Rog was saying ....
 
RB>Probably like most forest areas that fail to regenerate.
 
Nice to talk to you again, Rog.
 
Speaking about forest areas that fail to regenerate......
What about the areas that do?
 
Have you seen the Mt St Helens area after the big blow?
There are Douglass-fir trees 40 foot tall in the blast zone,
planted there by Weyerhaeuser reforestation crews only months
after the the blast. That was 16 years ago!
 
More than 18 million trees were planted on 45,500 acres.
This year, some of the trees in this most remarkable forest
will be thinned to provide more growing space for those that remain.
 
By September 1981, some 90 species, mostly birds, had returned to the
area. By 1985 the elk population were at pre-eruption levels.
Coho salmon also returned to the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers, both
devastated by mud and ash.
 
In several streams, fish production rates are equal to or greater
than those measured in other like-size streams in the Pacific Northwest.
 
The power of nature is incredible and very much in evidence here.
It teaches the awesome power of nature and equally important,
the power of forestry.
 
Cheers
 
Warren
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