What a poignant image Don! Karl Cronin dry earth
p: +1.718.916.3528 w: dryearth.org face: http://tinyurl.com/naturedance tweet: dryearth Check out our new website! www.dryearth.org //////////////////////////////////////////////////// On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:14 AM, DON BERTOLETTE wrote: > Randy/ENTS- > On the topic of nurse logs, I ran across a recent photo I took in a > foxtail pine forest ...a foxtail pine may live to be 2000 > years...once dead, they may remain vertical for decades. Once > horizontal, it may take even longer to degrade into duff. > The young foxtail seedling growing at the tip of the dead and down, > soon to be duff foxtail pine in the foreground, probably came from a > seed that may have taken years to encounter the right combination of > seasonal moisture, soil warmth, and scarification regime to burst > into life and lend optimism to a forest currently facing changing > climate conditions. > -Don > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Nurse logs > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:10:52 -0500 > > Here's another nice one from the smokies > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Will Blozan wrote: > > Jess, > > Great thread to start! I found 11 species of tree on a nurse log in > Cataloochee once. I’ll look for the photo. Here are some shots of > those crazy ones on Chapman Prong in Greenbrier. I bet Paul Jost > remembers the one in the last shot… > > <image001.jpg> > > <image002.jpg> > > > <image003.jpg> > Will F. Blozan > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > > > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. > Find out more. > > > <Copy of DSCN1717.JPG> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
