----- Original Message ----- From: David Yarrow To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [biochar] Fw: Forests as Water Pumps
thanks, wayne, for the recognition. i am struck by the image that these heartless idiots who continue to promote and profit from the wanton and accelerating destruction of trees and forests are much like a man who destroys his mother's uterus, and, when asked why he acted insanely and savagely thus, responds, "i have no more use for it." we humans are most at home in the shade of the forest. we do not easily survive long in the direct solar heat of grasslands or desert, and certainly our ancestors were not aquatic or we would have gills. the forest was a human sanctuary in early evolution, and remained so until only recently. not until agriculture began to harvest the grasslands did humans begin to spend less and less time in the shelter of trees, eventually abandoning them completely, and now wrecking them wholesale worldwide. i see it as a wizard of oz journey in reverse: scarecrow (farmland), tinman (clearcutter), lion (ancient original forest). my sister lives in cape coral FL, where they scraped a few thousand acres to bare bedrock, dug artificial canals, installed subdivisions, seeded alien ecosystems. thanks to such huge scale modern developments, we now have many examples of the effect of removing trees on hundreds of acres to install such gated condomunium "communities", military facilities, etc. it changes weather patterns. clouds disappear over them. thermal updrafts divert weather around them. it dries up spring and watersheds, creating a desert. it accelerates soil erosion and loss, assuring a desert, degrading biodiversity further. more humans have no respect for trees as living, sentient beings. they're just ornaments in the scenery, cash in the can, commodities for purchase. the major part of the disease that has humanity in a feverish psychoses of ecosystem destruction is our own alienation from nature -- a kind of psychic numbness that is infected in infants at an early age, and cemented in place by years of careful cultural programming and training. we are all victims of a culture and mentality that has -- for the most part -- been alienated from nature for hundreds of generations. but especially in the last few centuries of increasing industrial revolution and urban aggregation of population. my father taught wood products engineering at the college of forestry of the state university of NY. when i started the NY champion tree project to "protect, preserve & propagate our big trees" i spoke to the college president. his reply was a classic highlight to the mindset of our entire culture, but of professional forestry in particular: "we don't want to do anything that will discourage the public of seeing trees as commodities for harvest." i instantly felt the cruel truth of this statement in my guts, but in reflecting later on its implications, i realized the chamion tree project was a nurseryman's idea, who grows trees, not a forester, who harvests them. and i understood why the u.s. forest service is in the US dept. of agriculture. my own slogan is the contrary of the college of forestry president: "if yer nor forest, yer against us." now, humanity is faced with a genuine and deep ideological crisis rooted in our relationship to the forest. if humanity is to survive, and if humanity is to successfully participate in the restoration of a very disturbed biosphere, we must sign a peace treaty with the micro-organisms in the sea & soil, and with the trees and forests. we must stop adding daily to their degradation and destruction, and begin respecting them as critical, irreplaceable allies in the work ahead to stabilize climate and regenerate soils worldwide. i see very little, hardly any evidence to believe such simple, common sense, universal startegy for survival is anywhere in focus in the public mind or policy. however, this year NY's blind governor from the bronx signed unto law recognition and protection for NY's ancient forests and champion trees. i haen't read the text yet, but watch my other website for new details: www.ancientforests.us for a green & peaceful planet, David Yarrow Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary 44 Gilligan Rd, East Greenbush, NY 12061 cell: 518-881-6632 www.carbon-negative.us www.ancientforests.us www.nutrient-dense.info www.OnondagaVesica.info www.OnondagaLakePeaceFestival.org www.farmandfood.org www.SeaAgri.com www.TurtleEyeland.org www.dyarrow.org ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:40 AM Subject: Re: [biochar] Fw: Forests as Water Pumps David, Many thanks for this link. I have long thought, from my work in Africa, that trees have more of a role in climate than most climatologists thought. The Ethiopian proverb "trees pull the rain" is one of my all time favorites. A study by the Canadian IDRC in the early 1980's indicated the same thing, that evapotranspiration in the Amazon was essential for downwind rainfall. We do not know what we are doing when we deforest landscapes. Let's speak for the trees - to paraphrase Dr. Suess. We can make biochar from the trimmings. Wayne ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:49:07 -0400 >From: "David Yarrow" <[email protected]> >Subject: [biochar] Fw: Forests as Water Pumps >To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tad Montgomery > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:48 PM > > fascinating report of a new scientific theory about > the role forests play regulating Earth's climate. > I read it once, pondered it for a few days, read it > again, > and kept saying 'Wow, wow." > http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0401-hance_revolutionarytheory.html > > "... While this model has widespread implications > for numerous sciences, none of them are larger > than the importance of conserving forests, which > are shown to be crucial to 'pumping' precipitation > from one place to another." > > Much of it seems intuitively obvious to me -- that > forests regulate the climate of entire continents. > What is fascinating, and deeply disturbing, is that > conventional climatology and meteorology don't > recognize that. > Tad > ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸.·´¯`·...¸.·´¯`·><((((º> > ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. > ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`><((((º>¸.·´¯`·... > Tad Montgomery & Associates > Ecological Engineering > 118 Washington Street, #2 > Brattleboro, VT 05301-6483 > (802) 251-0502 > [email protected] > ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸.·´¯`·...¸.·´¯`·><((((º> > ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. > ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`><((((º>¸.·´¯`·... > > Wayne S. 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