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y favorite Duke Forest walk <br />savanna. y <br />i MO <br />Five thousand years later larger <br />begins at Gate 23 on Mt. Sinai <br />when they <br />Road and descends to the <br />were fores <br />wooden bridge that crosses New Hope <br />by the anti <br />Creek. Seeing the large oaks and pines, <br />generation <br />many who walk this heavily traveled <br />Early on <br />trail probably assume that the woods <br />neighbors <br />that surround them are truly ancient, <br />"`agriculture <br />maybe even primeval. But travelers on <br />ecariomy. l <br />this road 150 years ago were surrounded <br />heeds Witt <br />by abandoned and eroded farm fields —a <br />towns;for't <br />landscape reminiscent °of some of the <br />themselves <br />most deforested and impoverished places <br />perhaps,, w <br />on our planet. <br />givrr lima; <br />The history of change that produced <br />rese <br />that 1865 landscape and the one we <br />rrtfiyara <br />see today has much to teach us about, <br />a�tiiat: <br />sustainable land stewardship. <br />A Mr. John Patterson was the first <br />th <br />person to have fo "rhr�I tftle to this land <br />C areC <br />(more than 1,p00 acres; laving received <br />In to are <br />it as a, gran fxom ocalonial governor <br />lit <br />re vetta <br />in tithe as "b means the <br />plant sped <br />--A I <br />mammals ',to,extinction arld MO rd much nu or�1 <br />Jo1�, i <br />i, <br />forest land with their delioerater�� ofiJre i <br />i MO <br />Five thousand years later larger <br />i r: jt <br />.A"_. <br />,r one <br />I f <br />Y <br />O <br />T <br />a <br />c <br />0 <br />0 <br />U <br />O <br />O <br />O <br />L <br />a <br />