I have an undergraduate degree in Forestry from Louisiana Tech and Master’s Degree in Forestry from LSU. However, back in those days (late 50s and early 60s) we considered trees as a crop to be harvested for a profit. We thought little of understory plants as being beneficial to the forest. The idea of having pollinator plants got little or no attention. Things have changed a lot since that time. We now view pollinator plants essential to the wellbeing to the trees in the forest.