Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:02:47 -0400
From: “John R Dykers”
Subject: your posts critique of ‘Cryptic’s facts’ dated 12 june and posted 14 june
If your Ph D is in forest management, I will defer to your criticisms of Cryptic’s ‘facts’ and accept your own versions.
My bias is that I love big old trees.
But a lot depends on whether one is keeping an old growth forest for its beauty and biology and shelter for my cows, or whether one is managing forest for productivity of wood and wood products and the income therefrom.
Fire in any forest is tricky; witness the ‘controled burns’ that have become uncontroled disasters. Fire also varies depending on the primary species of the forest.
All of us can join in praying we don’t have drought, a powerful contributor to wildfires. (often triggered by human carelessness in addition to lightening)
Maybe Al Cooke or Debbie Roose or Sam Groce or Luke Wood or Dennis Hearn or Buddy Fields or Frank Jessup or Matt Rutledge or Gregg Brown or Joey Peele or Jeremy Isom or Ben Baird or Scotty Comer or Brandon Szilvay or Margaret Tiano can chime in as they all are forest focused as biologists or make their living from forest management in various ways.
John Dykers
Maryphyllis and I have discussed such often; she added many of the important benefits of trees, crucial to our survival. Only one correction; cutting down a tree does not release the sequestered CO2; that happens only when the tree is burned. Growing trees sequester more CO2 than our ‘golden oldies’..
Soil is held in place and enriched by trees, but the earth’s crust is ‘held onto the surface of the planet’ by gravity, disrupted from time to time by the eruption of the molten lava beneath the crust.
John
and Jody told me what a ‘hackerspace’ is! Thanks. You folks are doing/going to do remarkable things!