We're completing a lab study of the density and water content of downed woody material samples collected from a mixed-species forest of central Maine. We ...
Shawn Fraver
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Feb 2, 2000 6:43 pm
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I used 40 samples for N analyses, for various combinations of decay stage (1-4) and type (1-5) of dead wood from tropical Australia. This was far from an...
Simon Grove
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Feb 2, 2000 11:58 pm
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I used 40 samples for N analyses, for various combinations of decay stage (1-4) and type (1-5) of dead wood from tropical Australia. This was far from an...
Simon Grove
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Feb 3, 2000 12:05 am
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Hi, I'm trying to age canopy gaps in red spruce dominated Acadian forests in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. I've attempted to determine the age of gaps from...
fmoola
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Feb 4, 2000 8:41 pm
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Faisal Moola, There's an excellent article that might be of use: Dynesius and Gunnar-Jonsson. 1991. Dating uprooted trees: comparison and application of eight...
Shawn Fraver
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Feb 4, 2000 10:06 pm
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Steve, Are you still collecting references? More wildlife species that use jackstraw are lynx (denning) and hare. Most of what we know about lynx den sites...
Cheryl Quade
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Feb 17, 2000 11:50 pm
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I am sorry to bother you with a question, which is somewhat behind the topic. I would like to learn if there are examples of a location of the nature...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Feb 29, 2000 8:52 am
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Good morning, Andrzej. Here in British Columbia, Canada we have a Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks (MELP) that is separate from our Ministry of...
MacKinnon, Andy FOR:EX
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Feb 29, 2000 5:43 pm
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Queensland, Australia, and Uganda are two places I'm familiar with that have separate ministries for forestry and nature conservation. In Australia, at the...
Simon Grove
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Feb 29, 2000 11:26 pm
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Thanks Simon for all this information. I can see that the controversy between forestry (including so called 'sustainable forestry' or 'multipurpose forestry')...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 1, 2000 8:35 am
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Your posting was also very interesting Andrzej I can see the benefits of the new paradigm of sustainable, multipurpose forestry, but primarily where applied to...
Simon Grove
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Mar 1, 2000 10:52 pm
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... It is still a hard job, isn't it? Very recently for exemple, I met a professor of forest ecology at the university who told me: "how can those greens dare...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 2, 2000 7:18 am
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And have you noticed how bark beetles, and even wood-rotting fungi, are always said to "infest" trees - never just "colonise" them like other animals, even if...
Simon Grove
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Mar 2, 2000 10:55 pm
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Yes, I have noticed. But I trust more a common sense than any political correctness... Have a nice weekend! andrzej ...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 3, 2000 1:51 pm
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Simon: I am a firm believer in the power of language. All of the commom terms associated with wood decaying (and associated) organisms (infested, diseased,...
Ken Bevis
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Mar 3, 2000 8:52 pm
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Ken and Simon, I do agree with you, that language in use is very important (maybe is less important in the post-soviet countries like mine, where during long ...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 6, 2000 9:41 am
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Hello! I would like to comment some of the themes that has been discussed in this group. Here in Norway the situation is: 1) There is a separate ministry of...
Midtgaard, Fred
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Mar 6, 2000 10:28 am
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Dear Dr Midtgaard, thanks for your interesting letter. I guess the Norwegian agriculture ministry includes also forestry, doesn't it? The system you have...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 6, 2000 1:13 pm
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simon grove <simon.grov-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/dead_wood/?start=20 ... need ... Dear Simon! This mail got lost in...
Vacik
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Mar 6, 2000 2:51 pm
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Andy, Andrzej, BC, Canada: Yes, MELP and MoF (Ministry of Forests) are separated in BC. However, MELP is tiny compared to MoF, has a percentage of the staff...
DAKR
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Mar 6, 2000 4:00 pm
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This is in response to recent messages discussing terms like "infect" and "infest": To a plant pathologist the term "infect" implies the establishment of a ...
Pronos_John/r5_stanis...
Mar 6, 2000 4:01 pm
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Requesting information and references regarding hazard tree guidelines for forest dirt roads (class 2 roads). Familiar with "Guidleines for Selecting Reserve...
Laura Colton
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Mar 6, 2000 4:01 pm
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I'm having trouble locating specific USFS snag guidelines. Do they even exist on a large, national or regional scale, or are they specific to each forest? In...
Kerry Hughes
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Mar 6, 2000 6:48 pm
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Hazard trees are felled under the authority of the Federal Highway Safety Act and without regard to ecological value (d.b.h or age or use unless there is an...
Craig Thomas
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Mar 6, 2000 7:25 pm
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Kerry, They vary forest to forest. Lisa Bate ... From: Kerry Hughes <kl_hughes@...> To: dead_wood@eGroups.com <dead_wood@eGroups.com> Date: Monday, March...
Lisa J. Bate
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Mar 6, 2000 7:34 pm
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John What's biologically incorrect about saying a tree has been *colonised* by a fungus or insect, rather than infested? Processes of succession and ...
Simon Grove
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Mar 6, 2000 11:44 pm
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I've seen "tree cemeteries" used in a very different way - to describe tree plantations in which the trees are all lined up like so many gravestones in a war...
Simon Grove
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Mar 6, 2000 11:51 pm
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Hello John, I think most of us badly need some deeper understanding of the dacay mechanism as well as of host-invador interrelations. At least I need. I do not...
Andrzej Bobiec
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Mar 7, 2000 7:33 am
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Andrzej Bobiec, Yes, there are governement agencies whose mission is conservation of natural resources that are NOT tied to foresty. In the United States...
Patrick J. Shea
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Mar 7, 2000 6:17 pm
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Thank you, class 1 and 2 roads and road density were my major concerns. We can't say much regarding trees along highways, Class 3-5 roads. I will give Steve...