Larry-- Around here, many of the old pine stumps didn't survive because people over the years have dug into them for "fat pine" or "lighter pine" wood--the heartwood, richly soaked in pine resin, is coveted for starting fires. Of course, across much of the longleaf pine belt, the stumps were pulled after logging so that they could extract the resin for the naval stores industry... I suppose the relatively frequent fires we have in the pine forests of the South also consumed their fair share of old stumps.
Don Bragg -----Original Message----- From: Larry <[email protected]> To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 12:53 pm Subject: [ENTS] Re: Douglas Co., Wisconsin Old White Pine Trees and Stumps Don, Even in death trees still hold lots of beauty, those stumps ere so awesome. Down home the stumps don't remain like that. Larry -- astern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org end email to [email protected] isit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en o unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
