Restoration Forestry and Global Cooling

The simplest definition is “a forest that has never been logged.” But, old-growth/ancient forests are ore complex than that. At least six components make-up an old-growth forest:

1.Trees 200 or more years old.

2.Trees of all ages.

3.Large standing dead trees (snags).

4.Large fallen trees in streams and on the forest floor.

5.Many canopy layers (uppermost branchy layer of the forest).

6.Fertile, textured soil.

Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning acts of initiative (and creation),
there is one elementary truth
the ignorance of which
kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
That the moment one definitively commits oneself,
then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one’s favor
all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance
which no person could have dreamt would come their way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin it now. - Goethe