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Maybe they exist, but I am not aware of any (even small) patches of virgin forest in my area. I have heard that in Northeast Louisiana, there are some on the island hunting clubs of the Mississippi River. That would be cool to see.
Do you have any virgin patches in your area? What are they like? Do you have access?
Trying to envision how a virgin forest in this area would subsist. I wonder if oaks and pines would get so big that a forest fire wouldn't wipe them out. If so, I guess you would have ultra-large trees and every once in awhile one would die and that would open up that canopy area for regeneration.
Sad that there are none here. The closest I can come to it is a wildlife refuge here; those trees are pretty impressive, but many were logged many decades ago.
My dad used to own land next to tract that the biggest water oak trees I have seen. They were magnificent. It wasn't that big of an area, just a few acres, but the trees were huge and they flanked a hill coming up off of a bottomland spring creek. It was like being in a cathedral. About ten years ago, they cut them when they logged the entire tract. Ugh.
I also wonder how long hardwoods and southern pines can live.
If patches exist here and there, it would cool to see them.
Do you have any virgin patches in your area? What are they like? Do you have access?
Trying to envision how a virgin forest in this area would subsist. I wonder if oaks and pines would get so big that a forest fire wouldn't wipe them out. If so, I guess you would have ultra-large trees and every once in awhile one would die and that would open up that canopy area for regeneration.
Sad that there are none here. The closest I can come to it is a wildlife refuge here; those trees are pretty impressive, but many were logged many decades ago.
My dad used to own land next to tract that the biggest water oak trees I have seen. They were magnificent. It wasn't that big of an area, just a few acres, but the trees were huge and they flanked a hill coming up off of a bottomland spring creek. It was like being in a cathedral. About ten years ago, they cut them when they logged the entire tract. Ugh.
I also wonder how long hardwoods and southern pines can live.
If patches exist here and there, it would cool to see them.