<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Ok Allan, I was following along with your thread, nodding my head in agreement when you made this broad range statement:
<<</color><bigger>as almost every square foot of american ground is <<abused> EVEN much of what is covered by forest today - <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><smaller>> There are pockets and I am in one of them. I'm sure there are many throughout the US that are the same. Old ranches that may have had some of the parcel sold off and the rest just doing 'nothing'. Here, we have over 1200 acres including my own farmstead that was gradually sectioned off as children married. Mine and the 240 acres next door to me were dowery farmsteads. (inticements to some husband to come along and take away their daughters.) Behind me, part of the original parcel also, is another 600 or so acres. The neighbor who owns it is elderly and only keeps about 50 cows right around his home site. Not much has ever been done to any of this land, that I know of in the last 40 years at least. I'm almost reluctant to describe the area in fear someone WILL want to come in and disturb the land which has probably seen less effect of the human footprint than any other in Texas if not in the US. Whatever I plant here is only going to be pollinated by whatever else I plant because I'm the only one doing it. (And that's a heady responsibility.) And, that is over an area at least 5 miles in one direction, 8 along the road opposite direction and I don't know how many miles N and S (25 to the nearest roads and even then, no one is growing crops.) The down side of all this ruralness is that once you get past the little townships, the area is then covered by poultry houses. Which is another whole flock of problems.
