Wolfgang wrote:

"DaveS" wrote in message

http://perso.ch/arboretum/man_tree.htm

Very nice.

including, not surprisingly, our own peripatetic Johnny Appleseed (aka
Jonathan Chapman).

I'm from Ohio and one of my grandparent's was a Chapman...

anyone who has seen a denuded landscape turned into a forest (or vice
versa, as is, unfortuately, more often the case) can testify to the
existence of real miracles.

Down here (in the upper elevation hills, not the desert), a Bouffier
who would restore the land _would_ be cutting down trees, working on
clearing the endless square miles of juniper trees and restoring the
grasslands. It's grass that would bring back the springs, not
trees...trees suck the ground dry.

Jon.