Please consider adding some links to your sites.


KESLICK AND SON MODERN ARBORICULTURE
My resume is at http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/educat.html

Here are some links you may consider adding to your site. They are case
sensitive.

1. Techno Tree Biology Dictionary
http://www.treedictionary.com . Look up "logging".

2. Articles written by DR. ALEX L. SHIGO, one of the foremost authorities
worldwide on tree systems today online at
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/shigo/index.html

3. Literature Available by DR. SHIGO is here:
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/treeinfo.html

4. Hard to get Documents
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/hardtoget/index.html


If you have any suggestions please let me know. 610-864-5251

John A. Keslick, Jr.
Tree Biologist
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman
Beware of so-called TREE EXPERTS who do not understand TREE BIOLOGY!
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us
that we are not the boss.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Jeff N FOR:EX" <jeff.stone@...>
To: <cdfoster@...>
Cc: <rd-burns@...>; <dead_wood@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: [dead_wood] Texas A&M education modules on forest bio-fuel
production, harvest and utilization


>
> Dr. Darwin Foster,
> I was made aware of the March 14, 2005 web article titled 'Tree-Power'
Could
> be Future Energy Source on the Texas A&M University System Agriculture
> Program web site
> (http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/FRSC/Mar1405a.htm). The
underlying
> message of this article is that wood is just wasted if it is left
following
> harvest and that it should be used for bio-fuel.
> I am concerned about how this article portrays dead wood in a forest
> ecosystem and about the resources ($500,000 grant) provided to you to
> educate the forest industry on bio-fuels. Dead wood has an important
> ecological role that needs to be recognized It is my hope that in
promoting
> bio-fuels that you will not neglect the importance of dead wood and the
need
> for forest industry to consider their role as forest stewards in managing
> dead wood.
> For information on the ecolgical value of dead wood I recommend looking at
> the proceedings of a syposium on dead wood in western forests held in 1999
> at http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-181/. Further, I'm
> sure that there are many members of the Deadwood Ecology and Management
> Discussion list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dead_wood) who would be
> willing to provide you with information on the ecological value of
deadwood.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jeff Stone, PhD
> Moderator Deadwood Discussion List
> jeff.stone@...
> Opinions expressed in this email are those of Jeff Stone and do not
> represent the opinion or policy of his employer.
>
> To members of the discussion list, here are a couple of paragraphs from
the
> web page
> Science and preliminary economic studies say forest residue can be an
> economically viable energy source. What's required is for everyone
involved
> in the forestry industry - foresters, plant operators, forest landowners,
> energy producers and educators - to rethink how they do things, Foster
said.
>
> Armed with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Foster
> and his colleagues in Extension Forestry and the Texas A&M University
> department of forest science plan to develop education modules on forest
> bio-fuel production, harvest and utilization. Foster expects the modules
> will be comprised of not only printed material, such as brochures and
> handbooks, but also Web pages and multi-media CD-ROMs and DVDs.
> But the economic benefits are two-fold, he said. First it is a truly
> renewable resource. Trees are efficient at turning sunlight, moisture and
a
> few basic nutrients into bio-mass. Using forest residue as bio-fuel also
> will utilize a resource that is being left to rot in the field.
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