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< --Apple-Mail-815E34C6-199E-4B6A-B15D-478C1D8944D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Burning anything is putting carbon back in the atmosphere. Far better to sup= er insulate our homes and burn little to nothing. Mary Macaulay, P.Eng. > On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:59 PM, "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com> w= rote: >=20 > Hi All, Dec 4, 2013 > I sense some politically correct ideas floating to the surface in thes= e recent e-mails so I wish to interject some biologically correct ideas. > =20 > Snags sometimes can be good centers of biodiversity; no question. They= sometimes can be, after bark is shed, quite barren of activity including fu= ngal growth, until they fall and gain earth contact. > =20 > Pileated, although they sometimes will work a dead snag or a fallen ro= tten birch they mostly feed on ants in live softwood trees (Hemlock, Fir, Sp= ruce) and something (probably ants) near the tops of Poplar. Usually when I p= rune branches from Hardwood trees in the yard I leave stubs 2-8' long. Downy= & Hairy feed on these as they age but I have yet to see a Pileated there. B= ut just a few feet away I usually see a Pileated every year or so on the liv= e Crack-Willow (arthropods in bark crevices ?) and when the Five-fingered Iv= y fruits, feeding upside down on these vines which have climbed a Black Cher= ry. Pileated also like Dogwood fruit and I watched one strip a shrub, upside= down again, while I ate lunch. > =20 > And one of the best ways to provide growth & feeding opportunities in l= ive, dying and dead trees into the future is to burn more wood and less petr= ochemical fuels. Except for the carbon cost of cutting and hauling wood, the= burning of wood is carbon neutral, in spite of short-sighted foolishness to= the contrary. On the other hand all of the carbon in petrochemicals is new t= o the atmosphere and by the time they arrive in your dooryard already have a= large carbon burden; exploration, extraction & transportation. > =20 > The wood should of course be cut selectively, with an eye to giving he= althy long-lived trees adequate room and encouraging a wide diversity of tre= e and shrub species. But burning wood cut in any way is a step in the right d= irection. > =20 > Yt DW > "To save the forest you must burn trees" DW 2013 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nancy P Dowd > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:41 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Leave those old snags up! >=20 > And when all else fails leave as much of the trunk and limbs as possible = on the forest floor to benefit the birds, plants etc. This is what I had t= hem do with my old dying maple that was in the path of the excavator at the c= amp.=20 >=20 > Nancy > Sent from my iPhone >=20 >> On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Rick Ballard <ideaphore@gmail.com> wrote: >>=20 >> A better link than the gigantic google url is : http://assets.panda.org/d= ownloads/deadwoodwithnotes.pdf >>=20 >>=20 >>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Rick Ballard <ideaphore@gmail.com> wrote= : >>>=20 >>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.c= a> wrote: >>>> "c >>>> heck out the 16-page paper on Dead Wood that was done several years ago= by the World Wildlife Fund" >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Eurocentric, but an interesting read. >>>=20 >>> Dead Wood - Living Forests pdf >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> --=20 >>> Rick Ballard=20 >>> Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> --=20 >> Rick Ballard=20 >> Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6892 - Release Date: 12/04/13 --Apple-Mail-815E34C6-199E-4B6A-B15D-478C1D8944D4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Burning anything is putting carbon back in the atmosphere. Far better to super insulate our homes and burn little to nothing.<br><br>Mary Macaulay, P.Eng.<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:59 PM, "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.23536"> <style></style> <div>Hi All, Dec 4, 2013</div> <div> I sense some politically correct ideas floating to the surface in these recent e-mails so I wish to interject some biologically correct ideas.</div> <div> </div> <div> Snags sometimes can be good centers of biodiversity; no question. They sometimes can be, after bark is shed, quite barren of activity including fungal growth, until they fall and gain earth contact. </div> <div> </div> <div> Pileated, although they sometimes will work a dead snag or a fallen rotten birch they mostly feed on ants in live softwood trees (Hemlock, Fir, Spruce) and something (probably ants) near the tops of Poplar. Usually when I prune branches from Hardwood trees in the yard I leave stubs 2-8' long. Downy & Hairy feed on these as they age but I have yet to see a Pileated there. But just a few feet away I usually see a Pileated every year or so on the live Crack-Willow (arthropods in bark crevices ?) and when the Five-fingered Iv