The Creation of the
Forest
He is interesting, for the best study of the zone, to know the
geologic origin and the value litológico the Mountain range of
the Whale, rocky elevation that in form of long chain extends of
north to the south to finish in the well-known End populated with
grottos. The
sterile and apparently unproductive sands and the mountain ranges
populated with chilcas, espadañas, caraguatás and other weeds, as
soon as clarified by some indigenous trees, occupied most of that
possession. Bathed, surrounded by juncales, diverse ditches and
hongales or dunes, where some very rustic vegetal species used to
see themselves.
But a man arrived from iron will, of
enterprising spirit. He left his fleet in the coast, disembarked
plenary session of optimism, escudriñó the hidden treasures of
the region and with clear vision he seeded.
Before beginning its work, that dates from 1896
I consult the best botanists and all agreed in which it would
have to plant solely on the slope This. But Angela, its wife,
already had planted first you hoist in the lateral west and
bloomed so well that Lussich, encouraged, continuous planting of
that side. When the forest began to have aspect of so, I invite
the botanical scholar Arrechavaleta (who ten years before had
expressed to him that were a plantar utopia in Punta Ballena) and
showing its work to him it said to him socarronamente: "As it can
see, I followed its advice exactly..."
The Technician I answer astonished: "Don
Antonio, is this greater mentis given to science". She surrounded
herself by all the apt men of the region and their groups of
laborers planted the first trees, made almácigos in fabulous
amounts; they removed infected plenty of vipers, and everywhere
where one thought difficult that she prospered a vegetal species,
there same one stood and she grew with difficulties until finally
she rooted.
Other times to plant in the bathed ones, the
laborers with the water by the waist, had to make knolls or
hornitos of earth and on them place the plantita, because
otherwise it was to lose it everything uselessly. When the
plantation was ordered in the heat of hill or resorted to the
system of "sowing to the voleo" after an abundant rain or strong
iron bars, tips or powder were opened to wells between rocks,
using.
It was for one of these cases, that Mr. Lussich
adquirio certain amount of explosive by year 1897, when the
fratricida war threatened the ruin of the country and had to cost
long managements before the authorities for the office and
transfer to him of that material, of suspecting there that it
could be taken advantage of in the fight...
How different it was his application. That
powder was going to open the escarped mountain range stops in her
to deposit the fecund simiente or the tree, instead of being used
for desvastar towns and suppressing to lives, seeding the death,
desolation and the ruin. He is doubtless that that work was not
of a day; logical it is to think that the efforts and the
expenses happened frequently and that when it failed a plantation
began other to replace first.
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