[AT] cool

[Bob McNitt]

> I've been trying to figure out how to get some greenie-weenie city folks 
> to
> pay me to "grow" my woods for carbon offsets. Maybe an "Adopt-a-Tree"
> program where they pay me a fee to adopt a tree in my woods for a year & I
> send them a picture of their tree once a month or something. They get to
> feel good about saving the world one tree at a time and I get some tractor
> money to play with. When I get tired of doing this I can just timber out 
> the
> woods and start the program all over again. I have about 100 acres of 
> woods
> that is just sitting there soaking up carbon dioxide now and growing some
> nice lumber (and deer & turkey). Maybe I can figure out how to get paid
> twice for growing timber.
> Mark Greer


Larry & Mark -

It's astounding, at least to me, how rapidly residential and commercial development is gobbling up farmland. This, coupled with greenies seeking greenhouse gas-fighting acreage, as well as hunters & sportsmen buying or leasing land for recreation, makes me wonder where this will lead to in another couple generations.

Couple all this with the fact fewer offspring of farmers choose to carryon the farming torch, and one can only wonder what this country will be like in another 50 years or so?

Bob