On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:49:38 +0000, Moosh:] wrote:

The moisture loss from green grass, trees and open water is similar.

Really? Not in Australia, but then we use trees for lowering water table
-- stopping salination.

Eucalypts?

NZ has a tree called (IIRC) kahikatea. Juveniles only grow in swamps.

Adults are only found in dried out areas which were formerly swamps. This is not coincidence.

The only problem is they take several hundred years to do the job.