What happened to lumber imports?

[Robert Bonomi]

You'll find it growing as far east as Iowa and Missouri.

[Steve]

Steve Turner wrote in news:i41gng$a7d$ [e-mail]:

Pretty common in NE Oklahoma where I grew up.

[KIMOSABE]

In rural western NJ, the farmers of old planted them in rows to make a natural fence. Some old farms had a row of them where the property met the road. Around the bases there's always so much scrub brush and sticks growing, that if they are planted close together it make an effective barrier like a fence or hedge.

[keithw86]

We had them along the farm borders in central Illinois, too. I was told they were put there for erosion control after the dust-bowl of the '30s.