Ed, We are like the Ents of Fangorn. Confined largely to one area and limited everywhere else. But we must somehow spread and represent trees everywhere. It would be the ultimate goal of ENTS. But people must find us enteresting, and fun. Having a varied member base concentrating on all aspects of trees from our classic documentation and tree measuring to fantasy-folklore and all in between I feel is essential. A broader ENTS. How to go about this, I don't really know. The Primal Forests group could be a start but must it be a literally separate group? Could ENTS itself be represented on a server such as Ning?
Personally, I think ENTS is awesome. I view forests more in depth since I have become involved. But I would like to see ENTS become more diversified. ALL to do with trees. Run the gauntlet. But to become global, we must be fun and a broad interest base would make this more possible for everyone. James Parton. On Jan 16, 10:05 am, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > Kouta, > > I also would like to se a Global organization, but first we need to attract > the attention of people in other areas of the world. We have a couple > members from India who are not active. We have one from Malaysia, and a > couple people from North America doing work in the East Indies. But overall > ENTS is not well represented in other areas of the world. > > Ed > > Join me at the Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community at: > http://primalforests.ning.com/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kouta Räsänen > To: ENTSTrees > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:10 AM > Subject: [ENTS] Re: European Native Tree Society > > Ed, > > You have done great work with webpages! > > Websites about famous and historic big trees I will leave to Jeroen. > He seems to be an first class expert in that area. > > I send further comments to you by e-mail. > > Actually I would be more interested in helping to start some kind of > "global ENTS" than a local European one. I think it would be great to > get tree and forest scientist and enthusiasts around the world into a > single forum. Now our knowledge about forests and trees is quite > restricted to those parts of the world from where we get information > in the languages we understand. Take Japan as an example. Japan's > forests and tree flora is very interesting and high class scientific > work is made there, but there is not much literature in English. Many > European/American tree books use another European/American literature > as sources even when they tell about Japan, because authors cannot > read Japanese. Of course, today many scientific articles are published > in English. So, if we had some japanese people in the forum, even if > they were not professionals, our understanding about tree/forest topic > would increase for sure. Of course, some other problems would arise. > For example, all the American members wouldn't like to receive massive > amount of e-mails about trees of Russia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, > South Africa, ... There should be some method for members to choose, > from which area they want to receive posts. These are only theoretical > speculations from my personal point of view. > > Kouta --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
