[Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more

[Robert Klein]

Hi

it is good to see your efforts on reforestation.  The
challenge is to make it work for 2 billion other
folks.

arclein


--- Jim Joyner <jimstoy at dtccom.net> wrote:

> Wow, sorry I missed the all-night party last night.
> 
> Lou, You all seem to have covered trees and COs
> quite well. I have an
> opinion but no more to add. But, I would point that
> there are other
> reasons for planting trees.
> 
> At present I am reforesting fields and parts of
> fields I inherited from
> another generation (and building "leaky dams"). The
> fields are too
> sloped to ever be very productive for one thing but,
> more importantly,
> trees hold the water back and provide good water
> shed for more
> productive fields and the folks that are below me.
> It time, these trees,
> as demonstrated in a few places in southern
> California can actually
> change climate for the better. Desertification is a
> process proceeding
> at a rapid pace world wide and it ain't all about
> CO2.
> 
> It's all well and good to talk about taking carbon
> out of the atmosphere
> but if you don't link this with a concept effective
> water shed, you may
> find these efforts go for naught.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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