Let’s hug a tree

[zeemike]

Or better yet take a vow to plant at least one this year.

In all the talk about Global warming the focus is on the elimination of the use of fossil fuels and rightly so, but we should not forget about healing this sick earth after we get through poisoning it and it can start now by planting trees.
Trees play an important part in healing what is wrong with the planet by locking up CO2 in there mass and shading the ground slowing the evaporation of water from the soil producing O2 and just plain shade from the hot sun.
And you don’t even have to buy them the US forest service and county ag office usually have programs where they give them away.
You won’t be doing it for yourselves because trees grow slow, but your children will benefit.
Take the pledge today to plant one in 07

[northofdenali]

1. My trees are somewhat frosty just now..........

But I'm online to plant 2 or 3 this spring!

[zeemike]

3. So are mine

But it won't be long before those buds begin to swell.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. ok

:)

[GeneCosta]

4. Deal.

:-)

[zeemike]

5. Welcome to DU GeneCosta n/t

[jdadd]

6. Back in 96...

I planted over 10,000 trees, Figure I'm good to go for awhile...:hi:

[halobeam]

7. Wow.

Thats wild!!

Wish I could do that... some of our trees are dying (disease) breaks my heart. I will be replacing them....

Plus One extra!

It's a great gift to family if you know they'd like that.

[zeemike]

15. Yep you did your part n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

8. I planted 3 last year

and I'm sure I will plant more in '07.

[133724]

9. OK Try these

[Ellipsis]

12. Beautiful

Can't see the second one though (on a mac)

They say "tax time is tree time" to plant a tree.

[zeemike]

16. That is a great picture

It would have been your grandfather or great grandfather that planted those.

[Pathwalker]

10. One? Closer to tentwy this year. At least.

I've got half an acre that needs covering with trees, including a double perimeter to keep out the deer.
I hope fruit trees are okay, because I'm planting several more of them, too. Might as well eat fresh fruit while saving the planet ;-)

I'n not going to hug one today, though - it's bitter cold out today.

[zeemike]

18. All the better

You want something that is close to you to give you a little gift once in a while. And I can think of noting better fruit right off the tree, there is noting better.

[Solly Mack]

11. I already do and have for years

some years I plant 2

[pstans]

13. Great Idea

I have 3 spots in my yard that could use a tree and hope to plant a couple depending on how much the trees cost.

[roguevalley]

14. I pluck 12 endangered seedling pines each fall and winter them over, planting them

in the spring in groups of two or three. it is fun to watch them grow. this year's batch were endangered by a large inground planter and the year before, they were sprouting around a helicopter pad. blue spruce all. its the best and easiest way to grow trees, finding seedlings and replanting them safely.

[zeemike]

19. And doesn't cost a thing

Sounds like a great hobby and you get to be out in the fresh air too.

[sandnsea]

21. My dad used to do that

Instead of thinning his property by chopping trees down, he'd transplant them to around the house where they had cleared when they put it in. Over time, the property became 3 acres of balanced forest and he didn't have to cut any trees to do it.

[zeemike]

23. And it is you and your children

That will see the full benefit of his work.

[BeFree]

17. Good

Then swear you will never fly over the top of it, because high altitude airplane emissions dumping the CO2 up there, where there are no trees, is probably the main cause of the greenhouse effect.

Where you plant that tree, the air can be cleaned, but up there, there is nothing but air.

[zeemike]

20. That is the other end of the problem.

And that must be addressed too but we can help the cleansing out a little with an activity that is fun and useful. a couple of fruit trees where there used to be just grass that you had to mow every week is an improvement in the environment and puts some food on the table.

[nam78_two]

22. K&R.nt

[magellan]

24. Been planting trees since we moved in a few years ago

We've now got two magnolias, two palms, a japanese cherry, a hibiscus, two trees I haven't identified yet (gifts from our neighbors), and lots of drought-resistant shrubs as well. And if hurricane season lays off, we might just keep them all too.

[NJCher]

25. I'm surrounded by trees

And thus have tons of little seedlings each year. Instead of pulling them up, I take them around and put them wherever I can find a place. Yeah, me and my trowel and a little bucket of trees.



Cher

[Porcupine]

26. It's a Spongebob vs. Godzilla maneuver but sure......

go ahead. Plant a tree. Never mind that most of the people reading this board are living East of the Missisipi and therefore displacing the forest that existed before you (well somebody) moved there. Ignore the very high degree of likelihood that every facet of your lifestyle involves pumping more carbon into the atmosphere in a week than a tree can store in several months.

We (the human race that is) need to plant about 20 billion trees in every ecosystem that can possibly support them. Then we need to prune, thin, trim or coppice the trees, burn the prunings down to charcoal, bury it in our farmlands, rinse, wash and repeat for about 200 years.

Then we might have the worlds carbon cycle back in equilibrium and our thrice-great-grandchildren can curse us for the idiot wastrels we are.

[zeemike]

28. 200 years...we had better get started

Yes I know that we must stop burning oil and coal and I am for any radical plan you can come up with to do that, so you can count on my support there. but it does no harm to start cleaning up even before the mess maker is taken care of completely.

[sweetheart]

27. notta problem

Got 1000 whips this winter with 900 still to get in the ground.. 500 are aspens that
produce multiple trees per planting, loving those trees that once planted create several more.

[zeemike]

29. Boy you are a sweetheart

That is pretty ambitious plan, but 20 years from now you will be able to look back on a forest.