It was your contagious and charismatic enthusiasm for big and old trees in part, Bob, but also your commitment and dedication to wild forests, your powers of articulation in describing them, your sleuth-like ability to find them, and your moving sermons on their behalf! In short, with respect to great trees and wild forests, you speak with authority. You've a clear vision of how the East should be broadly and wildly forested, again some distant day.
Your friend and fan John ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: Davis, John ; [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC Sing it, sister Beth. Sing it! Old Evangelist Bob P.S. There's a humorous side to calling myself an evangelist. Some years ago, back in the early 1990s, I think, my great friend John Davis formerly the editor of the splendid 'Wild Earth' publication proclaimed me to be the "Evangelist of Old Growth". For a time, the name stuck. John evidently picked up something in my personality that suggested a southern evangelist. Hmmmm. Wonder what it was? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Koebel" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:12:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC Amen Trees are the answer.--bumper sticker from Illinois Forest Association --- On Thu, 8/20/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 3:58 PM Lee, With respect to the evangelical message ---- repent brother, repent. Us clean livers down here in western Mass got the message a long time ago from our ancestor Puritan brothers and sisters. Fire cleansed their roles. Today we have great white pines as our reward. The profligate types up in Minnesota can expect to continue being battered by tornados, derechos, hail, ice, blizzards, etc. REPENT. I SAY REPENT. Evangelistic Bob, OMG, I hope no one thinks I'm serious. JOKE! JOKE! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Frelich" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:06:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC Jenny: Southern Minnesota is part of the tornado belt, and the derecho triangle (derechos are severe thunderstorms with straightline winds) as well--so we get hurricane force winds quite often. Minnesota usually has about 26 tornadoes per year, and 1500 tornadoes have been recorded since 1950. I have not heard the Evangelical interpretation of the tornado. With regard to birds--they lost a lot of habitat from the tornado due to downed trees. No one knows how many birds are killed by tornadoes, but I'll beet more are killed by hail than tornadoes--even a relatively small 3/4 or 1 inch diameter hail stone traveling at high speed could be a serious hazard for a bird. Lee > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Frelich <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 9:31 am > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Storm knocked down trees in Central Park, NYC --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
