Ed/Joe- Yes, I watched it with rapt attention...I married the love of my life there (she was a foreigner there too, like me...;>) I lived Appalachia from 1984-1990, working in SE Kentucky on the Redbird Purchase Unit (may well be a Ranger District now), which was legislated in the early 60's to rehabilitate once private lands first owned by Henry Ford and Company, and later by Peabody Coal Company...between the two, the Redbird R.S. was pretty well pillaged, then plundered. Since 1965, foresters and forest technicians have jerked out summers of sweat rehabilitating coal mine sites and reforesting Ford's cutover areas. How? I happened to be one of the forest technicians who threw a couple of sacks of lime on my back, walked up grown over roads to the coal mine sites and spread lime by hand...later I would do the same with sacks of fertilizer...and later yet with sacks of seed and a seed spreader...a sweat jerking effort in the Kentucky hot humid spring/summer/falls, but one that made a difference, although it took several years to notice it... Reforestation consisted of timber sales coordinated with regeneration cuts intended to induce coppice reproduction...and even sweatier proposition with 40 pounds of safety gear, chainsaw, gas, oil, cruiser vest...some areas we replanted in white pine, usually in late fall/winter and was a pleasanter part of the work life at the "Redbird", with sack of seeds over our shoulder and hoedad in hand, light snow falling, working just hard enough to stay warm. Rehabilitating, reforesting, and hopefully restoring the ecosystems there will earn those involved, a lot of good karma!! -Don
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:11:49 -0400 Ripping off the top of mountains is going to earn our civilization a lot of bad karma! ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:08 PM Subject: [ENTS] Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People ENTS, Have any of you seen this program: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People. Tonight episode was entitled Power and Place and it looked at some of the early history of Great Smokey Mountains National Park, the people in Appalachia, the Coal Mining Industry in the 30's, the demise of the American Chestnut, and ended with a section on Mountain top Removal mining in West Virginia. It was very good.and I would recommend trying to catch this episode when it is televised again. Ed<BR _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage2_042009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
