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<let name=data index=TextAbove>Remember when used to sit back and admire our lovely hardwood forests -- and then the wisteria salesman talked us into leveraging our assets with accelerated growth through diversification?</let>
<let name=data index=TextAbove>Remember when used to sit back and admire our lovely hardwood forests -- and then the wisteria salesman talked us into leveraging our assets with accelerated growth through diversification?</let>
<let name=data index=TextBelow>So we had our nice old-growth forest, right, and every now and then a tree would die from old age or lightning and we could either harvest it for the wood or let it lie to feed bugs that feed birds that help spread seeds around and promote a healthy ecosystem yadda yadda. It wasn't very exciting or dynamic -- really, it was about as exciting as watching trees grow -- but it was stable and pleasant to walk in.[[File:100 6080.JPG|thumb|stagnant old growth]]
<let name=data index=TextBelow>The way it used to be was this: every now and then a tree would die from old age or lightning and we could either harvest it for the wood or let it lie to feed bugs that feed birds that help spread seeds around and promote a healthy ecosystem yadda yadda. It wasn't very exciting or dynamic -- really, it was about as exciting as watching trees grow -- but it was stable and pleasant to walk in.[[File:100 6080.JPG|thumb|stagnant old growth]]


Then one day we were approached by this guy who said he was sad to see how terribly stagnant our forest was. What do you mean?, we asked. Because there's hardly any growth, he said. "What's your favorite tree in the forest? Maybe this oak here? Do you have ''any idea what a waste of space this oak is?''"
Then one day we were approached by this guy who said he was sad to see how terribly stagnant our forest was. What do you mean?, we asked. Because there's hardly any growth, he said. "What's your favorite tree in the forest? Maybe this oak here? Do you have ''any idea what a waste of space this oak is?''"

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