Saturday 01/25/2003 Clearwater, FL Day 2731

What Happened Today? Finished Writ of Execution by Perri O’Shaughnessy (621 pages). Wrote 3 letters to Chris. Went to the library. Golf ball walk with Ian (4).

GAIA- Planetary Management:

881. The major Northern development in recent years has been in genetic engineering.

882. Trees grown from tissue culture can quickly reforest large areas of denuded land, and can be “engineered” with useful commercial qualities.

883. However, industrial plantations, almost always consisting of generically-uniform stands, are generally more vulnerable to pests and pathogens.
884. Widespread disease and pest outbreaks are common throughout conifer plantations in the US, China, and central Europe.

885. In the South, because of the critical environmental role played by tropical forests, it is better to establish “tree farms” on lands already deforested than to harvest the natural forest.