Oct 17, 2010: Mighty Trees

[glatt]

Originally Posted by spudcon

I wonder how many tree huggers are living in stick frame housing?

There are trees, and then there are trees.

I'm a woodworker, and I live in a partially stick framed house, but even I want to see a remarkable and rare specimen like the tree in the original post preserved for my kids and grandkids to see.

[spudcon]

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh and almost everyone else feels the same. Conservatives are not the monsters they are portrayed to be.

[Cloud]

yep; it's from NatGeo; and a composite of 84 images

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/re...gatefold-image

[Wombat]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

Is that tree from the National Geographic article a couple months ago?

Yes, I recognise the pic from that article. It was printed as an extra-long fold out side-ways pic, very impressive. I remember the article saying the pic is a composite of many smaller photographs taken from at least four different heights: it had to be done this way because the tree is just too tall to fit in one shot.

[monster]

so how many giant trees in a chilean mine rescue shaft?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Cloud

yep; it's from NatGeo; and a composite of 84 images

I assumed from the edges it was a composite. All my pictures of those trees, barely show the top half in the distance.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by spudcon

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh and almost everyone else feels the same.
Conservatives are not the monsters they are portrayed to be.

Of course they're not... just Rush.

[Pete Zicato]

Zing 2 had a biology teacher who's wife is a professional competitive tree climber. I bet she'd like that tree.

[k012957]

Originally Posted by Elspode

And right now, Rush Limbaugh is looking at that picture and saying to himself, "What good is that tree unless it gets cut down and turned into lumber to be sold so someone can make a profit off of it?"

No, he's looking at that picture and saying to himself, "How wonderful it will be when that tree is cut down, turned into lumber, and made into a professional baseball bat or a concert grand piano."

Just remember to quote the Maha Rushi properly!

[xoxoxoBruce]

"Professional competitive tree climber." How's that for a conversation starter at cocktail parties. I wonder what a headhunter would do with a resume like that.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by k012957

when that tree is cut down, turned into lumber, and made into a
THOUSAND MILLION professional baseball bats or concert grand pianos."

FTFY - and welcome out of hiding

[xoxoxoBruce]

No baseball bats from redwood, pianos either, as far as I know.

[classicman]

Good point. Lots of Decks or planters then.

[Adak]

What a tree! Perspective is nice though. We need a bunch of these beauties, to show our kids what they can be, but a really mature redwood forest is almost barren of wildlife and other plant species.

Redwood tree's have a way of directing rain downward to their own roots, (leaving the other area's rather dry), and the thick duff they drop to the forest floor, inhibits other plants from growing.

The herbivores leave, because there is so little food for them. The birds leave because the plants and the seeds they eat - even the worms - are more scarce or harder to find. The predators leave because their prey has left.

That's why the Indians burned the forests, periodically. If it wouldn't burn, they had to move on, or get other food to supplement the lean pickings available in the forest.

You don't want to do a survival course in a mature growth Redwood forest. There's very little to eat. Water is no problem, but food is. Here's a documentary on one outdoorsman, that tried it, in the Canadian wilderness:

http://www.fastpasstv.com/tv/alone-in-the-wild/

In a mature coniferous forest.

Mature evergreen forests are nice, but they aren't the epitome of Mother Earth at her most bountiful - far from it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

What, no spotted owls?
That forest is nice for camping though. Minimum intrusion by insects, slithery stuff, man eaters, poison ivy, and Jehovah's Witnesses.