[Terrapreta] Forestland management

[Greg and April]

Lou,

If you back and check what I said, you will see what I said was a 30 year base - not a fixed number.

"a 30 year ( or more ) rotation ( with a few areas always kept clear and several area never touched ), depending on the species and the forest type."

In Colorado, pines are taking over from the aspen at about the 20-30 year point, so I used that as an example, if one wanted to keep young fast growing species as the more dominate type. 

I repeat, " 30 year ( or more ) " and " depending on the species and the forest type "


Ideally you really want to have a mixture of forest secession areas to have the most diverse mix of plants and animals.    Continuous old growth forest is just as bad in it's own way, as monocroping.

Greg H.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold 
  To: Greg and April 
  Cc: Terra Preta 
  Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 17:54
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Forestland management


  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 
      To: Greg and April 
      Cc: terrapreta 
      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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