12-year-old girl's heartfelt letter saves B.C. forest
raydan @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:23 pm
Sure they do... wine, women and trees... didn't you get the memo? 
peck420 @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:28 pm
Xort Xort:
Why? Is a tree better the older it gets?
Yes.
Zipperfish @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:44 pm
peck420 peck420:
Hard to get more 1,000 year old trees if we can cut down everything around 100.
Time to start building up, rather then out.
Time to start building up, rather then out.
Yip. Though building up has its challneges too, especially given dated swer/water/road infrastructure. Still, it's heartening that most of teh big thinking on sustainability these days is coming from municipalities, not prov/fed governments.
Zipperfish @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:45 pm
peck420 peck420:
Xort Xort:
Why? Is a tree better the older it gets?
Yes.
Not only that, from an endangered species perspective you need both. You need diversity. Some species are evolved to survive in old growth forests, others in newer growth.
BartSimpson @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:44 pm
This isn't even a 'forest'. It's a grove of trees that were planted by Henry Bose after he bought the reclaimed land for a dairy in 1898. The grove of trees dates back to about 1906-1908 and the trees are not natural to the area that was originally a tidewater marsh.
Gunnair @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:47 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
This isn't even a 'forest'. It's a grove of trees that were planted by Henry Bose after he bought the reclaimed land for a dairy in 1898. The grove of trees dates back to about 1906-1908 and the trees are not natural to the area that was originally a tidewater marsh.
Well then look at it as a rare green space in a wasteland of strip malls and suburbs.
Xort @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:19 pm
Gunnair Gunnair:
Well then look at it as a rare green space in a wasteland of strip malls and suburbs.
No, no it's not. Try driving around the Surrey/Langely area it's hugely covered in green spaces.
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Not only that, from an endangered species perspective you need both. You need diversity. Some species are evolved to survive in old growth forests, others in newer growth.
For example the species that is endangered that lives only in old growth forests and will not live in 100 year old forests is the:
And this is the part where you provide a name.
Gunnair @ Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:33 pm
Xort Xort:
Gunnair Gunnair:
Well then look at it as a rare green space in a wasteland of strip malls and suburbs.
No, no it's not. Try driving around the Surrey/Langely area it's hugely covered in green spaces.
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Not only that, from an endangered species perspective you need both. You need diversity. Some species are evolved to survive in old growth forests, others in newer growth.
For example the species that is endangered that lives only in old growth forests and will not live in 100 year old forests is the:
And this is the part where you provide a name.
I guess you are unaware what a tree looks like, Xort. Hint, dark green are trees. There's not a lot of them in that Google Earth pic.
Xort @ Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:59 pm
Gunnair Gunnair:
[I guess you are unaware what a tree looks like, Xort. Hint, dark green are trees. There's not a lot of them in that Google Earth pic.
Their are a huge number of trees in Surrey/Langley, as well as farm land and undeveloped green spaces.
Not many trees in the Vancouver Burnaby area:
BartSimpson @ Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:49 pm
Gunnair Gunnair:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
This isn't even a 'forest'. It's a grove of trees that were planted by Henry Bose after he bought the reclaimed land for a dairy in 1898. The grove of trees dates back to about 1906-1908 and the trees are not natural to the area that was originally a tidewater marsh.
Well then look at it as a rare green space in a wasteland of strip malls and suburbs.
Give it a couple years for the girl to grow up and go off to college and late some night the trees will be cut down without notice and the place bulldozed before anyone else gets it into their heads to protect it.
Gunnair @ Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:59 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Gunnair Gunnair:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
This isn't even a 'forest'. It's a grove of trees that were planted by Henry Bose after he bought the reclaimed land for a dairy in 1898. The grove of trees dates back to about 1906-1908 and the trees are not natural to the area that was originally a tidewater marsh.
Well then look at it as a rare green space in a wasteland of strip malls and suburbs.
Give it a couple years for the girl to grow up and go off to college and late some night the trees will be cut down without notice and the place bulldozed before anyone else gets it into their heads to protect it.
You must be a real Debbie Downer in person.