OUTDOOR CORNER: TREE MANAGEMENT PAYS IN LONG HAUL

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Sunday, May 2, 1999

Trees and forests will grow on their own, without any management. Nearly every acre of forest in Missouri was harvested between the 1800s and the late 1920s, and much of the cut-over land subsequently was burned repeatedly and subjected to uncontrolled livestock grazing.

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