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[patrice]

urban old-growth forest in KC, MO.

https://www.facebook.com/events/474001012634161/

Part of Forest Avenue near 39th Street:

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Is that really old growth forest?

The trees line up suspiciously parallel to the road, on both sides - and the page claims they are all sycamore trees, which also seems very unlikely for old growth forest. And if it was old growth forest, they obviously cut down most of it long ago to make room for the road and the houses.

[patrice]

2. It's what passes for forest in our urban core. I'll change the verbiage if it's a problem.

I saw estimates that those trees are about 75 years old. It is an old neighborhood near where the city began by the Missouri river.

[patrice]

3. Yay DU. The single reaction I get is somebody bitching about the words.

Sigh.