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It is funny in that so many people think humans just cut down trees and put up parking lots and buildings. This part of the world was mostly open grasslands the 1880s. After the land run, the ground was cut up into sections, and 1/4 sections and further 1/4s and 1/2s. In the 1940s and 1950s the aerial photos show few trees, and lots of open areas of farms and ranches.
Now the ground is covered with trees. Humans like trees. Except female cottonwood trees that shed cotton or many of the other messy trees. The Bradford Pear is popular with builders because they grow fast, and can look pretty. They have a bloom in the spring that flat stinks like cat pee, then they drop the flowers, and the husks of the buds, the pears are little pea size things that few birds will eat so they drop to the ground, and rot and make a sticky mess, and then the stems of the pears drop, then the leaves drop. They are a messy tree, and very brittle and wind or ice just eats them up. The birds that do eat the pears spread them like a weed.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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