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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jyl
I am always puzzled why developers will take wooded land, cut down every last tree and twig, build their houses, and then plant puny little saplings.
I can understand it if they are putting up a dense neighborhood of over-sized houses jammed together with no room for anything but a sapling.
But if they are building normal size houses on normal size lots, why not leave some big healthy trees and build around them? The trees will add value to the finished homes.
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BECAUSE...if you merely thin old growth forest, you are removing a kind of built in wind protection. I'm not sure if this holds with all types of trees, but with Douglas fir? Leave 3 or 4 trees surrounding the house while cutting others away, and you will see them ON the house in the first severe wind storm.
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