[Thespiritexpress] Our water and trees

[roz at mcn.org]

> Thank you Lee! This is so important and timely. Hoping alot of people
will write/call now. It is about our environment and survival~

With love, Roz


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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