Just to clarify. Nurse logs are not garbage.

[Mrs. Krabappel]

Whether or not one considers them a waste

http://www.kindofcurious.com/2010/09/life-of-nurse-log.html

(broken link removed)

Not only are they arguably more alive with other biota than when they were living, they are also crucial for growing fungal free baby trees.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I missed the other thread until it was "ash canned", but I agree with you. Calling downed trees a "waste" only looks at what people want, not how forests work.

 

[billb3]

contextual lexical semantics

 

[begreen]

Alder trees are short lived and fast to decay. They provide lots of nutrients to the successive growth. They are also nitrogen fixers. The miracle of the growth cycle is really quite marvelous and we understand only perhaps a small fraction of what is totally happening, particularly on a fungal level.

 

[firebroad]

Wow, neat link, thanks.
Should be called Compost Trees.

 

[Ehouse]

Alder trees are short lived and fast to decay. They provide lots of nutrients to the successive growth. They are also nitrogen fixers. The miracle of the growth cycle is really quite marvelous and we understand only perhaps a small fraction of what is totally happening, particularly on a fungal level.

There's a fungus amongus!

 

[begreen]

Lots of 'em! The largest organism on the earth is a fungus and it may well be the oldest too.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus

 

[Ehouse]

Lots of 'em! The largest organism on the earth is a fungus and it may well be the oldest too.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus

And it's edible (with caution). Bet you can't eat just one!

 

[BrotherBart]

I give my nurse logs to Nurse Ratchen. The 30-NC.

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

Always with the sass BB. To the corner with you

 

[firebroad]

And it's edible (with caution). Bet you can't eat just one!

Mmmm.....Shrooms.

 

[Ehouse]

Mmmm.....Shrooms.

The eastern version (Armillaria mella or "Openky"/Perpinky") is quite tasty.

 

[Ehouse]

I wouldn't mind being a nurse log when I go.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I wouldn't mind being a nurse log when go.

I looked for a youtube version of the old folk song "compost me", but couldnt find it. It was seen as subversive or something during McCarthyism

 

[Adios Pantalones]

contextual lexical semantics

This is neither simple lexical semantics, nor contextual semantics. It is in fact competing ideas at the foundation. Leave it there to rot as part of the ecosystem, or retrieve it and use it.

 

[firefighterjake]

I wouldn't mind being a nurse log when I go.

Not quite a nurse log . . . but you should decompose nicely here without leaching a lot of chemicals into the ground and surely would help feed some trees, plants, etc.

http://mainegreencemetery.com/category/about-cbbg/

 

[firebroad]

Not quite a nurse log . . . but you should decompose nicely here without leaching a lot of chemicals into the ground and surely would help feed some trees, plants, etc.

http://mainegreencemetery.com/category/about-cbbg/

Wish one of those was close to me.

 

[Ehouse]

Not quite a nurse log . . . but you should decompose nicely here without leaching a lot of chemicals into the ground and surely would help feed some trees, plants, etc.

http://mainegreencemetery.com/category/about-cbbg/

Well......there's chemicals and then there's chemicals Jake, and I'd object to being pandered to, but the thing is....not in Maine Jake, oh no, not in Maine!

 

[Ehouse]

Wish one of those was close to me.

This past Summer we buried a dear friend, a tall tree of a Czech, an artist who waved his arms when he talked, with emotion for a wind. His family dug the Shallow on a low hill in the sun, behind the house, laid him down, and covered over. Rest Mila.

You can keep your dignity if you choose.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

This past Summer we buried a dear friend, a tall tree of a Czech, an artist who waved his arms when he talked, with emotion for a wind. His family dug the Shallow on a low hill in the sun, behind the house, laid him down, and covered over. Rest Mila.

You can keep your dignity if you choose.

There are so many annoying laws about this

 

[Ehouse]

There's always the pelagic option; Taking one more slow roll and one more deep lungful of God's air and plunging for the Deep as the sea goes Red and the Whites and Blues close in, to give oneself as seed bed to the myriad bottomers.

Sorry, I forgot no political posts til the Can (of worms) opens up, I've nearly completed a bottle of cheap (relatively) Tawny Port.

 

[Ehouse]

There are so many annoying laws about this

Yes, but they were able to skirt (or ignore) them.

 

[Cynnergy]

I know they say that drowning is a peaceful death, but the ocean is sooooo cold around here. A bit morbid, sorry. I am feeling a bit melancholy tonight after working on a food security report - one of my survey responses was just so tragic. Hard to imagine struggles like that in a little place like this.

 

[Ehouse]

Well......there's chemicals and then there's chemicals Jake, and I'd object to being pandered to, but the thing is....not in Maine Jake, oh no, not in Maine!

Actually, I like Maine a lot, but please, anywheres exceptin" the "Haynesville Woods"!

 

[Ehouse]

There are so many annoying laws about this

You're not supposed to pee off your back porch either.