permaculture

[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

Permaculturists on the West Coast, and probably elsewhere, often recommend 
thinning young Douglas-fir forests which have dense growth due to 
clear-cutting and fire-suppression.  Thinning the forests out reduces fire 
danger, speeds up succession, improves the growth and characteristics of the 
remaining trees, reduces disease, and provides extremely useful building 
materials and fuel.  This is how I got the poles for my home.  However, 
thinning also destroys habitat for certain species.
   
  Long-eared owls, barn owls, and probably dusky grouse and other species, 
need dense forest for roosting and breeding.  This complicates our desire to 
thin out these areas for fire prevention and speeding up succession and 
demonstrates how difficult wise land management can be.  In a wild ecosystem, 
dense new growth would be part of the forest patches in the forest mosaic, 
occurring after fire or other disturbances.  I would recommend leaving some 
significant patches of dense forest where they do not pose a fire risk to 
nearby homes.  It is important to not get puritanical around any practice and 
to always leave some areas totally undisturbed.
   
  Rain

       
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Hey all,
Not sure if this is the right list to post to, but I thought if it isn't
someone on here might know the right place.

I want to buy a deisel car/truck and convert it to run on used cooking oil.
While I've read a little about it (and there was an article in a NY paper
some months ago about a restaurant owner who is doing just that here), I
really would like to connect with some people in my area who are doing the
same thing.

Does anyone know of anyone doing this, esp in the NYC area?

Thanks,
Britt