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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2357774, member: 13874&quot;][USER=13430]@smallaxe[/USER] Thank you for posting the photo and link to the history article about turpentine. I live in the middle of a long-leaf (aka long-needle) pine forest in North/Central Florida. The huge pines around here still <i>sweat sap</i> in the Spring but many of [ATTACH=full]261351[/ATTACH] the oldest have now turned into socalled <i>fatwood</i>. It&#039;s a state of the tree when it has become tapped out and what&#039;s left cannot escape so it stays in the wood fibres as oily wood. When felled this<i> fatwood</i> is slit into thin pieces used as fire starter in fire places, festive bonfires and sold in hardware stores by the bundle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo is of our property above the lake with hundred+-year-old long-needle pines all around. I took the photo to show the <i>Sand Hill Cranes</i>, six of them, vying for turf. Two groups of three antagonists tested the territorial patience of each other. That&#039;s the better half filming the action on the right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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