry pesticide runoff to the river further polluting it! And, Iowa had huge forests up till the early to mid 1860s. Mostly hickory, oak and walnut.

[Vern Humphrey]

When I was a boy, I used to ride all through the Ozarks. I would find stumps four feet in diameter or more. What a forest that would have been!

In our little local hospital there are framed photographs lining the halls. One of them shows a mule-drawn timber wagon, fully loaded -- with a single log!