Few Douglas fir grow in these pine woods
One fir is there among south-facing Ponderosa Pine,
Every fall a lot of little seedlings sprout
Around it –
Every summer during long dry drouth they die.
Once ever y forty years or so
A rain comes in July.
Two summers back it did that,
The Doug fir seedlings lived that year
The next year it was dry,
A few fir made it through.
This year, with roots down deep, two live
A Douglas fir will be among these pines
at he 3000-foot level
north of the south fork
of the Yuba river
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As an instructor I've always felt I'm sorting through my students
over the decades to find those fir's that last.
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