We Depend On Our Forest For Breathing
Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2010
by David Tanguay
How do trees breathe in the bad air and put out the good air?
Trees breathe in carbon dioxide, which is bad air for us but good air for them. We breathe out carbon dioxide every time we breathe out because we are getting rid of all the bad things in oxygen. When trees breathe in our carbon dioxide, they produce oxygen, which we breathe in.
Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. The main goal of forestry is to create and implement systems that allow forests to continue a sustainable continuation of environmental supplies and services. The challenge of forestry is to create systems that are socially accepted while sustaining the resource and any other resources that might be affected.
Silver culture a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests. Modern forestry generally concerns itself with: assisting forests to provide timber as raw material for wood products; wildlife habitant ; natural water quality management; recreation; landscape and community protection; employment; aesthetically appealing landscapes; biodiversity management; watershed management; erosion control; and a ' sink' for atmospheric carbon dioxide. A practitioner of forestry is known as a forester.
Note that the word "forestry" can also refer to a forest itself. Forest have come to be seen as the most important component of the biosphere, and forestry has emerged as a vital field of science, applied art, and technology.
The above excerpt provided as a courtesy of wikipedia encyclopedia, for a more in-depth explanation of forestry click onto this link.
Logging is the process in which certain trees are cut down for forest management and timber
In forestry the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumberyard. In common usage, however the term may be used to indicate a range of forestry or silviculture activities. For example, the practice of the removal of valuable trees from the forest has been called selective logging, sometimes confused with selection cut
Illegal logging refers to what in forestry might be called timber theft. In common usage what is sometimes called clear-cut logging is not is necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvest or silviculture method and is simply called clear cutting or block cutting. In the forest products, industry-logging companies may be referred as logging contractors.
Ecologically minded timber companies plant two trees for every one tree they harvest.
Logging usually refers to aboveground forestry logging. Submerged forests exist on land that has been flooded by damming to create reservoirs. Such trees are logged using underwater logging or by the lowering of the reservoirs in question. Ootasa and Williston Lake in British Columbia, Canada, are notable examples where timber recovery has been needed to remove inundated forests. More on logging
Logging in the 19th.Century Modern day logging
A Humanist Code of Ethics:
"Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the dignity of his or her labor.
Open your home to the wayfarer.
Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;
sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.
Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.
Never think less of yourself than you are.
Never think that you are more than another." Arthur Dobrin
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Boy - this topic is double edged....we need wood for paper, for building, for so many things - but we need our forests for air quality, for calming our anxiety (try looking into a group of trees when you're anxious - and feel the instant calming effect of being grounded!).
We live in BC - and are surrounded by loggers and tree-huggers :-) and so I can see both sides of the arguments.We bought 2 1/2 acres of land a few years ago, it had been raped and pillaged as a gravel pit for many years. 98% of the trees on our property are now gone - and our property is filled with that vile Scottish Broom (love the look & smell - but it's not a native plant and therefore is invasive and is eradicating everything in it's way). So, we now have the opportunity to re-tree it. The hard part is trying to find a tree nursery where we can buy tree plugs - and not potted trees that run at $15-25 each. We want plugs that are about $1 each - because we want to buy 200-300 of them to re-tree our land - and give back to nature.Please log in to respond to this comment.Yes our forest can have a soothing affect on us by just being in them and enjoying the atmosphere. Thanks for commentingPlease log in to respond to this comment.
Very nice article, sir. It is never to late to educate people about the environment.Please log in to respond to this comment.True Mike, we often take mother nature for granted. We couldn't survive without her.Please log in to respond to this comment.
Great article - I'm a real tree lover myself, and educating people about their benefits as well as their beauty is awesome!Please log in to respond to this comment.Thank you for commenting Val, yes we couldn't survive without our trees.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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