[Terrapreta] Forestland management

[lou gold]

WOW. I just gotta say you guys are miles and miles from understanding a
forest. You can't apply the notion of a 30 year rotation to a forest. It's a
tree farm which is not a bad thing but it is not a forest -- not even close.
You are talking about farming and not about forest management.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>
wrote:

>  YES!
>
> Absolutely positively no doubt at all.
>
> To a degree it's already been done with the practice of coppice in the
> United Kingdom, only there it is more like a field of crops ( and some of
> the trees are more than 200 yrs old ).    When you down to it, an entire
> ecological base has established under the coppice system, with plants that
> require more light moving in right after the trees have been coppiced.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppice
>
> I'm not saying that we should treat all our forests to coppice management
> - just that there is some evidence already that the a similar management
> system ( of cutting down and letting regrowth take it's place ) can work.
> Indeed some areas it may work to put in permanent short term coppice with
> fast growing native species like aspen, cottonwood, and popular.
>
> While I do not have land YET, I promise you this, when I do, it's a system
> of coppice that I'm going to use, to develop it, and provide fuel for my
> farm ( and Terra Preta to improve it's soil ) becoming as self sustaining as
> possable!
>
> I really can not stress my belief in this any stronger.
>
> Greg H.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com>
> *To:* Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>
> *Cc:* terrapreta <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 19, 2008 16:58
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Forestland management
>
>  Hi Greg,
>
> Do you think you could "cull" biomass from a forestland at the same rate
> that it grew and manage that in sustainable way?
>
> Regards,
>
> SKB
>
>
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