Sigh! Just don't like seeing the gray button

[PollyPoPo]

I figure most Sherwood folk are visiting TRF about now.

The "no new posts" gray button just looked so forlorn here.   

[Merlin the Elder]

Since we don't do TRF, we are thinking forward to Sherwood Forest opening weekend now that RenDezvous is behind us. We talked Sherwood up to everyone! Got some maybes lined up, but likely not for the weekend we will be attending.

[PollyPoPo]

Wonderful!  The more the merrier!

Looking forward to February.

[Tink]

We weren't able to make it out last year, but hopefully we'll get to this time!

[Merlin the Elder]

Yay, Tink! 

[Tink]

 

[DonaCatalina]

I don't know if we'll manage all of the logistics; but I would like to make one visit to Sherwood in 2014.

[Ginette]

I can't wait for Sherwood! I miss everyone!!

[Rani Zemirah]

We would LOVE to get down there one of these seasons, soon!  We've been talking about making it for Spring Break next spring... but it looks like we may be heading to FL then, instead.  It all depends on finances, of course...

[DonaCatalina]

Have the trees in the fire areas started to recover?

[RenStarr]

Dona,
Yes and No.  In the areas where the fires were at (starting point was south of Hwy 290 then heading towards Bastrop) the forest floor has started to recover.  I've seen where young pine trees are starting to come up.  But there's still allot of tall black dead pine trees that just haven't fallen yet.  So you could say the forest floor is starting to recover but the canopy in allot of those areas is gone. 

[Rowan MacD]

  Will DNR replant, or are they going to let the weeds take over?
  I don't know how much farmland is around there, but agribusiness takes a dim view of that.

[Merlin the Elder]

A good portion of the damage was to the state park there. It was heavily wooded, and I'd have to assume they will try to restore the park. 

From what I've seen from the road, it's not so much a food farming area.

[PollyPoPo]

I think they are still pulling out and mulching the dead trees in the state park. 

Last winter/spring they were starting to plant small trees.

It will take years, but with care it will come back.

Driving through, it just looks a little more open than before. 

[Johnny Stache]

Since this is just a thread to beat back the bastard gray button :p I figure here is as good a place as any to ask this question. How big CAN sherwood get, camp grounds,parking and storage areas included, as far as total acerage the lords of the manor can develop?