http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/29/the-good-ol-forest-growth-curve-update/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/29/the-good-ol-forest-growth-curve-update/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:24:17 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22248 While the New Jersey bill failed, it is going to be discussed in New Jersey’s Senate Environment Committee on Monday, January 30, 2012. The discussion is not yet over regarding New Jersey’s public forests. The discussion about ecosystem productivity over time also continues in the forum of the Native Tree Society. Specifically, this post was picked [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/29/the-good-ol-forest-growth-curve-update/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/27/arboreally-speaking-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/27/arboreally-speaking-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:32:03 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=21248 In the previous post, I outlined the argument lighting up parts of the New Jersey legislature and the human elements of its ecological communities. Briefly, one reason some people are using to promote logging on public lands is the perception that old trees and forests are dying of old age. While there are other arguments [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/27/arboreally-speaking-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/20/arboreally-speaking-size-not-age-matters-or-why-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/20/arboreally-speaking-size-not-age-matters-or-why-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:32:51 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=21181 “There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees“…I will mostly spare you one of the more ecologically correct, forest ecology rock tunes (the next two lines, however, “For the maples want more sunlight, and the oaks ignore their pleas,” written in 1978, seem incredibly prescient given that one of the first [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/20/arboreally-speaking-size-not-age-matters-or-why-the-good-old-growth-curve-is-a-delusion/feed/ 2