Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Free Stree Biology Stuff
-- FREE Tree Care Information. Top Quality Stuff. http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/SHIGO/ Sincerely, John A. Keslick, Jr. Tree Biologist http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/sound/ |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Free Stree Biology Stuff
John,
Does Dr. Shigo still get around? I saw him give a talk in the Green Mt. Nat. Forest in Vermont about 20 years ago. I have some of his books and consider him to be one of the best contributors to forestry. As a member of the Forest Stewards Guild, I'd love to invite him to give the Guild a talk at his convenience in Massachusetts. Do you think he might be interested? -- Joe Zorzin http://www.forestmeister.com "John A. Keslick, Jr." wrote in message ... -- FREE Tree Care Information. Top Quality Stuff. http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/SHIGO/ Sincerely, John A. Keslick, Jr. Tree Biologist http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/sound/ |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Free Stree Biology Stuff
I can sum up logging in one sentence instead of wasting
paragraph after paragraph after paragraph on it as you do on your page: 1. Logging is the conversion of a real estate holding (standing trees) to a personal property holding (logs). Your ideas on how fungi and other tree parasites are legitimate, but breifly scanning the intro, there seems to be a trend to forget that humans are part of the ecology too! The role we play is the top predator, and are able to make decisions regarding values on the land as to whether a tree should go or should stay based on many facets. Many times we happen to consider standing trees as timber having a higher value than that of sustaining the life of higher populations of specific fungi and organisms that are tree munchers, other times we don't. It wouldn't even be reasonable to lock up the federal forests from logging, as that was not what those forests lands were provided for in the first place, but rather what wilderness is available for. We already have ample wilderness in this country - that is a value judgement of course, however based on logic. Logic tells me that there is no man living a humans life time that could walk every acre of wilderness in this country. Please keep human kind in mind when you consider what "else" logging is. Geoff Kegerreis "John A. Keslick, Jr." wrote: -- FREE Tree Care Information. Top Quality Stuff. http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/SHIGO/ Sincerely, John A. Keslick, Jr. Tree Biologist http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/sound/ |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Free Stree Biology Stuff
I can sum up logging in one sentence instead of wasting
paragraph after paragraph after paragraph on it as you do on your page: 1. Logging is the conversion of a real estate holding (standing trees) to a personal property holding (logs). Your ideas on how fungi and other tree parasites are legitimate, but breifly scanning the intro, there seems to be a trend to forget that humans are part of the ecology too! The role we play is the top predator, and are able to make decisions regarding values on the land as to whether a tree should go or should stay based on many facets. Many times we happen to consider standing trees as timber having a higher value than that of sustaining the life of higher populations of specific fungi and organisms that are tree munchers, other times we don't. It wouldn't even be reasonable to lock up the federal forests from logging, as that was not what those forests lands were provided for in the first place, but rather what wilderness is available for. We already have ample wilderness in this country - that is a value judgement of course, however based on logic. Logic tells me that there is no man living a humans life time that could walk every acre of wilderness in this country. Please keep human kind in mind when you consider what "else" logging is. Geoff Kegerreis "John A. Keslick, Jr." wrote: -- FREE Tree Care Information. Top Quality Stuff. http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/SHIGO/ Sincerely, John A. Keslick, Jr. Tree Biologist http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/sound/ |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|