The trees are stealing our water! :matt-jokerfied:

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Conifers can grow a foot a year. Pictures from the turn of the century show 10 to 20 trees per acre and now there are "upwards of 100 to 200 trees"

    Is there any way to estimate the mass of CO2 that this represents?

    Also, "turn of the century" (assuming he means 1900 even though we're 1/4 of the way into a new century...) is so long ago it must represent the primeval state of how the forests should be, right? Oh wait, what's this?

    This form of timber regulation worked well during the initial stages of colonization when the emphasis was on subsistence and property rights were not well established. But, by the time communities were established, stewardship gave way to free enterprise as many settlers took advantage of timber resources for a profit, despite efforts to control resource utilization by Mormon leaders. By the 1880's, timber resources along the Wasatch Front had been reduced to the point that timber was being brought in from the Sierra Nevadas and Chicago

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In the 1800s, America basically did to its own old growth forests what Bolsonaro wanted to do to the Amazon. There's a handful of Very Old Trees left in California, because they were saved by the nascent environmentalist movement after 90% of the 1,000+ year old trees were all cut down.