I wrote:
>> It can be depressing for someone like me who grew up in
>>a really cool area to be surrounded by millions of acres of agriculture.
Then BBB reamed me out with:
>Since when is agriculture not cool? When I go to the city, I get
>depressed because I grew up in a cool area (a farm) and there I am
>surrounded by people and buildings. But I manage.
I hope you all realize that this was written tongue in cheek. My inlaws
are vegitarian cattle farmers (I guess cattle are vegitarian too) here in
Iowa.
Then John Lind wrote:
>Does this look anything like what you found with 3 ton weight limit? It
>was miles from the nearest *State* Highway on a county section line road.
> http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/johnlind/olympus/olympusgallery/om57.html
Hardly. This bridge was one of these spindly iron things half rotted away.
Then Gregg wrote:
>When we lived in Wyoming, a friend of ours left for Kansas or Iowa ( is
>there much geographical difference) to become a Forest Ranger. We had
>visions of all the forest rangers holding hands around the one tree in the
>state, protecting it from who-knows-what.
I've seen that tree! For the record: Kansas is FLAT, Iowa is more rolling.
And then my good friend Joel Wilcox piped in with:
>BTW Ken, I graduated from HS in Ames, so I DO remember the University
>there, and the Ledges near Boone. I walked the trails with any number of
>girls and enjoyed it with each and every one. :)
That explains all of the JW+xx initials carved into the trees. <g>
For the record: IOWA DOES HAVE TREES! Not many, but there are a few if
you know where to look. Forestry really isn't that big of an industry
here. I think it compares to scubadiving.
Ken Norton
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