Lee,
That would be wild - meeting up with you in Prague. A good friend of mine and Monica's, Dr. Mela Waldman, is a Czech and regularly returns to her native home for visits. Sounds like a visit to the Czech Republic may be in the stars, urh, uh trees. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Frelich" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:40:38 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Radial versus volume growth Bob: Maybe you can schedule your visit to the Czech Republic for the same time I give my lecture in Prague next summer. I am sure you would also be welcome to visit Bialowieza Forest in Poland with us as well. Lee [email protected] wrote: > > Kouta, > > > > I hear you. Actually, my wife has friends in the Czech Republic > and we have a standing invitation to visit them. She has been there > and played a concert. I've never known much about that part of Europe. > It seems to be very interesting and tree growth sounds very impressive. > > > > Bob > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kouta Räsänen" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:01:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Radial versus volume growth > > > Bob, > > Bosnia is the only place you mentioned where you should do only guided > hikes due to land mines. That is true also in some areas of Croatia. > Otherwise Balkans, Czech and Slovakia are about as safe as western > Europe. Last year I read a study which said there are more crimes per > capita in many western countries then in Balkans. Bulgaria may be a > bit less safe, but I don't know if there are substantial old growth > forests left. Language can be a small problem, english is not spoken > widely in smaller localities. If you take the case seriously, you > study some basics of the local language (say, 3 months); everything is > then easier. > > Kouta > > > On a different topic, the big tree reports from our valued > European Ents are making me salivate. I never even thought of places > like the Czech Republic , Bosnia , Bulgaria , etc. as the locations of > great trees. Two of my wife Monica's pianos were built in the Czech > Republic . I am beginning to think more seriously about a trip to that > part of the world. I must confess that the political situations in > some of those places leave me nervous, but if ENTS is going to do the > job that we are destined to do, the risks may have to be taken. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
