[Thespiritexpress] Our water and trees

[lee michel alley]

Wow, very important message, thanks! I will call...

> On Jul 19, 2021, at 8:53 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Roz for this post~!!!!  The price of redwood is sky high - no wonder they want to cut the inventory and sell ~~~ but Water is our precious life blood and so are the trees~!!! Consider making the call for SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY~!!!! 
> 
> Only Love, ~Ron 
> 
>> On Jul 19, 2021, at 8:01 PM, Roz via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everyone
>>> 
>> I saw this article and thought I should share it as it affects us all.
>> 
>> 2tS srponsogarhsredous  ·
>> While the city of Fort Bragg Is staring down the barrel of a water crisis
>> and their patrons are being asked to conserve more water, California
>> Department of Forestry is selling millions of gallons of the communities
>> water at a steep discount.
>> There are three timber harvest plans currently active that are in the Noyo
>> River watershed and tributaries of the Noyo, totaling just under 2,000
>> acres.
>> These THPs  will be sucking out an estimated 2.4 million gallons of water
>> from the Noyo primarily during drought months for the watering of roads
>> during timber operations.
>> Further, Redwoods are known for helping to regulate and store water in an
>> ecosystem and to regulate water flows during drought months:
>> “Forest soils act like giant sponges, soaking up rainwater as it falls,
>> and slowly releasing it throughout the dry season.”
>> Logging a forest has been proven to be one of the most destructive
>> activities you can do to the forest floor. Additionally, thinning and
>> removal of the canopy allows in more light and increased winds, two
>> factors that affect overall forest dryness.
>> “Spencer Robert Sawaske, a Stanford researcher, measured fog-drip from
>> individual trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains during the 2013 dry season.
>> He found that older redwoods and Douglas firs on the Pacific Coast side
>> near the ridgetops produced the most fog-drip: up to 38 inches recorded
>> over 2.5 months! He also found that this fogdrip soaked into the ground
>> and replenished stream flow.”
>> With significantly fewer trees and canopy cover in these logging areas,
>> there is and will continue to be less fog drip contributing to the Noyo
>> watershed during the driest part of the year- when we need it most.
>> If you are working diligently to conserve  water, if you are a farmer who
>> is letting fields go fallow or a home gardener starring at bare dirt this
>> year. If you are a city official or water worker scrambling to figure out
>> a way through this summer, it’s time to hold the California Department of
>> Forestry accountable for their rampant water misuse. Please call your
>> elected officials and ask them to put into effect an immediate moratorium,
>> and to tell CDF no logging during drought!
>> Call scripts can be found at
>> http://mendocinotrailstewards.org <http://mendocinotrailstewards.org/>
>> https://sempervirens.org/.../redwood-champions-amid.../
>> 
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