In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Hartford Courant,
6 May 2024
Two other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.
Is the job done carelessly so the foresters look busy, or with care and the understanding that the end product is restoration and continued growth?
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
Woodlands have been converted into timber plantations where trees are harvested before their natural deaths; some foresters also remove deadwood to reduce fuel for wildfires.
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Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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