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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3592836" data-attributes="member: 26737">When I was working in Mississippi a few years back, I saw lots of cultivated forests and trucks hauling trees to mills. From what I saw, they were primarily going to paper mills (which do not smell like roses), being turned into utility poles (which also do not smell like roses), or being ground up into wood pellets. I got to see huge piles of the pellets next to the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway.The cultivated forests are weird to see, especially when you're driving down the highway and your view suddenly aligns with the rows--I kid you not, there were some where you could look down the rows and see clear through to the other side. They use fire to clear out the underbrush, so there's no scrub brush or irregular patterns of trees like there are in the natural forests you see here, just lines of trees. In the satellite imagery, they look like carpets that have been combed.It's just...weird. Though probably not quite as weird as passing the sign for the Tombigbee National Forest and having the first thing after it be a logging operation...</blockquote>