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All Friday Reports are posted at www.vardaman.com/friday.phpVardaman Virtual Forestry CompanyFRIDAY REPORT OF 06/09/06The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest EconomyOUR FORESTER MANAGES HIS FOREST
This color picture of our editor, 1942 forestry grad of Univ. of Michigan, producing what he has to sell illustrates how timberland owners can display what they have to sell. We first used a Kodak EasyShare C300 3.2 MP Digital Camera and then transferred the picture to the text on our computer with a Kingston 256 MB Secure Digital Card (SD/256). We bought ours from amazon.com at delivered prices of about $80 for the camera and $19 for the card. The camera comes with a 69-page User’s Guide; the card comes with a 8-section User’s Guide folder. You will find many uses for them, i.e., sending family photos to other members. When these simple operations are complete, we can send the picture to anyone on the Internet. You can use similar equipment and techniques to display to everyone what YOUR timber or timberland looks like. Take the camera to the woods, and click away at everything that appears to be valuable. After you post them on your site, you can post its address on our for-sale roster for a ONE-TIME charge of $15. We’ll bill you when you post the ad, but remove you if you don’t pay promptly. When you do, it will stay there until you tell us to remove it. Our posting charge has been paid for the following ads: SELL OR MANAGE TIMBERLAND
Red and White Pine in WI, e-mail bobby_b5@excite.com BUY LAND
Tracts in SC, e-mail loblolly@surfbvi.com BUY TIMBER
Tracts in AR, e-mail dyork@digitalpassage.com “REFLOODING RESTORES WILDLIFE TO IRAQI MARSHES”Our title and quotes are from an article posted on http://www.sciam.com: “In the 1990s the Garden of Eden was destroyed. The fertile wetlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were diked and drained, turning most of 15,000 square kilometers of marsh into desert. By the year 2000, less than 10 percent of that swampland – nearly twice as big as Florida’s Everglades – remained. But reflooding of some areas since 2003 has produced what some scientists are calling the ‘miracle of the Mesopotamian marshes’ – a return of plants, aquatic life and even rare birds to their ancestral home… “Helped by increased snowmelt from the mountains of bordering Turkey and Iran, the reflooded marshes avoided high levels of toxins, heavy metals and other releases from the dry soil. As a result, vegetation is expanding to cover an additional 800 square kilometers per year. With vegetation, fish, crustaceans and other water creatures have returned, though not to historic levels. And bird species not seen in decades – such as the highly threatened Iraq babbler – have reappeared, part of a total of 74 returned birds. “This miracle’s long-term viability is threatened, however, by increasing competition for the water itself. ‘In drought years, that is when the real crunch will come,’ Richardson notes. ‘The key is the water has to flow, it continually has to flush the system…’ To read the complete article, click on http://scientificamerican.com/ and enter the title in the “search box” in upper right corner. “THE SKYSCRAPER BOOM”Our title and quotes below are from The Economist 06/01/06 print edition: “Skyscrapers are hard to build and even harder to make money from…In a really efficient skyscraper, nearly 70% of the building’s volume is useable, with the rest taken up by lift-shafts, stairwells and pillars. In a well-designed low-rise building, by contrast, more than 80% of the space can be sold or let… “Other factors, like bed rock near the surface to drive the foundations into, help to keep costs down. The areas around Wall Street and midtown Manhattan have such favorable geology, which partly explains how New York looks. But nature can be mastered: Chicago, home to the first skyscrapers, sits on mud; Dubai’s giant towers are being built on sand… “The international skyscraper style, which involves using acres of glass, does not always make sense. It works well in the parts of north America where it first appeared, but when transported to the Gulf, the giant greenhouses require a huge amount of energy to cool them and engineers have to find ways to keep the light out. Some architects have proposed designs with concrete walls and small apertures that recall the screens in early Islamic architecture, but they have been rejected. Skyscrapers don’t look like that… “Skyscrapers up to 200 metres tall can stand up with a central core of steel and concrete that houses a building’s lifts and the plumbing for support services. Any taller and the building needs outriggers, which provide support like the flying buttresses on a gothic cathedral. This structure can apparently be extended heavenwards indefinitely… “Building green is more expensive. But developers can demand a premium – partly because of the value to companies of being seen to be green and partly because such buildings use at least 35% less energy. The new Bank of America tower in New York is an example. According to its developers, the building will act as a giant air filter, sucking in dirty air from the city, cleaning it up and eventually sending it out cleaner. It will also have a heat-exchange system whereby heat produced by sunshine, people, computers and lights will be used to make ice, which in turn will be used to cool the offices the following day…” To read the complete four-plus page article, click on http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7001496 “MEN HAVE BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS TOO, SPERM STUDY SAYS
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