55 is a pyramidal number - the rainforest, the world and us

Hey piff - 2 western cedars and 1 eastern juniper form. I love my cedars, love 'em. They're my babies. I've got a small semi-circle of saskatoon berry bushes hiding the composter from the house. It's a little Canadian woodlot back there. Quite a change from the field of weeds and empty margarine containers that was back there when I bought the house.

ehBeth, That sounds neat!! Love to see some pix..... I have Red Cedars around the home here in Texas - one's trunk's about 2ft across. They grow wild here in between the honeysuckle and Pine trees. Oh, the BIG cedar is next to the Persimmon tree, about 60ft tall. I have to be Johnny on the spot to get a persimmon though - the animals love them.

Wow - I keep forgetting how big those could possibly get. They're still babies here. I go out and take heavy snow off of them

aktbird57 -

You and your 282 friends have supported 1,698,076.5 square feet!

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American Prairie habitat supported: 32,346.8 square feet.
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Your 282 friends have supported: (23,147.0)

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Morning,

Aw Kalicked.........

Hurray ya all!

For everyone listening to my ramblings about animal protection, plus clicking links when new laws proposed - I've good news. Remember my telling you about the "Downed Animal Act"? and asking for signatures on petitions, etc?

Well, we did it finally and the law is the law! Today at the shelter, <I can't give specifics> the law is ON THE SIDE OF THE ANIMALS! - <plus a few very cool co-workers!>

Am I a happy camper? You bet.

Sending a well deserved pat on the back to all you wildclickers!

That's great news, stradee!

Good news, Stradee. Congratulations!

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Sounds nice... I like it when trees get planted together. And it is sweet that you go and knock the big snow drifts off of 'em. Someday they'll be over a hundred feet tall. We have a couple of WRCedars between our house and the road -- they're good at blocking the view. They're only 40 feet tall or so, but already very good shelter for birds.

Western Red Cedar is one of the most common trees in Washington state. If you can recognize it and six other trees, you can recognize more than half (probably closer to 75%) of all the native trees in Western Washington. Those trees are: Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Western Hemlock, Black Alder, Pacific Dogwood, Big Leaf Maple, Madrona. (BTW, the trick to telling the difference between a big hemlock and a big fir... the top of a hemlock falls off to one side, the fir stands straight up.)

That's really great news Stradee!!

You deserve a huge medal of honor for you're services - I award you the Medal of Outstanding Merit for your Acerb definition.

I must go now - It's 22:30 hours and the outstanding series about a Korean U. S. Army Mobile Army Surgical Hospital - MASH - is on the TV - I have actually visited the real MASH 4077 in Korea - I lived in Seoul, Korea for one year. I did not connect with any of the nurses there - it was a really big tourist attraction at the time I was there. Oh - well, life is a very good memory.

Thanks Danon, but the credit due all ya all ardent zealots <smile>

Great Cedar tree stories! There's one cedar on the proptery next door, <I believe the name of the tree called "Incense Cedar"> Will research more and post the information tomorrow.

Thanks for the well wishes ~ you guys are terrific!

ehbeth

My e-mail address is leejoane and my server is charter.net

Please send updates. Thanks, Joan

Hi Joan Lee, Good to see you again.

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G'day all ~

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So, Stradee... Was it an incense cedar?

Piffka, yep

Neat. Does it smell good?

Did you know Incense-Cedar forests are found primarily in Oregon and California's Sierra/Nevada mountains? Well, neither did I till today.

The trees grow below 6600 ft. (2000 m) in Oregon, below 8000 ft. (2500 m) in California, and above 7500 ft. (2300 m) in Baja California, <and the one next door - 2100 ft >


Ranked as one of the most dimensionally stable wood species, Incense-cedar stands up to wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity without warping, checking or shrinking away from fasteners. It can be hand-tooled or machine-tooled to exact tolerances, and provides a smoother, more uniform surface than pine and other softwoods. Such properties make Incense-cedar an ideal material for the precision milling and machining processes of pencil-making as well as for outdoor siding, decking, moulding, interior, paneling, and landscape material. Even the bark is used as fuel for electric cogeneration facilities.

yep - after winter storms, during spring rains, and during the summer months - one of natures spectacular gifts is the aroma of cedar trees.

aktbird57 -
You and your 282 friends have supported 1,699,879.3 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 57,117.4 square feet.
You have supported: (34,135.1)
Your 282 friends have supported: (22,982.3)

American Prairie habitat supported: 32,346.8 square feet.
You have supported: (9,199.8)
Your 282 friends have supported: (23,147.0)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,610,415.2 square feet.
You have supported: (158,428.7)
Your 282 friends have supported: (1,451,986.5)

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Address noted, Joan Lee. I'm trying to set up a new folder with e-ddresses as most everything was vaporized with the disintegration of the old puter.