Post a useless fact

["couldbecousin"]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

[Parts]

The first message sent across the first transatlantic telegraph in 1858 was "Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men."

[Stalin]

It's a year for lemmings this year.
My mom saw tons of em up at the cabin. No trains, just confused little buggers running around being angry.

[Queen Victoria]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

["couldbecousin"]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees. 

[Parts]

Soylent Green is people



and is good with lots of ketchup

[Queen Victoria]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees. 

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

[Parts]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees. 

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

I had similar thoughts.  Here it the opposite big old trees that are anywhere near public land are very difficult to cut down.   

[Queen Victoria]

Darn.  I knew a useless fact, but I forgot it.

[P7PSP]

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees. 

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

I doubt that any of the people who cut down their trees even read your post. 

[bodie]

Gary Gilmore was executed at Utah State Prison in January 1976.

[bodie]

Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad (his choice)
Utah's tradition dictated that a firing squad comprise five men — four of them with live rounds, and one with a blank round,
so that each of the shooters could cast doubt to having fired a fatal shot.

Upon inspection of the clothes worn by Gary Gilmore at his execution,  it was revealed that five bullet holes were found.
Indicating they were not taking any chances with blank rounds!

['andersom']

The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am. 

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape? 

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees. 

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

I had similar thoughts.  Here it the opposite big old trees that are anywhere near public land are very difficult to cut down.   

The latter is true for most places in the Netherlands I think. But.... I live on new land, and they want it to look new all the time. Preserve the pioneering look of it. I don't get that, why not let this new landscape evolve. But, it is what it is.

Not far from me there is a former island, mainly a peat heap in the landscape, and a big peat-heap below the surface too. There are some older buildings and older trees on there. Because it is now not an island any-more, it is sinking. The past 40 years the surface of the island has sunk over a meter. If it would go on like that, in a couple of hundred years, the former island would not be a hillock in the flat landscape, but an inverted version of that, a pit. People want to preserve the island shape though. So, they have created wetlands around the former island. I live in the make-able place of the Netherlands. God forbid that anything here would develop on it's own into a mature landscape. Kind of like how they photo-shop models into forever-young shapes.

There is one other reason for lack of trees. Some trees harbour and spread diseases for bulb-plants. And since there are a lot of tulip/lily/other bulb-plant farmers here, it does make kind of sense that those trees aren't welcome here.

[Queen Victoria]

When you are at the top of a page here, hitting the go up button is pretty useless, no matter how often you try.

['andersom']

Some roads in the municipality I live in have weird names.

Wrecks-way, Air-plane-way, Vicar-way, Mammoth-way, road of disgrace.