Gary- Absolute preservation? No stopping wildfires, pestilence, pathogens, natural or otherwise?
Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Gary A Beluzo <[email protected]> wrote: > And would the legal protection be against development AND > management? I am beginning to develop a John Muir attitude that we > have denigrated so much landscape that the tiny measley scraps > remaining deserve absolute preservation before those are > rationalized away by insouciant and ignorant bureaucraps. > > Gary > > Prof. Gary A. Beluzo > Systems Ecologist > Holyoke Comm College > 303 Homestead Ave > Holyoke, MA. 01040 > > > On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Joseph Zorzin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
