All, I'm not heavily involved so I'm slightly hesitatant to say it, but I have to second this notion. ENTS already discusses trees around the world as is exemplified in the recent discussions on European trees, but has also discussed tall trees of Asia and Austrailia. I'm pretty sure we've seen Baobabs of Africa in email discussions as well.
I think anyone would be hard pressed to find any organization (in the world) that could compete with ENTS in being THE authority on measuring trees. We already discuss trees worldwide. Almost anytime I go traveling overseas I look up information on significant trees and forests in the location I'm going to. It is often difficult to find anything. It would be very nice to be able to go to the ENTS site and have this information as conveniently availalbe as it is for the Eastern United States. An additional item is that although French speakers may be loathe to admit it, English is now the international language and would be most appropriate for global discussion. Regardless of the location, the "native" aspect still has importance. It places a greater level of significance on forests and trees that naturally occur on a site - so I don't think removing "native" would be necessary. It might sound a little hippyish, but Earth Native Tree Society would retain "ENTS" as a name. For what it's worth, that's my two cents. Darian On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Kouta Räsänen <[email protected]>wrote: > > James & Ed, > > James, it makes me glad that someone of the American ENTS thinks like > you! > > Changing global by widening ENTS, rather than starting new groups, has > the advantage, that ENTS works already and is already interesting and > has varied member base. For example, if I want to write something > about trees, I choose ENTS, because so I get more readers. James > wrote: "Could ENTS itself be represented on a server such as Ning"; > maybe also this possibility could be considered. The "Groups" idea of > Ning is good, but I find the website somehow confused. > > It is, of course, your decision, if you want to expand or remain > eastern American. If more ENTS prefered to expand, perhaps you could > talk about it, for example, in your Congaree meeting. > > I will add Primal Forests to Wikipedia, hopefully it attracts new > members, and hopefully nobody deletes it. > > > ENTS could also > > stand for Earth Native Tree Society. > > If this utopia will some day come true, we must remember that James > Parton said it first! > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
