[Magdalen] Christmas Trees

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Sent: Dec 23, 2016 2:35 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Christmas Trees
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>In a message dated 12/23/2016 2:20:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>charles.wohlers at verizon.net writes:
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>It's  definitely an advantage to live where balsam firs grow wild in such  
>profusion - we have many well over 50' tall, plus lots of smaller ones  
>too. 
>Why pay for a live tree when there are so many growing right outside  your  
>door?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
>We are well south of the natural range here of the Balsam Firs,  although
>I have a 40' fir in the front yard that my brother sent me in an  envelope
>as a 3" seedling from his back yard.
> 
>In Wisconsin, i was just south of the natural range of the Balsam  Fir,
>and so I dug up a few 15" seedlings roadside late one summer (August)
>and planted them.  Though early in the dormancy season, they all  took
>very well.
> 
>I had a wild 80 acres thirty miles north of Eau Claire, and I planted  some
>firs there, only to have a commercial Christmas tree company come  into
>the property and cut most of the first and girdle the White and Red  Pines
>to use for their wreaths.  
> 
>I tracked them down, and they not only didn't apologize for  "borrowing"
>these trees, but were defiant about their action suggesting it was  their
>"right" to cut trees on wild property wherever they wanted.  I warned  them
>that if they tried cutting trees and boughs on my property again there  
>would
>be hell to pay.
> 
> 
>David S.
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I would think condign punishment along the lines of Wicker Man

Joe