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> --001a11414f484d11f8052b4777aa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable you guys back in the EC Smith days covered the province... Oxford's R Phillip, Meander, Kennetcook, Gaspereau Salmon...we can go on and we should Wherever it was fertile On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:25 PM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > Where were floodplains converted to agriculture in NS ? A smattering > in NB but none is NS that I am aware of. Some Salmon River floodplains we= re > mined for gravel when the 100 series highways were built near there and I > think some floodplains near Oxford were mined. > Floodplains are enriched by the silt deposited by floodwaters each > year; e.g. Nile, Tigrus not by trees which may take advantage of the > enriched soil. > Yt, DW > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Nicholas Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> > *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2016 2:53 PM > *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] two trees to buy a pizza or would we rather a > car with the same two trees? > > Hey John > yes tree roots are purported to be amazing N and P pumps and can take up > nutrients before they reach waterways..90% range according to Maltby who > was working on big rivers of Europe. > when you lose trees you lose these pumps and go to lower functional state= s > and herbaceous plants arent a lick on trees. > > The tree was an engineer of floodplains in big ways and we lost a lot of > that when we converted floodplain for agriculture. This floodplain forest > is what supports a good group of the Appalachian Deciduous Forest > species..bloodroot, blue cohosh Canada violet (?) wild coffee, Canada Lil= y, > wild garlic, yellow violets, toothwort, Solomon's plume..and this is the > habitat we need right now to let us preserve the diversity that is > expanding northward and may be eliminated from Kentucky in time. I'm > looking forward to being able to eat pawpaws, crush spicebush leaves and > swing on forest grape vines in my nineties in Nova Scotia but first we ne= ed > to secure and restore floodplain habitat. > > must be midwinter > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.co= m > > wrote: > >> Hi John & All, >> Any deep-rooted plant will move nutrients to the surface if that is >> what you mean. Grasses are in general better than trees because their fi= ne >> roots can penetrate the pores of rigid soils not accessible to tree root= s. >> This is why Agropyron repens (Couch) is such a vigorous weed. And why th= e >> fertility of Prairie soil is immense. >> Yt, DW >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> >> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2016 12:06 PM >> *Subject:* RE: [NatureNS] two trees to buy a pizza or would we rather a >> car with the same two trees? >> >> When I was a CUSO volunteer in Northeast Thailand, thirty-odd years ago, >> our country Director (a soil scientist by training) called trees =E2=80= =9Cnutrient >> pumps.=E2=80=9D >> >> >> >> Made eminent sense in an area with terrible soils, with minimal organic >> content. >> >> >> >> *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto: >> naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Hill >> *Sent:* February 8, 2016 11:44 AM >> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] two trees to buy a pizza or would we rather a >> car with the same two trees? >> >> >> >> Trees have been called environmental engineers as they make habitat and >> set up the food web. We are very lucky to have neighbours that let us wa= lk >> and bring kids through their woods that are in good condition with large >> mature trees of pines and hemlock. We saw the strips of tree felling fro= m >> the microbursts that we called the Berwick Blow of a few winters ago tha= t >> took out some 200 year old hemlock but we also see blow down along a lin= e >> between two properties where still another neighbour has clearcut and it >> has made it not possible to ski in the adjacent uncut property over a 40= m >> width due to blow down. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:06 AM, David & Alison Webster < >> dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Dusan, >> >> Yes and no. A sufficiently high wind can mow a swath through >> undisturbed forest. And counting Dec 13, 2010 (ignoring Juan because it = was >> local) we have had two high winds recently; one even in May, 2013 (?). A= nd >> many winds which finish the job or start fresh ones. >> >> The Kentville ravine is a good example; the 2010 wind felled a >> significant area of Hemlock/hardwood. In my woods more Poplar went over >> than 5 households could use both as 'scattered' trees of up to 6 in one >> domino and two areas (~1 acre & 2 acres) where nearly every tree went >> down. Most large Spruce which survived 2010 were taken in 2013. >> >> >> >> I think we are in a new era of damaging winds. Note that Juan took >> large trees and spared medium trees. With regard to canopy protection th= is >> no doubt helps but if trees grow with space they are better anchored tha= n >> trees which grow crowded. >> >> Yt, DW >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> *From:* Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> >> >> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2016 9:28 AM >> >> *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] two trees to buy a pizza or would we rather a >> car with the same two trees? >> >> >> >> =EF=BB=BF To Donna, David, et al; >> >> one of the obvious way trees in a forest cooperate is protection against >> strong winds. A solitary tree is unlikely to withstand windstorms, a for= est >> with an intact canopy usually does. But, on the other hand, there is bru= tal >> competition for sunlight in a forest. Taller trees inhibit the growth of >> smaller trees, often their conspecifics and even their own descendants. = Of >> the millions and millions of seeds a mature tree will produce over its >> lifetime, on the average only one will reach maturity... >> >> Dusan Soudek >> >> On February 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM David