A lot of variety here, very interesting stuff.
Any idea what it is?
The first year I worked for BLM We were surveying a property line when we came across an area of forest that was populated mostly in white fir running around 2-3 ft. DBH. Scattered throughout the stand every couple of hundred feet there were Douglas Firs running 6-9 ft. DBH. At the end of the day, we were hiking back to the truck when we ran into a forester who was laying out a timber sale. We mentioned that beautiful stand of giant old trees. His response was "that will be a bunch off giant old stumps when I'm done." That was kind of sad, but such was the nature of public land forest management back in the 80s.
Sounds like a guy I met back in about 1980 or so at The Brookings Institute. He was some sort of muckity-muck in the Army Corp who said he was about to retire because there were no more streams and rivers to straighten and channelize. He seemed rather depressed, and I don't know if that was because of what he had helped accomplish or the fact that there was nothing left to do. I as too young to have the courage to ask him straight out.
