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16 Comments

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   From David Crossley:

   In other words, the trees are alive and doing their natural thing. That includes providing oxygen, evapotranspiration, habitat, and carbon sequestration. Do you love St. Augustine grass?

   November 10, 2011 at 9:32 am
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   From cm=corey:

   I grew up there, and quite like the pines @$$.

   November 10, 2011 at 10:18 am
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   From D:

   Trees gonna be trees, bro

   November 10, 2011 at 11:18 am
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   From markd:

   Morons get free speech too!

   November 10, 2011 at 12:04 pm
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   From protagoras:

   Stupid trees.

   November 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm
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   From Neil:

   We still have to/get to steward them. And other things, so it would be good to be clear on what is a shame. There were a number of pretty good pine 16′-long rafters in the attic of my house, and this year a workman up there sawed some apart to make braces that wouldn’t have required a normal 2×4. I remember Scott was not a wanton person; he was very thoughtful about the apts at Alabama and Dunlavy. I will Hazard my guess

   – since I think this was a worthy comment of the day in most respects, and if you want to think about it:
   - that his, like my or yours and my, priorities are geared with a sense of how much it took for something to be there. This is mpt like saying that a basis is the sense of how irreplaceable something really will be in the foreseeable future [rather than of its absolute value], since that opportunity cost would be a matter of scarcity, where What It Takes is going to gauge a significance less relatively. We can make a type of claim according to that explanation of meaning versus waste… People don’t mourn elephants just because they’re charismatic megafauna :) — or because of disrespect to livingness or due to ecosystem/natural capital destruction — they grieve because an animal’s death *is* more an occasion for grief than when a mushroom or Saint Augustinegrass is gone for no good reason.

   November 10, 2011 at 1:24 pm
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   From Old School:

   Pines are great compared to those awful live oak trees. Live oak trees are high emitters of volatile organic compounds. You should be so lucky to have nice clean pines all around you.

   November 10, 2011 at 1:34 pm
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   From Bobby Hadley:

   This comment thread is really making Houstonians look like the most anti-arborial people on the face of the earth.

   Let the record show that I love live oak trees.

   November 10, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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   From jwood:

   Death to the tallow trees!

   November 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm
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    From cm=corey:

    No please clear cut some more trees for the greediest corporation in the world, sure who cares when there are record profits to me made gouging humanity as well as the environment. Kudos on your greed and lack of social responsibility, maybe you can hire a PR firm ala BP for some artificial goodwill.

    November 10, 2011 at 4:33 pm
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    From PYEWACKET2:

    I’d rather have 3 live oak trees around my house than a dozen pines. They really make good shade.

    November 10, 2011 at 8:56 pm
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    From mollusk:

    Old School is right. Do we have Oak-Sol? Oak-O-Oak? Nope. It’s all the power of Pine, baby…

    November 10, 2011 at 10:20 pm
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    From korsakoff:

    This is a ridiculous statement, and the fact that the editor(s) made this the “comment of the day” makes me question their judgement.

    November 10, 2011 at 11:24 pm
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    From Hellsing:

    I rather liked the Wilshire Village collection of old magnolia trees – sigh….

    November 11, 2011 at 9:12 am
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    From TheNiche:

    The OP lacks tact. I can see that. But if this is second-generation forest planted by humans with the intent of eventually harvesting the timber, then it probably is not very biodiverse. It takes some hardwoods to support a good mix of fauna.

    It’d be nice to see Exxon buy up twice as much acreage as was developed (hopefully with more biodiversity than just pines) somewhere in east Texas, then develop it for ecotourism and gift it to the National Park System. It’d be some very affordable PR, as PR goes.

    November 11, 2011 at 10:24 am
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    From Mike:

    Too bad nobody told George Mitchell in time, instead of The Woodlands he could have built his master-planned community out in Katy or somewhere where he wouldn’t have had to deal with all those shit pines.

    November 13, 2011 at 12:10 pm