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TIL the Navy owns a forest in Indiana
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:23 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:23 pm
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The Royal Navy Admiral Collingwood would famously slip a handful of acorns into his pockets before taking a walk in the woods near his home. He would press an acorn into the soil whenever he saw a good place for an oak tree to grow. He wanted to make sure that the Navy would never lack oak trees to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.
The US Navy has gone one step further. At a high tech facility in Indiana, hundreds of miles from the sea, the navy maintains “Constitution Grove“, a private 50,000-acre white oak forest dedicated to supplying timber to maintain the one remaining commissioned wooden sailing ship in the US Navy, the USS Constitution. The sailing frigate was built of primarily white oak in 1797.
The ship completed a two year drydocking and restoration program in 2017. During the restoration 35 trees from the grove were selected to be harvested to replace rotting hull planks.
Constitution Grove is not only protected for the white oak trees, but also the biological diversity an oak forest provides, including the wildlife that live there. Three Navy civilian foresters help maintain the wood and ensure that no tree removed from the ecosystem will have an adverse effect on the grove’s biodiversity.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:25 pm to Jim Rockford
Half as Interesting youtube did a story on this a couple weeks ago. Nice quick rundown as to why that wood and why that forest.
youtube
Lots of money spent preserving that boat.
youtube
Lots of money spent preserving that boat.
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:26 pm to Jim Rockford
I don't know anything about that, but I have stayed at the Crane Naval Base in Indiana and fished the lake there.
I think they store ammunition at Crane but I'm not sure.
I think they store ammunition at Crane but I'm not sure.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Interesting AF
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:01 pm to Jim Rockford
They can't tree the forest for the seas
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:05 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
a private 50,000-acre white oak forest dedicated to supplying timber to maintain the one remaining commissioned wooden sailing ship i
I have a sneaking suspicion the founding fathers didn’t want to run out of bourbon barrels either. Ship timber probably sounded better at the time.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 12:05 am to Jim Rockford
quote:
white oak trees
quote:
biodiversity
Posted on 7/28/23 at 12:25 am to Jim Rockford
The original oak for the Constituiton is
From coastal Georgia
From coastal Georgia
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