Slowing global warming.AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens : Where and what can we plant in the U.S. with global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. in mind? Is there time to plant near the coasts or should I designate my donations for inland forests? Mary A. Regier Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the Howard Burnett responds: Your question is a good one, but it does not have a simple clear-cut answer. Trees are approximately 50 percent carbon--some species more, some less--but that's a workable average in terms of a carbon sink to prevent the equivalent in atmospheric carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. . It is easy to say, then, that trees that grow the most tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. of wood would be best at preventing global warming, and that those trees on the best sites would be the best of all. And that is the simple answer to your question: plant the fastest-growing trees, probably southern pines, on moist sites in the deep South. But there are other considerations. What about establishing trees where there are none now? That way whatever growth was achieved would be a plus. Or perhaps other trees on better sites might replace poorer species or thinner stands. Growing maximum tons of wood might mandate something like the pine monocultures now used by some pulpwood pulp·wood n. Soft wood, such as spruce, aspen, or pine, used in making paper. pulpwood Noun pine, spruce, or any other soft wood used to make paper Noun 1. operators, but would that really be the best treatment of the environment, when you consider the needs of wildlife, watershed watershed, elevation or divide separating the catchment area, or drainage basin, of one river system or group of river systems from another system or group of systems. The term is also often used synonymously with drainage basin. values, and so forth? AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf program was begun in 1988 with a goal of planting trees, especially reestablishing native species where they had been removed or replaced with alternate species. To date more that 23 million trees have been so planted. Not all those trees are getting the maximum possible tonnage of carbon locked up in their wood, but lots of acres are contributing to the overall good. I wish I could give you a clear-cut answer to your question, but donations to folks--like AMERICAN FORESTS--who can compare possible planting sites against each other, might be my choice. Either way, getting more trees in the ground is the right thing to do, and I commend you for your interest in this important topic. |
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