Re: Forestry practices

Posted by jdemaris on April 12, 2010 at 12:04:55 from (67.142.130.49):

In Reply to: Re: Forestry practices posted by chevytaHOE5674 on April 12, 2010 at 11:41:38:

I'm not trying to educate you. I wound't do that even if we were discussing John Deere tractors. This is, hopefully an interchange of ideas and experience. No source citations or masters thesis required. You are the one that came into the forum telling someone their forestry practices may not be very good. Not me.

One of my majors in college and grad-school was environmental resource management and hydrology.
Also studied anthropological resource management and legal anthropology. Never used any of it on a professional level though. I'm cut out to remain a grease-monkey and nothing else. That being said, I'm pretty well versed in the many approaches to ecology, forestry, etc. throughout the world. Obviously not from your perspective since you're doing it professionally and I never have.

I can say for sure that I've known many professionals in your field that disagree on certain aspects of forestry management. Also disagree with themselves over a spectrum of time as new science gets learned and some old science gets disproven.

By the way, on "old growth." It means different things to different people. Here in New York there are very few true old growth forests, but there are a few. By that, I mean forests that have never been cut by a new-world settler. Can't speak for the Indians or mound-builders before that.

Not far from me in the Adirondacks is an "almost" old growth white pine forest called Cathedral Pines. It is an amazing place to see. Some almost original "Kings Trees" there. At one time, New World settlers were not allowed to cut them since the King of England reserved them for ship masts.

What I'd love to see and probably never will is old growth sassafrass. From a white-man perspective, it was "discovered" 1st by Jacques Cartier in 1534, and later/again by Samuel D. Champlain. Thought to be a cure-all for many diseases. So, Sir Waler Raleigh became a world-wide dealer/exporter/importer in sassafrass and cut it all over America and thus shipped it back to England.
Seems the "foresters" back then mis-identified it as the "tree of life" which now applies to Red Cedar , i.e. "Arbor Vitae."

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