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hehehe finally 1keaboy has a real reason to call me treehugger...
My weekend this weekend was trawling all the gazillions of cafes in Brunwick area sticking up posters for the Rally against the proposed pulp mill in tasmania. Basically this pulp mill is going to be 8 times the size of the largest one currently in australia, and it's going to be fed with 80% native forest (i.e. old forest!!) and use CHLORINE bleaching! wtf?? anyway yes.... i dont' think i'd be as involved as i am, but i can't help it after witnessing the beauty and the absolute terror of seeing it disappear...
Anyway i am REALLY crap at photoshop but i would like you to see this photo that i stitched together jsut so you get an idea how how beautiful these big trees are. This particular one is not in the middle of the rainforest as it should be (hence why i could actually stand that far back and take a pic, there would be hundreds of plants in my way otherwise), but a remnant of a majestic old forest that was there before. this tree was allowed to stay behind after the pretty much logged a large portion of victoria. So yes, to confirm this tree is the same species, but not in the same forests that are unprotected. this is in a national park which means that it will never be logged again.
see them ppl on the bottom left hand corner.. they are standing a few metres away from the tree.. And yes, the top of the tree is fuzzy cos that's cloud cover :)
this tree is 84 metres high (portomaso is 99, you get the idea) and is nowhere near as tall as the tallest one of its kind. This is a find example though, it's currently one of the tallest tree in the world, thanks to the fact that the tallest oldest ones are falling, and because we log all the young'uns then we don't actually give them a change to get to this height :) these trees store WAY more carbon, use less water, and also release more oxygen and create rain (along with their counterparts in the forest). :D
and this is what it looks like dead. they can remain standing for years, even like 60-100 years. they will fall eventually and feed fungi, ferns, lichens and other plants for hundreds and hundreds of years (400 years later the tree will still be there, covered in mosses and beautiful ferns :))
We call these trees Stags, they stand many metres above the canopy of the forest, and their white dead branches look like.. well... stag antlers hehehe. All eucalypts do this for a while, but the regnans stags are incredible, you feel like they are literally about to fall, any minute... and if you have ever heard one fall, it's a pretty freakin loud sound! quite scary! i was in the dandenongs last year when a baby one fell, it was increible! and i didnt even SEE the fallen tree, just heard it. it was astounding.
anyway enough tree talk.... i feel like a fucking hippy. shut up tyn.
on a side note, we're having a working bee/party on saturday to paint banners etc... and then i'm working on sunday at an open day (work not tree related)... so i guess my next real day off will be 1st june! holy crap!
My weekend this weekend was trawling all the gazillions of cafes in Brunwick area sticking up posters for the Rally against the proposed pulp mill in tasmania. Basically this pulp mill is going to be 8 times the size of the largest one currently in australia, and it's going to be fed with 80% native forest (i.e. old forest!!) and use CHLORINE bleaching! wtf?? anyway yes.... i dont' think i'd be as involved as i am, but i can't help it after witnessing the beauty and the absolute terror of seeing it disappear...
Anyway i am REALLY crap at photoshop but i would like you to see this photo that i stitched together jsut so you get an idea how how beautiful these big trees are. This particular one is not in the middle of the rainforest as it should be (hence why i could actually stand that far back and take a pic, there would be hundreds of plants in my way otherwise), but a remnant of a majestic old forest that was there before. this tree was allowed to stay behind after the pretty much logged a large portion of victoria. So yes, to confirm this tree is the same species, but not in the same forests that are unprotected. this is in a national park which means that it will never be logged again.
see them ppl on the bottom left hand corner.. they are standing a few metres away from the tree.. And yes, the top of the tree is fuzzy cos that's cloud cover :)
this tree is 84 metres high (portomaso is 99, you get the idea) and is nowhere near as tall as the tallest one of its kind. This is a find example though, it's currently one of the tallest tree in the world, thanks to the fact that the tallest oldest ones are falling, and because we log all the young'uns then we don't actually give them a change to get to this height :) these trees store WAY more carbon, use less water, and also release more oxygen and create rain (along with their counterparts in the forest). :D
and this is what it looks like dead. they can remain standing for years, even like 60-100 years. they will fall eventually and feed fungi, ferns, lichens and other plants for hundreds and hundreds of years (400 years later the tree will still be there, covered in mosses and beautiful ferns :))
We call these trees Stags, they stand many metres above the canopy of the forest, and their white dead branches look like.. well... stag antlers hehehe. All eucalypts do this for a while, but the regnans stags are incredible, you feel like they are literally about to fall, any minute... and if you have ever heard one fall, it's a pretty freakin loud sound! quite scary! i was in the dandenongs last year when a baby one fell, it was increible! and i didnt even SEE the fallen tree, just heard it. it was astounding.
anyway enough tree talk.... i feel like a fucking hippy. shut up tyn.
on a side note, we're having a working bee/party on saturday to paint banners etc... and then i'm working on sunday at an open day (work not tree related)... so i guess my next real day off will be 1st june! holy crap!