Status: U
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:57:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd:Bio-Remediation of Stream Banks through Indigenous Plant Groupings
To: Hugh Lovel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Allan, Hugh, etal,
There is bio-chemical reation among 2 plant species of Southeastern Soils that may provide some long term drought remediation. Both do well on soils classified as being poor.
Bayberry(aka; candleberry, waxberry, myrtle, wax myrtle) is a shrub that flowers in April/May and produces wax-berries. These berries were once collected by Colonists to make candles. It takes approximately a bushel of berries to make 4 to 5 pounds of wax.
The Yellow "hardwood" pine has the same approximate range as that of bayberry and has been used in tar and turpentine production. During the industrial process, turpentine is collected in barrels, as a condensate of the boiling of sap, whose staves have been glued together to prevent leakage. This turpentine is sometimes used as a vehicle in the waxing of floors to give a consistent spread.
As temperatures rise as is normal on lowlands in summer, after the formation of mature berries, the sun irradiate this plant community in the late afternoon; as the soil breathes in. It is the heating of both species together that creates an atmospheric extrude with the in-breathing of soil that allows for the admixture to seal even the finest soil spaces in afternoon and evening.
This is not an immediate but a long term solution. The most interesting aspect of this process is that at exactly the time when a soil can become weakened through heating is when this waxing can take place to offset rapid moisture evaporation and soil fall.
You know, I don't think I've ever heard or read the subject of vegtable waxes ever discussed by Steiner or any. Perhaps this is not of a concern to people oriented in Mountain cultures but the closer one is to the coast, the more important these interactions become. Clays for sure are important, of that there is no doubt in their cationic abilites but there is a limit to the time-span through which new clays are created. This grouping can be an annual dynamic sealant through vegtal matter.
Sincerely,
Michael.
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