What does the Hubble Space Telescope have to do with this?
Wow, the recoil on that thing.
sploosh
Other than fruit orchards and xmas tree farms, the first time I ever saw trees as a row crop was in Florida in 2005. Must be thousands of acres of pines, all in neat rows. I guess it's better than thousands of (more) acres of strip malls and subdivisions, at least.
In the book I posted yesterday, which Blue mentions below, I learned that plantation trees are planted too far apart to encourage them to grow into 2×4's as fast as possible. In real forests they grow so close together that they can communicate with each other through their roots, fungi in the soil, and gasses the emit and sense; on plantations they lose that ability and become less resistant to disease and predators.
In other words they lose the ability to communicate with and help each other. Sort of like families in exurban McMansions who never meet their neighbors and imagine that the purpose of Agenda XXI bikeways is to allow criminals to ride out from cities and rob them.
Here's how you can help.
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Also:
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I don't know why that reminds me of [this.]
HAH!!!
The problem with this scenario is that, out West, the forests are going ahead and burning themselves.
Let's get in there and clear-cut 'em while we still can!
Maybe they're having a civil war? Or mass murder/suicide? We can't know!
Along the same lines, if an area gets clear cut, what with climate change and all, what guarantee is there that the replanting will thrive?
Is [this] what it must feel like?
Tempting to fill the 'ville with things that came up in related YT videos, but I , for once, am going to show some restraint.
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Maybe necessary, but not sufficient.
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Not sure what that is. Would HST approve?
| "Fungus Cannons", | so yes, he probably would.
Oh, okay, I thought it might involve sugar cubes.
What does the Hubble Space Telescope have to do with this?
Wow, the recoil on that thing.
sploosh
Other than fruit orchards and xmas tree farms, the first time I ever saw trees as a row crop was in Florida in 2005. Must be thousands of acres of pines, all in neat rows. I guess it's better than thousands of (more) acres of strip malls and subdivisions, at least.
In the book I posted yesterday, which Blue mentions below, I learned that plantation trees are planted too far apart to encourage them to grow into 2×4's as fast as possible. In real forests they grow so close together that they can communicate with each other through their roots, fungi in the soil, and gasses the emit and sense; on plantations they lose that ability and become less resistant to disease and predators.
In other words they lose the ability to communicate with and help each other. Sort of like families in exurban McMansions who never meet their neighbors and imagine that the purpose of Agenda XXI bikeways is to allow criminals to ride out from cities and rob them.
Agenda 21 (TM) is my favorite real estate agency.
Lot, send Hidden Life of Trees to Susan Collins.
[There's still hope!] Cover shot is of my friend Genny and our mutual friend Greg…
Cool.
Do senators read books? Do Republicans read books?
You know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
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