Reds are really a pine-adapted species that had responded to a broadleaf vacancy after the most recent ice age.

WSJ: Ecology and Change: Nature Has No 'Balance' for Us to Keep | Mind & Matter

But ecologically, one has to admit that the gray is better at filling the squirrel niche in our broadleaf woodland.

WSJ: Ecology and Change: Nature Has No 'Balance' for Us to Keep | Mind & Matter

Over the next 25 years, Braka, along with two partners, purchased fields as they came up for sale and slowly restored the parkland to its original state, planting more than half a million trees of mixed broadleaf varieties oak, ash, chestnut and blackthorn.

WSJ: The Perfect English Country Inn

But these stores were just an introduction to what had really changed: what had really changed were the subdi-visions beyond the stores, the subdivisions where ten years before there had been only broadleaf tobacco and corn fields, subdivisions with signs at the gated entrances that said MONACO ESTATES and STONEHAVEN, and with streets named Princess Grace Way and Sheep Meadow Circle.

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