Don't have to be an expert to see times changing there buddy, and you can bet yer behind you are right. I remember a time when you couldn't walk across a cow pasture without flushing quail, dove, and rabbit. Nowadays it is an oddity to see them in East Texas. Back then almost all the pasture lands were surrounded by lowland hardwoods, or upland hardwoods and pine. Now the earth is being scraped bare around here. People keep wondering why the ground won't hold moisture, and why it is so much hotter than when I was a kid. I try to tell them that it is in great deal due to a lack of trees and shade, but they look at me like I have a thrid eyeball. There are places here now where you can see for over a mile across open pasture that was once edged in oaks you couldn't reach around with several buddies. They cut them down so they can get four more rolls of hay from the property. . . . .
GoodOlBoy
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