I saw this video 3 years ago.It really helped me to connect.I share with my 6 year old Grand baby she is always concerned with the welfare of plants and trees.your an awesome teacher.Miigwetch
Very nice video! Thinking about all of those beautiful trees reminded me of a little article that I wrote towards the end of 2019, and I thought maybe some others who are involved with the Western New York Land Conservancy would enjoy reading it. Most sincerely, 🌳🌳🌳 - j q t - 🌳🌳🌳 Ancient Magnificent Forests I spoke to, knew, and remember two of my eight great grandparents. And in addition, I can recall vividly a few other relatives who were born prior to the 20th century and who entered my young life. I had quite intense discussions (for a ten-year-old) with my father's mother's mother's fourth husband, whom she would also out-live like three others before him! And another relative of similar vintage actually lived in our house for several weeks while completely repairing and restoring an old, upright piano that my mom, before having five kids, had brought into both the marriage and household. He took me shopping into stores that I didn't know existed, and haggled over prices of everything, from piano strings and keys, to varnish, to miscellaneous hardware items. He was fascinated by wood glues, and he told me that his favorite invention during his long lifetime was the electric blanket, "Set to LOW, mind you." At nearly ninety years of age, he walked with us children to the nearest ice cream store, which was nearly a mile away. He was an immigrant. When these people, people that I both knew and talked to, and that indeed am related to, were born, the American Forest was still resplendent with Chestnut Trees, from South to North. Yet by the time I was born, just past the midway point between the 19th and the 20th century, they were essentially all gone. I can read about these Chestnut Trees today as though they were some magnificent, lost, Native American Tribe or People, and I cannot think about them without a profound sadness. In just one hundred years, they were virtually gone. They have been so nearly perfectly eradicated that if you find a decent-sized Chestnut Tree today, people will often plan a vacation just to see it. Then they'll keep its location a secret. "Somewhere close to Lake Erie" might be your only clue! Lower Michigan is a good place to look, or so I hear. But what is a hundred, or even a thousand years, to a species of tree? At age sixteen, as soon as I could drive, I plowed my way across New York State, at least once each summer, ostensibly to pursue my love for Wild Trout. I didn't know at the time that I was also looking at birds and rocks and plants and things, at trees and streams and creeks and things. I marveled at the wilderness that still remained in this well-worn state, seeing abandoned canals along one side of the road, and boulders the size of houses that were left by receding glaciers over ten thousand years ago on the other side of the road, all while cruising along a well-engineered highway at well over a mile per minute, with too many windows to count open on my 1960s vintage, nine-passenger station wagon. Although I would almost always cling to the two-lane highways, ancient roads with exotic numbers such as 9N, at times it was more practical and expedient to hop on the Interstate, especially those that had no tolls. Interstate 87 is a particularly interesting specimen, for as it blazes through some of the most primitive areas of the northern, New York State Adirondack Mountains, it boasts a gentle grade, and along its more remote sections (at least when I was last there, long before the invention of the mobile phone), it even maintained a network of having an emergency telephone located at nearly every mile! At its more southern end, it straddles the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley, just northwest of New York City. And in a little area not far from here, just this week, in December 2019, a few fossils from an ancient forest were discovered in this area. No, not from 386 years ago, and not from 386 thousand years ago, but from 386 million years ago! We worry about Climate Change and we shed tears for having lost the Chestnut Trees (as we should), but let's not lose sight of what we may be losing or may have lost: Nature is doing just fine! It is more important, I think, to regard not what is happening to and in nature, but what is happening to nature as it regards US. The Chestnut Trees, or something equally magnificent, will ultimately take their place; but meanwhile, it is US people who shall miss them, and who do miss them. Our species is barely ancient enough to have left its own fossils, and along our journey, we've added some tools, some language, and we've added controlled fire to the equation. But just a few miles from where I sit writing this, there exist 386 million-year-old fossils of forested areas that covered the size of many present-day states! I'm not sure whether to call this hopeful, or profound, or to just describe it as it is, and stand in awe. I'd do almost anything to see what those ancient forests were like. I'd also do almost anything to see what they'll look like in another million, or hundred million, years. But most of all: I wish that I could have walked the Appalachian Trail just once and done so one hundred years ago, and had seen those magnificent Chestnut Trees. I hear they were really something, and I heard it from living people. - j q t - December 2019 nypost.com/2019/12/19/evidence-of-worlds-oldest-forest-unearthed-in-upstate-new-york/ www.newscientist.com/article/2228299-fossil-trees-reveal-worlds-oldest-forest-grew-on-new-york-mountains/
Western Science has been indeed combined with mixed aboriginal…in our health as in Chi gong chi lel combined with w. Med to fight cancers successfully. Anything about forest bathing to help change over viewpoints?
Contiguous forests… can comprehensive corridors be made with deepened soil ie overlandbridges spanning interstates? Relationships with trees:We notice the benefits of what trees and forests do for us…are there any studies or indigenous knowledge of the forests benefiting?
I saw this video 3 years ago.It really helped me to connect.I share with my 6 year old Grand baby she is always concerned with the welfare of plants and trees.your an awesome teacher.Miigwetch
Very nice video! Thinking about all of those beautiful trees reminded me of a little article that I wrote towards the end of 2019, and I thought maybe some others who are involved with the Western New York Land Conservancy would enjoy reading it. Most sincerely, 🌳🌳🌳 - j q t - 🌳🌳🌳
Ancient Magnificent Forests
I spoke to, knew, and remember two of my eight great grandparents. And in addition, I can recall vividly a few other relatives who were born prior to the 20th century and who entered my young life. I had quite intense discussions (for a ten-year-old) with my father's mother's mother's fourth husband, whom she would also out-live like three others before him! And another relative of similar vintage actually lived in our house for several weeks while completely repairing and restoring an old, upright piano that my mom, before having five kids, had brought into both the marriage and household. He took me shopping into stores that I didn't know existed, and haggled over prices of everything, from piano strings and keys, to varnish, to miscellaneous hardware items. He was fascinated by wood glues, and he told me that his favorite invention during his long lifetime was the electric blanket, "Set to LOW, mind you." At nearly ninety years of age, he walked with us children to the nearest ice cream store, which was nearly a mile away. He was an immigrant.
When these people, people that I both knew and talked to, and that indeed am related to, were born, the American Forest was still resplendent with Chestnut Trees, from South to North. Yet by the time I was born, just past the midway point between the 19th and the 20th century, they were essentially all gone. I can read about these Chestnut Trees today as though they were some magnificent, lost, Native American Tribe or People, and I cannot think about them without a profound sadness. In just one hundred years, they were virtually gone. They have been so nearly perfectly eradicated that if you find a decent-sized Chestnut Tree today, people will often plan a vacation just to see it. Then they'll keep its location a secret. "Somewhere close to Lake Erie" might be your only clue! Lower Michigan is a good place to look, or so I hear. But what is a hundred, or even a thousand years, to a species of tree?
At age sixteen, as soon as I could drive, I plowed my way across New York State, at least once each summer, ostensibly to pursue my love for Wild Trout. I didn't know at the time that I was also looking at birds and rocks and plants and things, at trees and streams and creeks and things. I marveled at the wilderness that still remained in this well-worn state, seeing abandoned canals along one side of the road, and boulders the size of houses that were left by receding glaciers over ten thousand years ago on the other side of the road, all while cruising along a well-engineered highway at well over a mile per minute, with too many windows to count open on my 1960s vintage, nine-passenger station wagon. Although I would almost always cling to the two-lane highways, ancient roads with exotic numbers such as 9N, at times it was more practical and expedient to hop on the Interstate, especially those that had no tolls.
Interstate 87 is a particularly interesting specimen, for as it blazes through some of the most primitive areas of the northern, New York State Adirondack Mountains, it boasts a gentle grade, and along its more remote sections (at least when I was last there, long before the invention of the mobile phone), it even maintained a network of having an emergency telephone located at nearly every mile! At its more southern end, it straddles the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley, just northwest of New York City. And in a little area not far from here, just this week, in December 2019, a few fossils from an ancient forest were discovered in this area. No, not from 386 years ago, and not from 386 thousand years ago, but from 386 million years ago!
We worry about Climate Change and we shed tears for having lost the Chestnut Trees (as we should), but let's not lose sight of what we may be losing or may have lost: Nature is doing just fine! It is more important, I think, to regard not what is happening to and in nature, but what is happening to nature as it regards US. The Chestnut Trees, or something equally magnificent, will ultimately take their place; but meanwhile, it is US people who shall miss them, and who do miss them. Our species is barely ancient enough to have left its own fossils, and along our journey, we've added some tools, some language, and we've added controlled fire to the equation.
But just a few miles from where I sit writing this, there exist 386 million-year-old fossils of forested areas that covered the size of many present-day states! I'm not sure whether to call this hopeful, or profound, or to just describe it as it is, and stand in awe. I'd do almost anything to see what those ancient forests were like. I'd also do almost anything to see what they'll look like in another million, or hundred million, years. But most of all: I wish that I could have walked the Appalachian Trail just once and done so one hundred years ago, and had seen those magnificent Chestnut Trees. I hear they were really something, and I heard it from living people.
- j q t -
December 2019
nypost.com/2019/12/19/evidence-of-worlds-oldest-forest-unearthed-in-upstate-new-york/
www.newscientist.com/article/2228299-fossil-trees-reveal-worlds-oldest-forest-grew-on-new-york-mountains/
Western Science has been indeed combined with mixed aboriginal…in our health as in Chi gong chi lel combined with w. Med to fight cancers successfully.
Anything about forest bathing to help change over viewpoints?
Good
Good luck with trees
Contiguous forests… can comprehensive corridors be made with deepened soil ie overlandbridges spanning interstates? Relationships with trees:We notice the benefits of what trees and forests do for us…are there any studies or indigenous knowledge of the forests benefiting?
How to teach foresters how to lumber with better practices. How to cut with modern lumbering techniques?
remember wood?
Teach Isn't a word