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Old trees!The instructions are to hit the nut with a hammer. Dig the meat out with a pick.
A pound of shelled takes an hour.
The old oak has seen better days. One of the first growth trees.
The red oak beside it was 5 3/4' through, and hollow as well. The tree guys figured it was 500-600 yrs old.
If you've read Leopold's Sand County Almanac when he cuts down a lightning blasted old oak and recounts history as he(they) progress through it's rings with a two man saw...
Them old trees were/are witnesses to much. even with quiet lapses.
But eons?
Lives and species....
Acorns? meant visits by acorn eaters.
Birds man could and did kill with sticks in plenty.
Crazy.
So man over does it.
Let's pretend to be surprised.
And your old oaks? Just watch.
leopold was aware when he dumped his stove ashes it was another tree form.
The book is far better than attempts to tell of it but..
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Passenger pigeon, migratory bird hunted to extinction by humans. Billions of these birds inhabited eastern North America in the early 1800s; migrating flocks darkened the skies for days. As settlers pressed westward, passenger pigeons were slaughtered by the millions. The last known individual...
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