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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Nov 20, 2006
Description:
It always astonishes me that the part of the United States that has been settled longest by Europeans, with their iron axes and saws, looks so heavily wooded from the air.
Richmond Virginia straddles the fall line. We're looking NNW here, from about 15 miles south, near the confluence of the James and the Appomattox Rivers. The Deepwater Terminal seaport is at its eastern end, and close by is Church Hill, where Patrick Henry said, 'I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!'
Date Taken:
Nov 20, 2006
Place Taken:
Central Virginia
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Dan Nickens - Nov 21,2006
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I'll bet old Patrick never envisioned the course that you took this day, Don. As for the old trees, there is a forest on the James Madison Estate in central Virginia that is an undisturbed 400 acres of trees. (See <a href="http://www.primalnature.org/examples.html">www.primalnature.org/examples.html</a> for other examples.)
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Don Maxwell - Nov 21,2006
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Thanks, Dan. I've never seen a truly virgin forest in the US, but have been in them in West Africa. There, the leaf canopy was essentially solid, and there was almost no undergrowth--just huge tree trunks, spaced so far apart that trekking through the forest was like walking among pillars--not hacking through jungle. Apparently, that's what the eastern hardwood forests were like here before the Europeans started cutting them. Fenimore Cooper's Deerslayer novels are set in forests like that. I don't think they exist here any more, and they won't long in Africa, either.
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Dave Lima - Nov 21,2006
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Yeah, I just drove to southern Ohio on the weekend, talk about trees! and lots of deer too!
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