Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company
FRIDAY REPORT OF 11/04/05
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
TIMBER MART-SOUTH
Southeastern Average Stumpage Prices – US$/ton
one quarter ago one year ago
3Q05 2Q05 chg 3Q04 chg
Pine Sawtimber 39.57 40.53 -2.37% 78.83 4.60%
Pine Chip-n-Saw 22.95 23.47 -2.22% 22.89 0.26%
Pine Pulpwood 7.06 7.41 -4.72% 6.35 11.18%
Hardwood
Sawtimber 21.85 21.56 1.35% 20.15 8.44%
Hardwood
Pulpwood 7.22 7.03 2.70% 5.47 31.99%
“DEER DECREASING FOREST BIRD POPULATION”
by Tracy Staedter
Our title and quotes below are from SCIENCE NEWS of 10/31/05:
“Large populations of deer are edging out forest birds in North America, report scientists in this month’s issue of the journal Biological Conservation. The study is the first to evaluate the impact deer grazing can have on nest quality and food resources in areas unaffected by human activities such as forestry or hunting…
“The decline of forest birds has been blamed mostly on such factors as disease, loss of habitat and an increase in the number of animals that prey on bird nests. But according to biologist Sylvain Allombert of the Center for Functional Evolution and Biology in Montpelier, France, and colleagues, few studies have considered the overabundance of deer, whose populations are reaching historic peaks…
“The team found that the more a bird species relied on the forest understory for nesting and food, the more it was adversely affected by a sizable deer population. For example, on the islands browsed by deer for more than 50 years, bird abundance was 55 percent to 70 percent lower than on the deer-free islands. For those species that had the highest dependence on forest-floor plants, the numbers were dramatic. The fox sparrow and the rufous hummingbird, for instance, were common on deer-free islands but missing on the islands with a long browsing history…
To read the entire article, click on http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00047FF0-8A73-1365-897683414B7F4945.
“KATRINA, RITA DEVASTATE SOUTHERN TIMBERLANDS
Billions of Board Feet Damaged Over 5 Million Acres”
By Steve Wilent
Our title and quotes below are from The Forestry Source of 11/05:
“The damage from last year’s hurricanes was characterized as devastating to timberlands along the southern US coast, and rightly so. In August and September 2004, hurricanes damaged more than $1 billion worth of timber on more than 12 million acres in Florida and Alabama.
“Then came Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September of this year, which left unparalleled destruction in their wakes. The number of people hurt or killed and the extent of the damage to their homes, businesses, and communities stunned the nation…”
To read a USFS description and see a map of Katrina alone, click on: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/katrina/katrina_brief_2005-09-22.pdf.
“INVASIVE PYTHONS SQUEEZING FLORIDA EVERGLADES”
by Maryann Mott
Our title and quotes below are from 10/28/05 National Geographic News:
“For decades pet Burmese pythons have been dumped illegally in Florida’s Everglades National Park…
“Last year 6,140 Burmese pythons were imported into the U.S. from their native homes in Southeast Asia, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Thousands more were captive bred in the country.
“Now hundreds of the constrictors – which reach upwards of 19 feet (6 meters) and 200 pounds (91 kilograms) – are breeding and expanding their range in Florida wetlands…
“The massive snakes potentially pose a threat to human safety…
“The Fish and Wildlife Commission is now considering tightening regulations to stem the flow of illegally abandoned and escaped constrictors. Possibilities include requiring owners to obtain a U.S. $140-per-year permit and implanting pythons with identification microchips…”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1028_051028_pythons.html
OUR BLOG AND YOURS
Do you keep a blog? We hope so, for you read the things we write about and are therefore interested in the subjects that interest us. We are flattered, and we’d also very much like to read what you write about.
We don’t register on big globes of blogs for it may take us all day to examine all of them, and we might not understand much of it. Therefore, we hope you will send us the address of what you’ve written even remotely connected with the forest economy of the eastern United States. We’d also like to be permission to quote you, and we promise not to argue with you, in print or otherwise.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY GROWING TREES
Timberland in eastern United States can be a superb investment, but you must understand its many facets and complications. This requires diligent study, especially if you inherited a tract or a fractional interest in one. Frequent reference to Jim Vardaman’s book. HOW TO MAKE MONEY GROWING TREES, is a big help. To order it from the publisher, click on http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471609196.html It may also be available from Amazon.
“DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS”
Our title and quotes below are from are from The Economist of 10/27/05:
“Anyone who has ever owned a hamster will know that the animal spends an inordinate amount of time sleeping. Depending on your point of view, that might be a good or bad thing. Hamsters are small and, broadly speaking, the smaller the animal, the more sleep it needs. While elephants need as little as three or four hours of sleep per day, tiny opossums will snooze for 18 to 24 hours. Flipper, however, doesn’t seem to sleep at all – at least not in any way that humans know it. In the bottlenose dolphin, each side of the brain appears to take it in turns to do something that is equivalent to sleep but with only one eye closed.
“Such animal curiosities give scientists clues to the function of sleep and thus what it is, and what it is for, in humans. It is clear that sleep is more than the absence of wakefulness – it is the reorganization of the brain’s neuronal activity. During sleep, the brain is very active and two different states, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep occur. These are as different from each other as they are from wakefulness, which means that humans have three very different states of being, rather than two. In each, most parts of the brain are active but in different ways.
“When humans are deprived of sleep – something they spend about a third of their lives doing – they accumulate a sleep ‘debt.’ In other words, they must ultimately make up for some of the missed sleep if they are to continue to function. Clearly, something important is happening. But when only REM sleep is suppressed, either through brain lesions or some anti-depressant drugs, there are no obvious cognitive or physiological symptoms. So these two sleep states are likely to have different purposes.
“There are many theories about the function of NREM sleep, with its reduction in brain metabolic activity. One is that it may conserve energy at some time of day in the same way hibernation does during particular seasons. Another role for NREM sleep is also suggested by recent work showing that sleep may have a role in allowing, or facilitating, the growth of new neurons in adults…”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=5080881
BOOK SALES
We offer for sale all books listed at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php.
NEW SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBER
For the 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 after 05/12/05 and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.25 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.25 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. The new fee schedule does not apply to tracts marked with asterisks::
SELL LAND OR TIMBER
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BUY LAND
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BUY TIMBER
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