Ep. 450: Apical Dominance
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Origins of Acres
An acre it's through square be 208.7 feet on a side um it's 43,560 square feet and that uh as I understand we came originally from a furrow which became a fur alongUh which became the acre so this all started from the length the distance an oxen could plow before needing a break. The big version here is that the hilly acre has more surface area but not more acres yeah because acres are measured as this plain hovering above what about acres I still do a whole lot of surveying in my spare time.
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