Creating a gracefully curving, “natural” looking landscape takes some heavy-duty whacking of trees. Yesterday Henry and I walked around the south prairie area (called Tallgrass prairie and Dropseed areas on our website tour map area), to figure out which trees should be removed to create more curving, less abrupt edges between the fields and forests. All sorts of old fences (some really old flat wire, some barbed wire and some woven wire) have created unnatural barriers grown over in cedars, shrubs, and bigger trees. What you see from the air are square-edged fields. On the ground, you can’t walk from the prairie into the woods because of the wall of plants. So we strolled along, marking some trees to remove, others to leave and did a rough mark-up on an aerial photo. What a big mess it will be to clear out that stuff! Lots of work for a “natural” look.