Decayed pondside willow

[Lee Winger]

Our estuary's are chocked with silt due to deforestation that took place hundreds of years ago, on a serious note we are loosing far too many old decayed trees like the willow, the habitat for insects, mammals, bats, birds they create is immense, they are like a reef.......

Edited March 26, 2011 by Lee Winger

[skyhuck]

Soil is being produced all the time, by decomposition.

 

Some seem to be equating the removal of Mrs Miggings tree, because its past its best and it worries her, with the wholesale destruction of forests, they a very different, IMO.

[Lee Winger]

Soil is being produced all the time, by decomposition.

 

You won't find much natural composting in the British countryside, the land is far too intensively farmed for that, and in East Anglia, woodlands, heaths and forests once common are now scarce......

[David Humphries]

Mark, that's quite possibly the most Uber-Homoerotic pose that has ever graced (sic) the boards here at Arbtalk.

 

I suggest you find a more appropriate (& deserving) forum, to imortalise it on.

 

 

 

bravo on the style though

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Thanks Dave, that's exactly the look I was going for!

 

Don't worry, the pic is doing the rounds on HotLeatherBoyz.com, but the lads on there keep mistaking me for SkyHuck!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Soil is being produced all the time, by decomposition.

 

Some seem to be equating the removal of Mrs Miggings tree, because its past its best and it worries her, with the wholesale destruction of forests, they a very different, IMO.

 

Soil is made up mostly of mineral origin, your organic content is usualy around 5%, with higher levels at the organic A horizon(top layer) Weathering and the actions of lichens (carboxlic acid) is what generates rock(mineral breakdown) trees and plants and animals rotting down are only a portion of the soil equation.

 

A willow on a river bank is doing a lot of good, the erosion that will occur in its removal will be a much bigger issue than a clogged drain.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Our estuary's are chocked with silt due to deforestation that took place hundreds of years ago, on a serious note we are loosing far too many old decayed trees like the willow, the habitat for insects, mammals, bats, birds they create is immense, they are like a reef.......

 

The silt is still being laid, it didnt stop!

[RobArb]

Our Good Earth - National Geographic Magazine

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

love NG!