From: dont.even@bother.com   
      
   Heyall.   
   Well the oaks are dying; seems like half of everything else too.   
   Nobody's said as much but I was guessing emerald borer beetle. Being a   
   woman I can't seem to let things go in a waft of shades of gray; gotta   
   be black or white for sanity's sake.   
      
   So much tupelo that apparently are no good to anyone beside apiarists in   
   Georgia.   
      
   Forester has offered up for bid 100s of oaks & maple. And maybe even   
   what could be my last aspen and cherry birch, AFAIK. (They can have 'em   
   if they're goners anyway.)   
      
   I was thinking about trying to replace things I've not seen on that   
   property for way too many years. Should I give up & let nature have its   
   way, or would it do any good to try something...old?   
      
   Like butternut, sassafras, or maybe try to plant more aspen or cherry   
   birch somewhere on the other side of the property. Serviceberry, I   
   believe, used to inhabit some of the land. White dogwood used to dot all   
   the hillsides too, IIRC. Some pines...was too young then to know them   
   well but, maybe with the proper spore offerings? Something they might   
   like to cohabitate with, mychorhizally speaking. Or how about a truffle   
   grove?   
      
   But I don't wanna stop at trees...there were sweetferns too. Anyone   
   who's old enough to remember that green-colored "herbal essence" shampoo   
   knows the fragrance of those. Heady! I won't bore you further with the   
   list of plant oddities & rarities but, I'd welcome some suggestions as   
   to what I might could do kind of prod things along after the trees are   
   removed. (I'm saving all the trees that surround the immediate lodge, so   
   tough toenails there.)   
      
   My primary focus (beside my own selfish purposes) are to help maintain   
   the wildlife there. I'd love to hear the Whippoorwills again. The   
   lowbush blueberries will survive, as well the mountain laurel.   
      
   Sorry so verbose.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)