Our Planet

At the rate that mankind is reaping and pillaging our lands such as deforestation and not replacing what is taken. We as the superior of the animal kingdom should be the ones that are managing and caring for the resources that Mother Earth has provided us with. For every tree that we cut we should be replacing with ten and maybe someday we will catch up to stabilize the deforestation that has already happened. I understand that we use a lot of lumber and have a need for it. But if it takes thirty seconds to a minute to cut a tree, limb it and get it ready to put on a truck and fifteen to twenty years for it to become that same size of tree well I guess we are on a road of no return. Then there is the pine beetle, it’s like Mother Nature stating if you don’t take care of this forest I will. Forest fires are important to the regrowth and cleansing of the forest. We are always trying to put them out to save the trees. I know! We hate to see all those trees go to waste. It’s a Catch-22.
Farmed trees are planted in rows and let grow from fifteen to twenty years then cut and replanted. The management people of these farms state that there is more wild life and ecosystem in that forest than there is in an eighty year old forest with a canopy, it seems that the canopy lets no sunlight threw to the forest floor which is knee deep in pine needles and so acidic that nothing will grow. There is a positive side to the tree farms; more tree management farms are needed, in Canada and United States. A win; win situation.
Then there is the very fragile ecosystem of the Rain Forests, and what deforestation is causing in that part of the world.

…The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the Earth. Many of them come from the tattered edges of the rain forest or tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people. The tropical rain forests are the reservoirs of life on the planet… (including) viruses, since all living things carry viruses. In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the… flooding of people, and the dead spots of concrete all over the planet....
Quote…. Richard Preston The Hot Zone

Read this link. www.richardpreston.net/books/hz.html
Then click on, read excerpt from his book Hot Zone, if you have not already read his book. It’s a terrifying true story. Can we save this world; at least through the UBBT we are trying.
Sifu Hayes Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada