{"id":1627,"date":"2009-11-23T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:01:26","slug":"healing-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/healing-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, when I hired John Sutherland and his Bull Hog, I was thankful that the machine didn’t scar the landscape any more than it did. The work he did was immensely helpful, because, for the first time, I could orient myself on the property and not be lost in thickets of briars and multiflora rose. Still, there was an awful lot of debris.<\/p>\n

\"Bull<\/p>\n

It isn’t easy to see in this picture, but there are three blue paint marks on the large oak on the right side of the picture. That was for the benefit of a logger who, after the marks were made, decided that there wasn’t enough marketable timber on the property to make it worth his while. That has turned out to be a blessing, because I rather like some of those twisted and unusually shaped trees!<\/p>\n

Here is pretty much the same route, taken last week:<\/p>\n

\"Bull<\/p>\n

The fallen leaves are such a pretty carpet, aren’t they? If you didn’t know better, you’d never know that a machine had made this path, would you? The path made for a very nice stroll through the woods – no downed trees in the way to trip over and no thickets of multiflora rose to steer clear of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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