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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc
I live in an area where any piece of unattended land will reforest itself with remarkable speed.
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Same here, but I think that's pretty much true of anywhere in the humid East. Chicago's drier, maybe...? Being on the edge of the Great Plains like it is?
My home city here in Quebec has a policy that any tree over ~3.5 inches in trunk diameter can't be cut without a permit, and the site of a downtown building that was (stupidly, but let's not get started on this) demolished a few years ago and left to its own devices (i.e. abandoned to weeds) already has Quaking Aspens that are now big enough that if you wanted to re-build a building there, you couldn't just clear the land anymore without having to go to a process to be allowed to cut the "weeds".
(Since I warned the City that if the demolition went forward, the site would likely be empty for the foreseeable future, I have bragged a few times "see, where that building used to stand, there are now trees mature enough that you can't even legally cut them anymore, who was right?"
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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc
I love urban greenery, I love the ways that people will shoehorn greenery into urban settings, and I love threads that talk about it.
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I also love threads that talk about it, on a two-way
discussion forum. Via Chicago and Crawford are both intelligent and enjoyable to interact with, on their Good Dr Jekyll days, and I'm sure you'd be the same.