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When the wind starts howling a person really appreciates having hills and trees. I think the cows appreciate it too :unsure:
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Silver said:
When the wind starts howling a person really appreciates having hills and trees. I think the cows appreciate it too :unsure:
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Definitely!! There is nothing like trees for protection.

In OK a power company is removing all our friends trees. It's unnecessary. They are putting in overhead power line and they have an old easement, so apparently there is nothing that can be done about it. They have bulldozed the trees all along the road. Big. Old. Trees. For miles. It's sickening. Our friends are devastated. Those trees did so much good. Shade. Sound barrier. Protection. Now gone. 🥹
We have lived where there weren't many trees so we don't understand how anyone could justify cutting down 100-year old beautiful Ponderosa and Oak trees.
 
Faster horses said:
Definitely!! There is nothing like trees for protection.

In OK a power company is removing all our friends trees. It's unnecessary. They are putting in overhead power line and they have an old easement, so apparently there is nothing that can be done about it. They have bulldozed the trees all along the road. Big. Old. Trees. For miles. It's sickening. Our friends are devastated. Those trees did so much good. Shade. Sound barrier. Protection. Now gone. 🥹
We have lived where there weren't many trees so we don't understand how anyone could justify cutting down 100-year old beautiful Ponderosa and Oak trees.
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That's heartbreaking. We have been waging war on trees on this place since 1952, but we still respect them and reap the benefits of them in the right places.
 
People up the road bought some land with shelter belt trees and 40 foot tall pine trees around the yard All gone. They asked me if I was one of the people mad at them.
I told them no it was their land but I was melancholy about the yard trees as I had many memories driving past and the one lady would always give a big wave, When her mother in law lived there we stopped to get milk off the Silver woods truck stopped there. Old Merv had ripped the crotch out of his pants and Mrs. Sawin was sewing them up for him.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
People up the road bought some land with shelter belt trees and 40 foot tall pine trees around the yard All gone. They asked me if I was one of the people mad at them.
I told them no it was their land but I was melancholy about the yard trees as I had many memories driving past and the one lady would always give a big wave, When her mother in law lived there we stopped to get milk off the Silver woods truck stopped there. Old Merv had ripped the crotch out of his pants and Mrs. Sawin was sewing them up for him.
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Sad what people do. Much is replaceable, but trees...take years, especially in the arid West.
 
Trees are a major investment in time and money here but when they do make it, they are worth every penny. We've all been trying to grow yard trees and have almost decided only God and birds can grow them.
 
We have a brushy foothill place and often have a hard time fully appreciating all the trees! We are able to range calve and let the cows pick out the thickets to bed with straw when it snows. A neighbor and I partnered up to buy a neighboring parcel. I took the brushy hillside pasture with a trail that connects up a couple of my land parcels, the neighbor got the hay fields. I was lamenting to the banker that the neighbor got the "good stuff" and we bought the "crap", He replied that that rough ground was worth way more than the crop land because of it's "recreation potential" ! That seems wrong on so many levels!
 
The only tree on my place are cottonwoods along the river. The beavers seem determined to rid the world of them. There are still some juniper patches on the hill but getting up there to feed would be an issue. And the fences are all gone from the fire.
 
webfoot said:
The only tree on my place are cottonwoods along the river. The beavers seem determined to rid the world of them. There are still some juniper patches on the hill but getting up there to feed would be an issue. And the fences are all gone from the fire.
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Elms are about the only trees that will grow along the creeks here.Native Pecan trees in some places.Other than that the Mesquites abound with vigor.Cedars grow in the higher,rougher country.Where the Mesquites and Cedars fight with each other over territory makes for some really good deer hunting
 

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