421. What makes a healthy tree or plant? The availability in the
proper proportions of the right "STEW" - Space, Temperature, Elements and
Water. And the energy of the sun will be used optimally making a tree into
the most efficient system on earth. Everything is
recycled.
422. With respect to space and coarse woody debris, the importance
of reduction of space by fallen trees with respect to endangered species,
browsing by deer, temperature changes, moisture changes, essential element
capacity, animals, fungi diversity and more, the latter references only suggest
a benefit of fallen trees while showing that removal is only a depleting
act causing dysfunction and disruption to the system here, known as a once
fertile forest.
423. With respect to the thoughts of removing trees from the once fertile
forest in order to create space, add sunlight (thinning - logging) the “Self
Thinning Rule of Ecology” has done a good job for a long time (Hardwick,
1987).
424. Once fertile forest, were logged in the past, or treated in ways,
out of the ignorance of tree biology. This project is proof that it
continues. This is a worldwide problem for trees of a forest and cities.
Now, the promoters of logging today want us to believe that coarse woody
debris serve no purpose, are fire hazards, are supposed to be unsightly,
and if removed would address drought problems of the past as well as help
the forest in future drought. They (USFS practicing foresters on Painter
Run Windthrow Salvage Project) also want us to believe that applying ammonium
nitrate, herbicides, putting up deer fences, road building and planting non-native
grass will replace all the functionality, over time, of the material mentioned
to be removed in the Painter Run Windthrow Salvage Project. Not to
mention, they claim the latter will increase the structural functionality
above as well as below ground and thus increase forest health (sorry again
for going beyond committed boundaries in this document). Thus the foundation
of the false premise, that coarse woody debris serves no purpose to system
health, while removal would? Magicians convince you that the hat is
empty. They start with a false premise (SHIGO, 1999).
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