“Instead, he hired an expert and put on his snowshoes and went into the woods with him. For days, they walked through the property counting trees. At night, back at camp, Casey compared his count with the inspectors. If the numbers disagreed, they went back into the woods and counted again.”

Casey Irving · The Knowledge Project · K.C. Irving: Competing with Giants

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hired a timber expert, put on snowshoes and walked the forest for days counting trees, then compared his count with the expert’s and recounted until the numbers matched before writing the check

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