Wisconsin Fly Fishing Forums - 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES

WHITE ADMIRAL

Dragon Fly

Offline

The Willow is the host
plant for the White Admiral

Posts: 1474
n/a
Gender: male

36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Apr 18^th, 2018 at 10:53pm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/ufs--cac041818.php

April 27, 2018 is National Arbor Day so if you want good clean air to breathe plant a bunch of trees.

One of the easiest trees to plant is a willow tree by a creek. Just cut off a willow branch from a willow tree and trim off the little branches. Plant the willow branch about 6 feet back from the creek and deep enough so the end in the ground will stay moist. Wink

Back to top

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. -- Mark Twain
It's fundamental we begin to study mismanaged rivers and streams, because that's what we have.
Mother Nature always amazes me, but why is man such an idiot.-Slimy Sculpin-
LIFE IS A ONE TIME GIFT.
A GOOD DEED IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
We do not have to do great things, only small things with great love.-- Mother Teresa--
God Only Loves Fishermen. (GOLF)
If "pro" is the opposite of "con" what is the opposite of "progress"? Paul Harvey

IP Logged

Gimp WFFP Moderator Offline Gimpers keep out! Posts: 2147 Northern, WI Gender:	Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES Reply #1 - Apr 20^th, 2018 at 6:21pm Willow trees suck. Quite literally.
Back to top	This is a house of ill fame, and I'm a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful, it isn't even any fun. Now if I could be married, and come here once or twice a week... - Louise Pendrake IP Logged

Bob W Stone Fly Offline Posts: 265 Gender:	Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES Reply #2 - Apr 21^st, 2018 at 2:31pm That's what I thought, too - those and cottonwoods. I've heard of streams in Oregon's high desert that were literally sucked dry by those, planted by well-meaning folks thinking that the shade would cool the streams. Right idea, wrong tree.
Back to top	Bob W IP Logged

WHITE ADMIRAL

Dragon Fly

Offline

The Willow is the host
plant for the White Admiral

Posts: 1474
n/a
Gender: male

Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Reply #3 - Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 5:24am

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/orpmcrb560.pd...

Most of the willows have been cloned by government laboratories?? Native?? Interesting reading about willows in the Pacific Northwest. Wink

Back to top

« Last Edit: Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 5:31am by WHITE ADMIRAL »

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. -- Mark Twain
It's fundamental we begin to study mismanaged rivers and streams, because that's what we have.
Mother Nature always amazes me, but why is man such an idiot.-Slimy Sculpin-
LIFE IS A ONE TIME GIFT.
A GOOD DEED IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
We do not have to do great things, only small things with great love.-- Mother Teresa--
God Only Loves Fishermen. (GOLF)
If "pro" is the opposite of "con" what is the opposite of "progress"? Paul Harvey

IP Logged

WHITE ADMIRAL

Dragon Fly

Offline

The Willow is the host
plant for the White Admiral

Posts: 1474
n/a
Gender: male

Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Reply #4 - Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 6:49am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lepidoptera_that_feed_on_willows

The reason the Big Brown Trout were under the willow tree?? Tongue

Back to top

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. -- Mark Twain
It's fundamental we begin to study mismanaged rivers and streams, because that's what we have.
Mother Nature always amazes me, but why is man such an idiot.-Slimy Sculpin-
LIFE IS A ONE TIME GIFT.
A GOOD DEED IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
We do not have to do great things, only small things with great love.-- Mother Teresa--
God Only Loves Fishermen. (GOLF)
If "pro" is the opposite of "con" what is the opposite of "progress"? Paul Harvey

IP Logged

WHITE ADMIRAL

Dragon Fly

Offline

The Willow is the host
plant for the White Admiral

Posts: 1474
n/a
Gender: male

Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Reply #5 - Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 9:02am

GIMP "WILLOW TREES SUCK"

Gimp please read this article on willows and cottonwoods on research done at the University of Washington.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/uow-fp111714.php

THIS IS THE REASON MOTHER NATURE PLANTED COTTONWOODS AND WILLOWS ALONG OUR STREAMS, RIVERS, LAKES AND WETLANDS. Wink

"We spend so much money treating cancer, I'd like us to take steps to prevent it instead." A quote from article.

Gimp, Thanks for reading. Embarrassed

P.S. I should probably plant a cottonwood or willow on my neighbors lawns with all the poison they had spread on their lawns, but then they couldn't take pride in poisoning children and pets.

Back to top

« Last Edit: May 26^th, 2018 at 11:24pm by WHITE ADMIRAL »

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. -- Mark Twain
It's fundamental we begin to study mismanaged rivers and streams, because that's what we have.
Mother Nature always amazes me, but why is man such an idiot.-Slimy Sculpin-
LIFE IS A ONE TIME GIFT.
A GOOD DEED IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
We do not have to do great things, only small things with great love.-- Mother Teresa--
God Only Loves Fishermen. (GOLF)
If "pro" is the opposite of "con" what is the opposite of "progress"? Paul Harvey

IP Logged

WHITE ADMIRAL

Dragon Fly

Offline

The Willow is the host
plant for the White Admiral

Posts: 1474
n/a
Gender: male

Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Reply #6 - Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 9:38am

From my brief education on the willow tree I did not find any study done on the buoyancy on water of different shaped leafs. So I am going to make an assumption the reason willow leaves are narrow and long is so they will sink faster in water. Being that the vast majority of willow trees are found near water their leaves sink to the bottom of waterways and provide instant and rich carbon to the invertebrates that inhabit our waterways. Mother Nature always amazes me.

With all that carbon the invertebrates are plentiful and the brown trout are not "STUNTED" Brown Trout but instead are called "OBESE" Brown Trout under a willow tree. Tongue

P.S. When I was a young child I will always remember a 15 inch Brown Trout that lived in a "Willow Hole" on my neighbor's farm that was the most "Obese" Brown Trout I'll ever see.

I release all my rights to the study of leaf buoyancy to any scientist who would like to do a tax payer funded study. Wink

Back to top

« Last Edit: Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 11:13am by WHITE ADMIRAL »

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. -- Mark Twain
It's fundamental we begin to study mismanaged rivers and streams, because that's what we have.
Mother Nature always amazes me, but why is man such an idiot.-Slimy Sculpin-
LIFE IS A ONE TIME GIFT.
A GOOD DEED IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
We do not have to do great things, only small things with great love.-- Mother Teresa--
God Only Loves Fishermen. (GOLF)
If "pro" is the opposite of "con" what is the opposite of "progress"? Paul Harvey

IP Logged

Bob W

Stone Fly

Offline

Posts: 265
Gender: male

Re: 36 MILLION TREES Cut in ONE YEAR in US CITIES
Reply #7 - Apr 23^rd, 2018 at 6:12pm

WHITE ADMIRAL wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 5:24am:

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/orpmcrb560.pd...

Most of the willows have been cloned by government laboratories?? Native?? Interesting reading about willows in the Pacific Northwest. Wink

Cool, one of those species is named after my natal stream, the Nehalem River! Over on the Oregon coast, there is no shortage of water (my parents' place on the Nehalem near the ocean had an average of 6 FEET of rain per year), and I do know the local beaver population loves the willows.

Back to top

Bob W

IP Logged

	Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register