| Long
Leaf Pine |
edniz |
| Nov
07, 2004 03:19 PST |
Hello,
I get a variety
of book catalogs and I wanted to mention one book
that is currently available from University of North Carolina
Press. The
title is Looking for Longleaf The Fall and Rise
of an American Forest by
Lawrence S. Earley. Publication date is 2004. Sale price is
$25.00. Here
is the blurb from the catalog:
"A learned stroll through the shady groves of the South,
past and present. .
. . Richly detailed, impeccably researched, and at times
controversial:
this merits a place alongside Bartram in the library devoted to
the South."
Ed Nizalowski
Newark Valley, NY |
| Re:
Long Leaf Pine and more |
Fores-@aol.com |
| Nov
07, 2004 05:32 PST |
Bob:
There is a lot currently happening in terms of appreciating
longleaf pine
and the significance of the longleaf pine forest ecosystem that
once covered
more than 30,000,000 acres of the south. From what I understand
there is less
than 300,000 acres of this forest type left today.
Russ |
| RE:
Book on the Long Leaf Pine and more |
Robert
Leverett |
| Nov
08, 2004 05:42 PST |
Russ:
I once heard a lecture by Bill Pratt of LSU on
the longleaf pine
ecosystem and its unusual fire adaptations. The lecture was at
the
University of Arkansas in October 1995. I've often wondered what
may
have changed in the way of our understanding since then.
Bill Pratt had a dry sense of humor and he
enjoyed picking on
ecologists from the Northeast who he regarded as being a little
too
fixated on the forest disturbance regimes of the Northeast. I
didn't
have an opinion on the subject, but enjoyed watching the
good-natured
jocking between Pratt and a couple of northeastern ecologists.
I came away with a better appreciation for the
nature of the
competition among scientists to gain acceptance of and dominance
for
their ideas. The general public often thinks of science as
monolithic
and of scientists as unswervingly objective - not personal
agendas.
Well, certainly scientists are supposed to be that way and I
believe
most make an admirable effort, but human nature IS human nature.
At any rate, at the Arkansas conference, Pratt
argued eloquently for
the role of evolutionary fire adaptation as another model to
explain the
patterns of forest colonization and succession. I wonder what
the
current state is of those theories.
Bob
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