Right- well, some of us involved with the "vision process" for the state have said the reserves must be protected by law- regardless of what you call them. The debate as to how much ranges from the current 20% to 100%.
Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary A Beluzo To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:31 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: New paper on wilderness management and climate change Lee and Joe, I hate to keep repeating this cry but why is the state NOT considerIng any PRESERVES and duping the public with RESERVES? Seems like there should be some land that is preserved as a "control" for all future forestry experiments. Gary Prof. Gary A. Beluzo Systems Ecologist Holyoke Comm College 303 Homestead Ave Holyoke, MA. 01040 On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Lee Frelich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Joe: > > Yes, more reserved forest will help mitigate climate change because > forest that is not harvested will sequester and store more carbon. > > Reserved forest provides the only opportunity to observe how forests > respond to climate change by itself, with a lower level of multiple > stresses (of which harvesting would be one). > > They also are the controls for the long term experiment we are > conducting by harvesting the forest. Forests did not evolve to > produce > commercial products, and it has not been proven that harvest can be > sustainable, or if so can, at what level. > > Reserved forests are more likely to end up having multi-age structure, > which is more resilient to most types of change and disturbance. > > Lee > > Joseph Zorzin wrote: >> Lee, I'm printing out that now- it's on the site. But, though I >> haven't yet read it I have a question for you. >> >> Here in Mass. we're debating what percentage of the state's roughly >> half million acres of state forest land should be in reserves. There >> of course many different arguments pro and con for different amounts. >> >> But focusing in on your research: do you believe that holding more >> rather than less acreage in reserves is a way of mitigating the long >> term effects on the forests from climate change? >> >> If you have time to reply- please "reply to all". >> >> Joe >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Lee Frelich <mailto:[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >> > >> *Sent:* Friday, October 23, 2009 11:27 AM >> *Subject:* [ENTS] New paper on wilderness management and climate >> change >> >> >> ENTS: >> >> The last of my three papers on climate change to be published this >> year >> came out yesterday: >> >> Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2009. Wilderness conservation in an >> era of >> global warming and invasive species: a case study from Minnesot >> a’s >> Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. /Natural Areas Journal/ 29: >> 385-393. >> >> We should have a pdf on the website later today: >> http://forestecology.cfans.umn.edu/publications.html >> >> Lee >> >> >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
