Ed- I know it's the American way, 'bigger is better', but one of the nicest things about ENTS, and it's earlier incarnations, is that it's been a grass roots, local/now regional thing, small enough that most of us who have been lurking here long enough, have a sense of the other forum members...now how accurate that idea is could be a lively topic of debate. It's been my experience that as any group gets larger, many members, once active, slide back into a less participatory role. I think that you have done exactly the right things in the expansion that we've undergone...providing links to a broader more global forested awareness has been a great addition to a wonderful webpage resource! -Don
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: European Native Tree Society Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:11:59 -0500 Darrian, Kouta, I also would like to see a global variety of ENTS. The way things are however is that people are more interested in general to their own areas than they are globally. I am interested in trees all over, but many are not. If we want ENTS to be come globally important, then how do we get people from other areas to join when our focus is generally the eastern US? I added some sub groups to the Primal Forests site to serve perhaps as an on ramp or a forum to get started. But I really don't know what else to do. I have compiles a larger list of web links for Europe to post on the ENTS site (when my computer is fixed) maybe this will attract some interest when people do web searches. What else can I do or we do? Ed Join me at the Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community at: http://primalforests.ning.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Darian Copiz To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:56 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: European Native Tree Society 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 <BR _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
