Arbor Day

[Delmonico]

Yep it's here, our own Nebraska home grown Holiday.  A local nurserie's radio ad says they will "install" any tree over $150 for free.

J. Sterling Morton was an early Nebraska settler and pushed for his holiday.

What chance would it have today, replace a viable native enviroment with a non-native one, often involving non-native species.

Ok I like trees, but I like prairie also and the tall grass type is almost gone.

BTW an acre of healthy tall grass prairie is said to produce more O2 in a year than an acre of rain forest.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Arbor day is also known as Delmonico's Pet Peeve Day.




AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

I have a tree I need to cut down, might be a good day for it.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

< Gets out the free oak saplings she received for Earth Day, packages them up and sends them on the overnight Poney Express to Del >



AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

What kind of oak, Earth Day, must be yuppie oaks.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Red oak. 

Slim

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I dunno, they were sticks with the roots wrapped in wet paper towels then shoved into a zip-loc bag. They're about 15 inches long and have since sprouted leaves.

And now they are on the way to Del.



AnnieLee

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Del, Deer like acorns. Just a suggestion...........Buck

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Buck, have you put out your hummingbird feeders yet? I didn't have mine setup, I thought it was too early for them.... until a male divebombed me on Tuesday to remind me.

He's full of energy, flits every which direction, and lets everyone know when he is annoyed. I think I'm going to name him "Del."



AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Red Oak is OK, native to the Riparian Woodlands odf South East Nebraska.  That means ya got ta keep the trees near the creek.

Buck, they like soy beans better.

[Delmonico]

Forgive me also, I have errored in the past.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=14&X=1868&Y=11217&W=1&qs=%7ccook%7cNE%7c


I am partly responsible for that bunch of tree rows that is a blot on the prairie.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Well, I see you haven't lost your touch with them sat-e-lites......Buck

[Forty Rod]

Riparian?

You been watchin' Sesame street again?

[Delmonico]

Yep. watched it yesterday, also Blue's Clue's, Lazy Town, Miz Spider's Sunnypatch and the Backyardigans.   But I don't help at the daycare again till Thursday.

It's ok my brother was just here, he knew I had to work to day so he got an extra tree for me, he used a D-8 Cat.   

[Silver Creek Slim]

Forgive me also, I have errored in the past.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=14&X=1868&Y=11217&W=1&qs=%7ccook%7cNE%7c


I am partly responsible for that bunch of tree rows that is a blot on the prairie.

40 lashes with a wet noodle fer ya. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

T'was Monday I got to see some revenge on ol' J. Morton.  Was helpin' my wife's niece at her day care and me and the older kids were outside.  Well we are on the east side of the airport on a hill and I seen white smoke over the ridge 4 miles away.  Well I know grass fire smoke when I see it, but it soon went out. 

Then another small one, not quite the same place, and then when it died another and another, then a big one, we could see the flames and I then knew what was up. The small fires were burning fire breaks and the big one was the main fire.  The University researchers were burnin' 9 mile Praire, 9 miles from down-town and one of the best chunks of Tall-Grass left, burnin' keeps the trees out.  A beutiful place it is, in about a month the burned area will be green and the flowers will be abound, cause the praire does best when burned every few years.

I found this link, the US Postal Service has even issued a stamp to honor the place.


http://snrs.unl.edu/wedin/nefieldsites/NineMile/nine_mile_prairie.htm