I here ya juroara. couple of the links I posted are trying to reinstitute some of the trees. As;o some are trying to breed tree to make hybrids that are not effected by whatever is killing them.


Quote Originally Posted by BrotherDown View Post
I don't want to sound like a tree-hugger but trees are cool. When I was 5 and 6 years old, the daycare i was in took us to an apple orchid near-by often. It was the size of two blocks maybe. The entire area was surrounded by HUGE pine trees (or maybe it was because I was so tiny) and in the inside, there were rows and rows of big crab-apple and "normal" apple trees. There were so many thick branches on the pine trees you could climb up and up until you were almost to top. The apple trees were always filled with apples, except at the bottom because we'd always pick them.

I remember once, me and my friends saw a crab-apple the size of a normal apple, way up near the top of one of the trees. We got the tallest kid to sit on the shoulders of one of the day-care workers but we still couldn't reach it. So finally my friend picked up a rock and threw it at the apple. The apple came down but in pieces.
I wanted to share that because I just remembered it when i was thinking about this thread.[/b]
Cool story Brother. Tree hugging is cool. It just got somehow stereotyped with hippies. Nothing wrong wit hippies I guess either. They are just not the most productive folk. lol

I just moved in October. I have the biggest ash tree that I have ever scene. My dad and I measured it's circumference to be 17' in diameter. It is HUGE!
ash bore :!:

shit...I mean circumference.