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Your grandkids will thank you. Plus they're a renewable source of food and/or heat.

Your grandkids will thank you. Plus they're a renewable source of food and/or heat.

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Ive planted 15 nut trees, 3 fruit trees and 7 aspens on my property in the last several years. Thanks to some impressive teamwork by the bears and deer only 5 of those trees have survived.

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Bears will strip bark off conifers too so they can eat the cambium. They're a menace lol.

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Yeah i see very little of that around here, but its very common on the coast. I have conifers up the ass. The bears can eat the cambium if they want.

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Bears are just trying to make a living -- can't hold it against them.

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If that shit interests you, a couple book recommendations. "Born under a stump" by hulett, and education of a bear hunter by ralph flowers.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2988480-born-under-a-stump

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-education-of-a-bear-hunter_ralph-flowers/742360/item/12298653/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw06OTBhC_ARIsAAU1yOVuPc7pr93Wtd2-q9OULcM2loD3FCk5K7FyWL1mOA3YPvC6ZLJ7WfgaAqTMEALw_wcB#idiq=12298653&edition=4211666

Both books are about the professional bear hunters who worked the timber farms on the olympic peninsula to address bear damage. Bill hulet was the original, and he kinda passed the torch to ralph flowers. Flowers ended up developing the feeding programs in use today to reduce tree damage from bears seeking sugars in the cambium layers of trees in the spring.

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the black spruce is my favorite tree

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You can't eat trees. Plant corn and beans.

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Apple, citrus, nut trees, certain parts of pine trees, cinnamon, pomegranates, cherries, pau-paus, certain parts of fir...

All edible.

Plus you can hang people from them.

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>Plus you can hang people from them.

You just sold me. Plant a shit load of trees.

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Do you know what a fucking apple is?

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Apples suck. Their seeds contain arsenic. Keep the doctor away my ass. Only an idiot eats apples.

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If you eat apple seeds, youre a fucking retard. Nobody eats the seeds. Even if you swallow them theyll pass unless you crunch them up. Youd have to eat a couple dozen apples, eating all the seeds, and being sure to crunch up every seed, to worry about arsenic. You fucking retard.

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I thought that was cyanide.

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Apple crisp

Take four or five apples and chop them into 1/2 inch cubes in a mixing bowl. Add half a cup of brown sugar, the juice of an orange or a lime, a teaspoon full of cinnimon and 1/4 of a teaspoon of nutmeg. A few squirts of lime concentrate can take the place of orange or lime juice. Mix well and dump into a 9x9 inch baking pan.

In the same bowl (don't bother cleaning it) put 3/4 of a cup of white flour, 3/4 of a cup of rolled oats, 3/4 a cup of brown sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter, and a pinch of salt. Mix the dry ingredients before adding the butter, which will make them stick together. Sprinkle this over your chopped apples in the pan and press down evenly with a spoon. Bake for one full hour at 350 degrees F.

The result will make you a fan of apples.

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They say we have more trees today in North America than existed when the Mayflower landed. Seems like an unlikely claim to me, but that's what they say.