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Posted by clueless [201.202.29.210] on Monday, July 02, 2012 at 14:35:27 :
In Reply to: Re: guayucanreal = Lignum Vitae ? posted by Bill Gibson [173.76.98.33] on Monday, July 02, 2012 at 11:59:29 :
no wonder there is none left, too bad someone did not think about reforestation back then
sailing vessels showed up and denuded the pacific and carribean coast
caoba guayucan cocobolo ron ron not to mention corteza(corteseesa(cut this one in local spanish jargon) amarillo, what they make all the stake beds out of here
and then somebody had the brilliant idea that african grass would grow well where the forest used to be so people could raise cattle and sell em to big mac so they marched inland and denuded the rest of the country, letting most of the wood rot, and planted estrella africanizado
kinda of coming back and folks are reforesting to some degree
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