JIM CONRAD'S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER Issued from the Sierra Nevada Foothills east of Sacramento, California July 17, 2005
***** THE CHICKAREES OF PINO GRANDE This week I biked with my backpack up to an old lumber camp called Pino Grande in El Dorado National Forest at about 4200-ft in elevation. From 1900 to 1950 the Pino Grande operation deforested the slopes for many miles around. Back then they paid little or no attention to the principles of sustainable forestry or the effects of deforestation on soil erosion. Now the area is forested again, though it's easy to see that species diversity there is a fraction of what it should be. Most of the land around Pino Grande is in private hands, not managed by the NFS. Patches of same-aged, evenly spaced, single-species pine mantle thousands of steeply sloped acres. Ecologically what you see has more in common with a cornfield than a healthy mountain forest.... http://www.backyardnature.net/n/05/050717.htm Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com BiFem :) a bifem.net publication -------------------------------- Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem Chatoom: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/chat Visit BiFemLounge our 24 hour chatroom at http://bifem.net Get a New Orleans Free Email account at http://bifem.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
