Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company
FRIDAY REPORT OF 12/23/05
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
In our quotations from an article by Kevin J. Delaney, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL of 12/19/05 reported a new development in helping all of us find specialized information:
“While Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and Microsoft Corp. are great at serving up answers to many types of queries, they aren’t always the best way to find specialized information. You’ll often get thousands of results for your query – but many of them end up off-topic, and there’s no easy way to narrow them down to get to what you want.
“That’s where a growing crop of specialized search sites comes in. They’re sometimes known as ‘vertical’ search engines because they target a single vertical, or industry, category – such as booking travel, buying a house or finding a job.”
To see how to reach them, click on our title above. To examine an example of what one of them will produce, enter “Southern Timber” in the empty box at the top of the page asking you to “Tell me about ___________.”
“HOGS WILD”
by Ian Frazier
Our title and quotes are from an article in 12/12/05 THE NEW YORKER:
“When hunted, wild hogs often become nocturnal. They are as smart as, or smarter than, dogs. A study done in South Carolina found that catching wild hogs in traps required about twenty-nine man-hours per hog. Past a certain point, removing hogs is too expensive and hard on the environment to be worthwhile…
“The first feral pigs in continental North America deserted from the expedition of Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer who crossed the Southeast to beyond the Mississippi River in 1539-42…
“In 1982, eighteen states in the U.S. had wild hogs. By 1999, nine more states had reported populations of them. By 2004, wild hogs could be found in twenty-eight states; three more have acquired wild hogs since then…
“Next question: What do wild hogs do that’s so bad?
“Oh, not much. They just eat the eggs of the sea turtle, an endangered species, on barrier islands off the East Coast, and root up rare and diverse species of plants all over, and contribute to the replacement of those plants by weedy, invasive species, and promote erosion, and undermine roadbeds and bridges with their rooting, and push expensive horses away from food stations in pastures in Georgia, and inflict tusk marks on the legs of these horses, and eat eggs of game birds like quail and grouse, and run off game species like deer and wild turkeys, and eat food plots planted specially for those animals, and root up the hurricane levee in Bayou Sauvage, Louisiana, that kept Lake Ponchartrain from flooding the eastern part of New Orleans, and chase a woman in Itasca, Texas, and root up lawns of condominiums in Silicon Valley, and kill lambs and calves, and eat them so thoroughly that no evidence of the attack can be found…
“Oh, them damned hogs. Noses with bodies and legs appendaged, bristled vacuum-cleaner bags attached to snouts, is what they are. The hogs’ noses actually have a special bone on them called the nasal sesamoid bone, which is connected to the skull only by cartilage and which provides extra rooting support for the rhinarial disk – the pig’s nose, the business end, with two hypersentient, staring nostril holes. Wild pigs’ noses soon become callused from rooting, and are generally muddy. Sometimes a pig will stop in the middle of rooting and raise its head and blow dirt out its nose. Pigs have a powerful and highly nuanced sense of smell. They can detect scent coming from as far away as seven miles cross-country, and from twenty-five feet underground…
“Farther on, the dirt road led past pine plantations, their loblolly and slash pines growing in rows; Mayer told me how wild hogs can rip up many acres of newly planted pine seedlings in a night, eating only the cambium-rich taproot and leaving the rest…”
This fascinating, outstanding, 13-page article also contains a striking color painting by Walton Ford of a wild hog in the piney woods. It is not posted on the Internet; you must buy a copy of the magazine. You’ll love it.
“ ‘TWO-SIDED’ INDUSTRIES INTRIGUE ECONOMISTS AND REGULATORS”
Our title and quotes below are from “Economics focus: Matchmakers and trustbusters” in The Economist” of 12/10/05:
“The first time anyone paid with plastic, they used cardboard. In February 1950 Frank McNamara paid for a meal at Major’s Cabin Grill in New York with his newly invented Diners Club card, a small piece of cardboard. The event is known by some in the industry as the First Supper.
“The supper would never have taken place had McNamara not solved an awkward conundrum: restaurants would not accept his cards unless restaurant-goers wanted to use them; but diners would not hold the cards unless restaurants accepted them. He broke this bind by giving his cards away free at first to well-heeled Manhattanites. With some of New York’s big spenders on board, McNamara could then tempt restaurants to accept the card, and even to give him a cut of the tab…”
To read all of this article, click on http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5278464&no_na_tran=1
OUR BLOG AND YOURS
Do you keep a blog? We hope so, for you read the things we write about and are therefore interested in the subjects that interest us. We are flattered, and we’d also very much like to read what you write about.
We don’t register on big globes of blogs for it may take us all day to examine all of them, and we might not understand much of it. Therefore, we hope you will send us the address of what you’ve written even remotely connected with the forest economy of the eastern United States. We’d also like to have permission to quote you, and we promise not to argue with you, in print or otherwise.
USED BOOK SALES
We offer for sale all books listed at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php.
OUR SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBER
For the details, click on http://www.vardaman.com and then on the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” You can offer to buy or sell timber or land. You must post the general area of your interest; be sure to include the state. You must also post your E-MAIL ADDRESS and the URL of your Internet site. Our tracking report will not report the number of visitors UNLESS you enter your URL. If you are selling, you should post the name of the tract. When you have entered all details, click on “Submit,” and what you just entered will appear on our Internet site at the bottom of the page under the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” Be sure to check for and correct errors.
For each tract posted after 05/12/05 and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.25 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.25 for each visit his ad received during the week just ended. You can pay us by e-mailing the money to “Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company” at PayPal or mailing it to P.O. Box 12293, Jackson, MS 39236. We will delete your ad when your payments cease. The new fee schedule does not apply to tracts marked with asterisks::
SELL LAND OR TIMBER
For 107-A. tract in GA, click on http://www.Buythisfsbo.com/pineplantation/
For 2071A. tract in TN, click on Doktortombstone@aol.com
BUY LAND
*For tracts in SC, send e-mail to loblolly@surfbvi.com
For tracts in SC, send e-mail to rich@CHRISTOPHERRADKO.COM
For tracts in MD, send e-mail to meyerstm@comcast.net
For tracts in MA, send e-mail to leonelmtz65@hotmail.com
For tracts in OR, send e-mail to 7200moore@charter.net
For tracts in OR, send e-mail to ptodd@orclinic.com
For tracts in FL, send e-mail to hot63vdub@hotmail.com
For tracts in TX, send e-mail to reedkimbley@hotmail.com
For tracts in TN, send e-mail to Doktortombstone@aol.com
BUY TIMBER
*For tracts in AR, send e-mail to dyork@digitalpassage.com
*For tracts in IL, send e-mail to psftimber@hotmail.com
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