Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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CycloneErik
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That's the theory.
Just gotta go through 2-3 specialists after waiting for 6 months to not feel pain and then you may almost quite possibly have a chance.
Maybe.
Watching Big Brother trying to figure out who wins the power of veto. Wife goes, “I know who wins.” I’m like “then why in the hell are we even watching this show then?”
Percent of land covered in trees. Iowa is 46th. I question Nevada at 16% with amount of desert they have.
I wonder how much of that it urban trees. I have my contribution of trees on my 1/4 acre. Not counting the neighbors big oak and honey locust that hang over my lot. You can still see my roof in satellite map view. Think I should do a tree inventory.
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Tree Inventory below. No wonder I see the bigger lots in the suburbs as being sort of "bare".
1 - large ginko (she's a beauty, eh)
1 - large silver maple
1 - fair sized red maple
1 - tall and thin white spruce
1 - one tall and thin white pine
7 - white cedars forming a screen along the alley
1 - large and declining red bud
1 - yuge radiant crabapple
3 - 40' tall columnar white pine
2 - pagoda dogwood
1 - large ginko (she's a beauty, eh)
1 - large silver maple
1 - fair sized red maple
1 - tall and thin white spruce
1 - one tall and thin white pine
7 - white cedars forming a screen along the alley
1 - large and declining red bud
1 - yuge radiant crabapple
3 - 40' tall columnar white pine
2 - pagoda dogwood
I don't know if they even include trees on private lands (single homes). I believe this is more in open forest/timber land, not single family residences. Probably counts parks, etc. though. I don't know. The map I copied didn't have those details.
It wouldn't change much. Remember, Iowa was underwater for a good period of time. Looking back to early 1800s, before Iowa was a state or settled much, we were just shy of 19%. That would move us from 46 to 43 today, not then but if we had that amount today.
Yes, remember that Iowa was a prairie state, not a woodland state. Maybe the highest percentage of prairie of any state in the union. I don't know if it is strictly the case, but I differentiate tall grass prairie from the short grass Great Plains.
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In other words, Iowa has forever lost about 60% of our native timber, which didn't amount to much to begin with. About half that loss was from 1850-1900, the rest since.
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