At 10:25 AM 7/24/00 +1200, Chris Perley wrote:
>Many refer to plantations as "non-forests".  I don't like it myself, because
>it supports a narrowing of the mind by the foresters.  Many corporates like
>to present it that way to avoid having to care about wildlife and such that
>DO occur in a forest plantations for the simple reason that where trees are,
>so are large amounts of insects.

Actually this had become true. The forest in one TFL here is being called a
plantation. They are not calling it a forest. In fact the term TFL means
Tree Farm Licence which is in contrast with FLA which is acronym for Forest
Licence Agreement. Both are tenures on Public lands here. 
>
>One other point - I cannot speak for the States, but there is a common myth
>here in NZ that plantation forests use heaps of chemicals.  Not so.  The
>levels are tiny compared to agriculture.  Pesticide use is low and getting
>lower.  In NZ the average fertiliser use in forests is 1.5 Kg/ha/yr
>according to forestry scientist Dr Chris Goulding.   Compare that to
>dairying or horticulture - or even extensive grazing.

I am sure that is correct because the figure represents annual total use on
the total area of forest. The same misinformation is presented in the
figures on pesticide useage. We apply at least 60 kg per hectare but that is
only once per rotation. The application rates of herbicide can be juggled by
not referring to the total annual hectares that are 'treated' but rather to
the total herbicide used on the entire forest annual, which biases the
figure downward. 

1.5 kg of fertilizer use would be similar to the amount of fertilizer in the
seedling rooting soil, not the amount that is applied operationally by
helicopter which is much greater than 1.5 kg per hectare. Simply this would
be wasting the money and do no good at all for the hectare of forest.


john foster
The essence is thus the internal determination of to be, that which, when we
conceive to be, we are also forced to conceive: its intrinsic
presupposition. In this its truth consists; essence is radical truth.

The essence of the oak is the "reason" through which this process
"seed-tree-fruit" is a process intrinsically "oaking". And this character of
process which is the essence, Hegel will tell us, is something which we see
ourselves forced to conceive in order that there may be becoming; and
"forced to conceive" is precisely a character of thinking. 

On Essence, Zubiri www.zubiri.org



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