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Article #2Re: High Tech Reforestation
From: Andy Mac Nicol
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:00
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The idea is certainly not new. I think it was the Duke of Atholl who, over 100 years ago, planted inaccessible areas by putting tree seeds into clay balls and firing them at the mountain with a cannon. -- Andy MacNicol amacnicol@usa.net ICQ No. 29463215 Freedom Bird (CFH) <freedombird@freeuk.net> wrote in message news:380870E8.643B9F0@freeuk.net... > Andy R wrote: > > > > On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:15:54 +0100, "Mark Ballard" <markballard@bigfoot.com> > > wrote: in <37fce372@news.madhousenet.co.uk> > > > > >From the Reforesting Scotland Journal issue 22 > > > > > >Many of you will have been amused to read recently of a plan to use C-130 > > >bombers to carpet Scotland with young trees (Guardian 2/9/99 , Scotsman and > > >Herald 3/9/99). It sounds, as a SWT spokesperson said in response to the > > <snip> > > > > See ! And you lot all thought I was making it up as some kind of usenet > > hoax . > > I've crewed on C-130s and, although the Hercules has many variants, this > is the first time that I've ever heard of them described as "bombers", > even though the Argentines did try to use them as such during the > Falklands unfriendliness. > > -- > Charles
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1064f5,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid1064f5,public X-Google-Thread: fdaed,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdaed,public X-Google-Thread: 10b88a,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b88a,public X-Google-Thread: 10a409,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a409,public X-Google-Thread: 105251,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid105251,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,e861154c03266420 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: fd969,a0b08e2687b05e5d X-Google-Attributes: gidfd969,public From: "Andy Mac Nicol" <Amacnicol@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: High Tech Reforestation Date: 1999/10/23 Message-ID: <7ut21l$he0$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> X-Deja-AN: 539723404 References: <1Nn3N5hYV5YxN4hyi2k8vL7wnfHc@4ax.com> <m37ll3lfst.fsf@gododdin.jasmine.org.uk> <ryH5N0x0fqLGmItebmNCTi7jOnlj@4ax.com> <7tgevp$qnq$1@yeppa.connect.com.au> <37fce372@news.madhousenet.co.uk> <P0D9N8Q6tRGr8vdSKvpM38h5M5Ua@4ax.com> <380870E8.643B9F0@freeuk.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Organization: BT Internet X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Andy Mac Nicol" <amacnicol@usa.net> Newsgroups: free.uk.technology.alternative,uk.misc,free.uk.aviation.pilots,free.uk.gardening,ne.general,uk.rec.aviation,scot.environment,aus.environment.misc