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That is excellent! Thanks Matt

Problem is, goats are not botanists. I have a diverse woodland with rare shrubs intermixed with crap-ass invasives. Until they can tell the difference I will have to weed it by hand. Yeah definitely sounds like it's not a situation for goats. They don't exactly seem to have "discriminating tas...

Just think, in the future people could be saying they are going to "measure Kouta's Bell Bottom". The comic misunderstandings alone would be worth it.

Wow, it pretty low down off the main crest. If I had to guess where the road would be taken out by landslides, it would be up near the crest. Those schists are so prone to failing.

Well, the Appalachians are very, very slow rising (but not in elevation) because of isostatic rebound because of erosion.

pitsandmounds wrote:Also, here's the reference link for the Indiana HWA confirmation last year . .

That is weird. It completely jumped over Ohio/Michigan. I find what the DNR says odd because I don't think it has been found in Michigan yet.

Unlike Don, I am an unbiased observer, but I would also put in a vote for the North Rim. A few years ago I was there on Memorial Day weekend (I think?) and went backpacking in the Ponderosa Pine forest on the Walhalla Plateau. Nice trees, private canyon views! The ranger I got the permit from said I...

Larry Tucei wrote:Kouta, Will Blozan saw this tree and measured it we were all like wow!!! 132' was the height. Larry

132 ft! Wow is right. I think that has the biggest I have ever seen beat by at least 75 ft.

Very nice! That has to be one of the most western outposts of Hemlock and White Pine in the tallgrass/central tillplains. I imagine Wisconsin/Iowa in the driftless area would have to be the next place you would find those two species (naturally).

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