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FRIDAY REPORT OF 01/27/06
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
“HOW TO BEAT THE HIGH COST OF GASOLINE. FOREVER!”
by Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz for FORTUNE
Our title and quotes are from a posting on 01/24/06:
“You probably don’t know it, but the answer to America’s gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.
“These lucky drivers need never pay for gasoline again – if only they could find this elusive fuel, called ethanol. Chemically, ethanol is identical to the grain alcohol you may have spiked the punch with in college…
“Instead of coming exclusively from corn or sugar cane as it has up to now, thanks to biotech breakthroughs, the fuel can be made out of everything from prairie switchgrass and wood chips to corn husks and other agricultural waste. This biomass-derived fuel is known as cellulosic ethanol. Whatever the source, burning ethanol instead of gasoline reduces carbon emissions by more than 80% while eliminating entirely the release of acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide. Even the cautious Department of Energy predicts that ethanol could put a 30% dent in America’s gasoline consumption by 2030…
“Filling up on ethanol isn’t new. Henry Ford’s Model Ts ran on it…”
To read this article, which might describe a future timber market, click on http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367959/index.htm
“DIG ADDS TO CHEROKEE ‘TRAIL OF TEARS’ HISTORY”
by Willie Drye for National Geographic News
Our title and quotes are from this posting on 01/23/06:
“Archaeologists working in the rugged mountains of southwestern North Carolina are adding new details to the story of a tragedy that took place more than 160 years ago…
“About 16,000 Cherokee and hundreds of other Native Americans were forced out of North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama in the late 1830s. The event came to be known among the Cherokee as the Trail of Tears…
“Brett Riggs, an archaeologist with the University of North Carolina’s Research Laboratories of Archaeology, is leading the excavations…
“‘They were detained by the U.S. military, and then moved away from their homes to open the area for settlement by a whole different population. That fits the bill for describing ethnic cleansing as well as anything I can think of.’
“Riggs and his crew of UNC archaeologists are working about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Asheville. They’re uncovering remnants of the Cherokees’ lives before they were rounded up and moved west…
“The decision to move eastern Indians is rooted in the U.S. purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803…
“The pressure to move the Indians increased in 1829 when gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia. A small group of Cherokee signed a treaty in 1835 agreeing to leave their lands. Although the group didn’t represent the entire Cherokee Nation, the U.S. government used the treaty as justification for rounding up the Indians and forcing them to move to what is now Oklahoma…”
To read the entire four-page article, click on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0123_060123_cherokee_dig.html
“SPOTTED OWLS IN COURT
by Rex Dalton”
Our title and quotes are from posting on news@nature.com on 01/20/06:
“Environmentalists are going to court against the Canadian government in an attempt to protect critically endangered spotted owls.
“A consortium of four environmental groups will enter evidence on 23 January, in a Vancouver-based federal court, that the British Columbia government has been negligent in safeguarding the owls. They hope to force the federal government to implement a draft plan to save the less than two dozen northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) known to exist.
“…Provincial scientists studying the owls recommended in 2003 that logging of old-growth forests be halted where the owls live. But logging continues. Environmentalists argue that timber companies have pressured the province not to take steps to protect old-growth forests…”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/full/060116-14.html
If the market value of those old-growth trees is like that of similar ones elsewhere, it is thousands of dollars/acre, and the individual trees do not respond well to partial cutting. We suspect that the “provincial scientists studying the owls” do not own the trees.
“SEAFLOOR STUDY TRACES CULPRITS BEHIND INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI”
by Ben Harder and Anna Petherick
Our title and quotes are from the 12/23/05 National Geographic News
“By inspecting the seafloor off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, scientists have developed a detailed geological picture of how the earthquake that caused the deadly December 26, 2004, tsunami unfolded.
“Based on their findings, the researchers predict that another huge quake and tsunami could be coming soon. The quake occurred when an 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) segment of an undersea fault line suddenly ruptured…
“Vertical motion, or uplift, of 20 feet (6 meters) or more along the fault caused the water column above to rise and ripple outward. The ripples formed the tsunami that devastated coastal communities on Sumatra, as well as in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand…
“Sieh [the Caltech geologist] found that after the December quake the seafloor had risen permanently by about five feet (one and a half meters) at a field site near the southern end of the rupture. Furthermore, by extracting information from the corals about past uplift events, Sieh found evidence that another powerful quake could soon hit the southern half of Sumatra…”
To read the complete article, click on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1223_051223_tsunami.html
“STARDUST RETURNS BEARING PARTICLES FROM ON HIGH”
by David Biello
Our title and quotes are from a 01/20/06 posting on SCIENCE NEWS of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN:
“On Sunday a capsule from the Stardust spacecraft became the fastest man-made object ever to return to Earth, clocking in at nearly 29,000 miles per hour before touching down in the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah. On Tuesday NASA scientists became the first humans ever to become comet dust when they opened the capsule and peered at its interstellar contents…
“‘Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,’ says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team. ‘We should have more than one million particles larger than one micron in diameter.
“The solar-powered Stardust collected interstellar particles on two trips around the sun while preparing for its rendezvous with Comet Wild 2…in 2004. The 600-pound spacecraft penetrated Wild 2’s coma – the cloud of gas and debris surrounding a comet’s nucleus – and snapped pictures of its inner terrain. It also harvested tiny bits of the comet itself in a tennis racket-shaped collector carrying an ice cube tray-like device filled with the lightest-weight, lowest-mass solid known: aerogel…
“The aerogel collector also gathered microscopic interstellar dust that may have traveled from other galaxies, which could offer researchers a glimpse of the nuclear reactions in distant stars. These deep-space motes are so small, however, that even advanced microscopes have trouble finding them in the aerogel. The scientists have therefore enlisted the help of computer users worldwide via a project called Stardust@Home that employs their spare computing power to help pinpoint the particles. ‘We have more than 65,000 people signed up for this,’ Zolenski notes. ‘But we can always use more.’”
To read the entire article, click on http://www.sciam.com and then on its title by the monkey’s paw.
USED BOOK SALES
We offer for sale all used books listed at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php.
OUR SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBER
For details, click on http://www.vardaman.com and then on the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” You can offer to buy or sell timber or land. You must post the general area of your interest; be sure to include the state. You must also post your E-MAIL ADDRESS and the URL of your Internet site. Our tracking report will not report the number of visitors UNLESS you enter your URL. If you are selling, you should post the name of the tract. When you have entered all details, click on “Submit,” and what you just entered will appear on our Internet site at the bottom of the page under the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” Be sure to check for and correct errors.
For each tract posted and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.50 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.50 for each visit his ad received during the week just ended. You can pay us by e-mailing the money to “Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company” at PayPal or mailing it to P.O. Box 12293, Jackson, MS 39236. We will delete your ad when your payments cease.
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