2004-12-02
LAND USE PLANNING
We'll still have forests as the planet changes itself | Things, however, might not be as we now recognize them to be |
A warming trend could shift the range for many North American forest species by about 300 km [200 mi.] to the north | If the climate changes slowly, warmer temperatures may enable the trees to colonize north into areas that are currently too cold, at about the same rate as southern areas became too hot and dry for the species to survive |
Actually, I write this now out of frustration with an individual who doesn't know t he forest for the trees, so to speak | As we endeavor to protect land from unnecessary sprawl, along comes a know-nothing know-it-all who thinks that the only forest that needs preserving is that which could be easily developed into lots or shopping malls | The individual has not displayed any real understanding about what forest stewardship is about, just in what a community purchase might do to the mill rate on one's own piece of property | Frustrating dealing with those smart enough to get an MBA but too dense to understand the complexities of natural processes |
We'll still have forests as the planet changes itself | Things, however, might not be as we now recognize them to be |
A warming trend could shift the range for many North American forest species by about 300 km [200 mi.] to the north | If the climate changes slowly, warmer temperatures may enable the trees to colonize north into areas that are currently too cold, at about the same rate as southern areas became too hot and dry for the species to survive |
Actually, I write this now out of frustration with an individual who doesn't know t he forest for the trees, so to speak | As we endeavor to protect land from unnecessary sprawl, along comes a know-nothing know-it-all who thinks that the only forest that needs preserving is that which could be easily developed into lots or shopping malls | The individual has not displayed any real understanding about what forest stewardship is about, just in what a community purchase might do to the mill rate on one's own piece of property | Frustrating dealing with those smart enough to get an MBA but too dense to understand the complexities of natural processes |
FOREST LINKS: Friends of Trees | Urban forestry Resources | American Forests | World Forestry Center | Center for Urban Forest Research |
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