Value of Old Growth

All,

Here are two new items that are ancillary to our discussions and I thought some of you might be interested in. The Lussaert et al. just out in Nature is important for the discussion of the role of old forests and carbon sequestration. There has been a lot of argument about this, with some suggesting that "forest" carbon is best sequestered as 2x4s, and that old forests do not have any net gain of C. This assessment of a broad group of studies shows the opposite.

The second news piece on Bialowieza forest in Poland is interesting, and give some prespective on discussions similar to ours taking place elsewhere, with much longer intensive land use histories.

David

Note from Nancy: these two readings are now in the readings box.

Field Trip Details

Two vans will be going up to Sylvania, one leaving at 9 am on Friday and one at 4:30 pm on Friday, after the ecology symposium. (I'm assuming that you'll be in the 4:30 van, but email me if you'd like to go in the 9 am van). Please meet behind Russell Labs about 10 minutes before the van is due to depart. We will return Sunday evening, getting back to Russell Labs around 6-7 ish, depending on traffic.

Phone #s:
Nancy 608 214 5196
David 608 843 4332
Bob 608 852 4218
Sara 808 895 0442
Mike 715 304 7390

Things to bring:
Hiking boots (we'll hike 5 to 7 miles on Saturday, rain or shine, on trails in the wilderness area)
Spare dry shoes
Rain gear
WARM clothes--fleece, especially.
Flashlight or head lamp
Water bottle, small day pack for your lunch while hiking
Bath towels (the cabins provide sheets and blankets, but not bath towels. I may need a couple of you to bring sleeping bags and pads, in case we have more people than beds in the two cabins we have rented).
A little cash for snacks on the drive--we'll figure out costs for groceries and cabins next week

We are staying at the Sylvania Wilderness Cabins, just outside the Sylvania WIlderness.
Here's the website: http://www.sylvaniawildernesscabins.com/
For directions and a map: http://www.sylvaniawildernesscabins.com/contact.html

For more info about the wilderness area and a useful map (please print this out), see
http://www.sylvaniawildernesscabins.com/page04.html

Sylvania Wilderness Cabins
E21831 Crooked Lake Road, Watersmeet, MI 49969

Readings for Oct 22 and Nov 5

Part 3 The Lumber Era 1860s to 1910s
October 22

Michael Williams, chapter 7 from Americans and their Forests.

Increase Lapham et al 1867, "Report on the Disastrous Effects of the Destruction of Forest Trees, Now Going on so Rapidly in the State of Wisconsin."

Filbert Roth, on logging.

OCT 29--no class; David is out of town

Nov. 5

Steen-Adams, M.M., N.E. Langston, and D.J. Mladenoff. “Indian history of the Great Lakes Lumber Era: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe,” manuscript in prep.

White, Mark and David Mladenoff. “Old-growth forest landscape transitions from pre-European settlement to present.” Landscape Ecology 9 (2004): 191-205.


Gates, D. M., C. H. D Clarke, and James T. Harris, “Wildlife in a Changing Environment,” 52-82 in Susan Flader, ed. The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History (U of MN: 1983)