Master Cartographer
April 2015 - Jul 26, 2024 22:31:24 GMT
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Post by syzygy on Mar 12, 2018 6:53:59 GMT
If this would be a starting of a series, listing victims of urban development, than I should give subtitle for this first posting of mine: One: Two Tree sorry, subject not as funny as funny-boy I think I am, so let me share my first contribution instead: Two Sophora japonica (cca. 1,5 meters trunk diameter) was been cut few days ago by the occasion of new Tram-Train line constructions. Check the 7 years younger trees alive on GMapsSV (imagery date 2011) and the bigger, cut one on my photo taken this morning. ![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1520837500/DSC00970_hdl2tk.jpg) well, I am not an expert in Dendrochronology, but at least 60 growth rings can be count. *** EDIT: way back in time I have made two other individual postings on this sad topic of (mass) killing (of) trees for one or an other reason, now I have decided to put these postings together in this thread. One is a posting about Borneo mega-clearcuts and another one about deforestation in Northern California.
Well, it seems, even if I did not want it, ending I have made my own Deforestation thread here on board...! (:
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Post by spacecowboy2006 on Mar 13, 2018 13:18:24 GMT
I made a similar post once, I titled it Killing Fields.
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Master Cartographer
April 2015 - Jul 26, 2024 22:31:24 GMT
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Post by syzygy on Mar 13, 2018 13:32:59 GMT
glad to see you around tree expert! -have some questions:
what you think how old were these? a local man also been hanged around told me, these were 'at least 150 years old'
and another one: why does it stink so much? I have collected a bigger piece on site and I just could not stand its smell even in the outhouse.
I have read it has a 'special smell', but that stinks! -can it be caused by some fly larvae from just below the crust, been smashed all over with the chainsaw? -or simply the smell of this kind of raw-wood?
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Post by spacecowboy2006 on Mar 14, 2018 3:25:10 GMT
yes I'd say just about 150 years.
I never heard of Sophora stinking. But if it does it's probably the bark or wood and not an insect. Oaks produce a toxin which prevents other plants from growing at the base; ginkgo fruits smell like old worn socks.
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Post by spacecowboy2006 on Mar 14, 2018 3:27:39 GMT
Sophora Japonica (Huai Hua Mi) | Chinese Herbs Healing www.chineseherbshealing.com/sophora-japonica/Aug 30, 2013 - Pagoda Tree Bud Sophora japonica, also known as Huai Hua Mi, is edible and often used as a cool Chinese herb to stop bleeding. But the benefits of pagoda tree go far beyond its medicinal uses – its flowers can be used as yellow dye, seeds as ... Under bark is bright yellow and with undesirable odor.
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on Mar 14, 2018 7:05:19 GMT
hey! thanks for instant response! thats all clear now. and here you are a last one surprise, our old cut buddy held for us: I have never seen such before, that wild bee nests so deep inside the tree: (photographed today morning as workers piled the 'material') ![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1521010778/DSC00976_yazlua.jpg) ![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1521010778/DSC00974_scdz8f.jpg) so not only the giants are dead, but few thousands of little chaps also have to look for another site to live in... (however this seems quite abandoned recently) *** EDIT: I took a piece of the comb(-system) and in hope of some further ID I have measured cell diameter. (D = 5 millimeters). btw, it not stinks at all: I keep it locked in my office cabinet and every time I open its door honey and heavy scent of wildflower odor bursts out! (:
only now I feel so annoyed that I have been such late from work in the morning that I had no time to search for corpse of the species! -the piece I have taken was empty. ):
now, as been there again have noticed: meanwhile someone has made the whole cavern-system totally empty! there were even more bigger trunk pieces full of combs so I estimate the weight of the bee-wax this tree could contain to a min. of 50 kilograms. ...and if we exchange it to number of candles or some other "new-age healthcare products" one can made out of it, now that starts to sound a good deal! 0:
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Post by syzygy on Mar 28, 2018 6:39:47 GMT
tarnsport trucks and loading equipment appeared today morning on the "killing fields". I think the time has come, we have to say a last goodbye to the remains of our big friends with this last one shot: ![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/e_auto_brightness/v1522218730/DSC01002_xiumvw.jpg)
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January 2018 - Nov 6, 2018 13:24:52 GMT
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Post by pitter on Apr 5, 2018 5:47:13 GMT
In the end it's a real shame with each felled tree. Take Care, Pitter
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on May 2, 2018 6:33:51 GMT
So many "deforestation" threads we have already seen around GEC forums, that I won't do another, only post it here: ... EDIT: now it is a deforestation topic of mine...(: This is not about two trees, but some two billion from eastern Paraguay: 2006 - 2016![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1525242686/deforest.paraguay.2006_abi8o9.jpg) - ![](http://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1525242686/deforest.paraguay.2016_ozj13z.jpg) read some on this by earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on Feb 12, 2019 12:51:58 GMT
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on Nov 11, 2019 13:25:27 GMT
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Master Gamer
April 2018 - Jul 26, 2024 20:06:31 GMT
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Post by willi1 on Nov 11, 2019 13:54:42 GMT
Somehow, the drastically increased population of the countries must be fed. Comparison 1950/2018 Congo: around 0.9 million / around 5.3 million Bolivia: around 3 million / around 11.5 million Brazil: around 54 million / around 210 million And there are more and more ...
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Master Cartographer
April 2015 - Jul 26, 2024 22:31:24 GMT
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Post by syzygy on Nov 11, 2019 14:30:10 GMT
yep, ... the tragedy is that we call "human" ourselves, but it seems, we follow just the same behavior-pattern as lemmings... *** thanks for the related numbers willi1!
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on May 20, 2020 6:39:52 GMT
No placemark needed - sad, this also easily can be spotted in Argentina. Read nasa-eo article and check my GE screenies, illustrating cover changes between 1987 and 2016, alas 30 years of "dendrocide": [slide captionposition="1" wrapperstyle="padding:10px 0;border-top:2px solid #eee;border-bottom:2px solid #eee;"]https://res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1589956711/deforest.gran.chaco.1987_nepebt.jpg 1987 res.cloudinary.com/syzygy/image/upload/v1589956711/deforest.gran.chaco.2016_uxttpq.jpg2016[/slide] *** Original post and title has been edited.
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Master Cartographer
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Post by syzygy on Apr 19, 2021 11:37:46 GMT
1984-2016: ( in the Deforestation Bolivia posting ) ... GoogleEarth(web) says 1984-2020*! ... much more shocking this way, animated... we shall die, man!... ) : ... /*GE(web) Timelapse link for PC (or laptop) - does not work on smartphone (tablet) GE(web) Apps!/
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