[Terrapreta] "Coppiced" agricultrual woodland management

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lou,

I expect you are right on this.  Coppicing is an agricultural practice and it does not respect the biodiversity nor the natural processes occurring in natural forest lands.  I'm sorry if my Subject: line made this confusion.  I sure hope I did not piss off Larry Williams and/or David Yarrow with this E-MAIL gaff either.

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold<mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com> 
  To: Greg and April<mailto:gregandapril at earthlink.net> 
  Cc: Terra Preta<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:54 PM
  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<mailto: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<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<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com> 
      To: Greg and April<mailto:gregandapril at earthlink.net> 
      Cc: terrapreta<mailto: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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