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2007-04-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Reforestation Picking Up in Many Parts of the World

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Posted by Shineting Angomoth2245 2007-04-10 15:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I've long wondered why the US government has never carried out forestation projects on the Indian Reservations.

Granted while many of these areas were never forested to begin with, with some creative science, varieties of trees could be introduced that would survive and prosper.

By agreement, the tribes would manage their new forests with an eye to improving their standard of living, even if it just made their Reservation more tourism friendly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-10 17:16|| 2007-04-10 17:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The May, 2007, Popular Mechanics arrived in my mailbox yesterday, and it has a good article on deforestation and tracking where lumber is coming from, both legally and illegally (90% of Peru's illegally harvested lumber goes to the U.S.).

Unfortunately, the article is not (yet?) posted on their site, but it's worth a read.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-04-10 17:25|| 2007-04-10 17:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Reforestation / forest management is, along with fisheries management, one of those environmental initiatives over which man has almost total control. We burn or cut the trees down, we can plant them again. There is an obvious cause and effect here. Same with the fish. Totally opposite situation from "Global Warming".

Posted by remoteman 2007-04-10 17:52|| 2007-04-10 17:52|| Front Page Top

#4 See, right in paragraph 4, they blame Bush fires.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-04-10 22:40|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-04-10 22:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I live in a city with over two million trees. Two hundred years ago, the area was arid plains. There are more trees in Denver than ever grew there naturally. Most of the deforestation in the world today is done to grow food or to make money. It's done in areas where the methods of growing food is primitive, and other sources of income are non-existant. Free enterprise, recognition of personal property rights, and representative government would do wonders for forestation, and just about every other problem in the world. Case in point: There are more trees in Israel than there are in either the Gaza/West Bank or Lebanon. Israel is one-third the size of Jordan, and produces three times as much food. Israel exports food, the Palestinian Authority has to import it, yet the two exist in the same climatic conditions. The problem is how people live and are governed, not what's available.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-10 23:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-10 23:39|| Front Page Top

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