My First Post "Terra Preta"

[Taildragerdriver]

Hello All:

 

I am interested in many science issues. I am a forester and range conservationist by training and profession. I work for the US Forest Service as a developer of a decision support application. I am the science leader for this application.

 

I live and work in a small town in NE Oregon. My initial reason for getting into this is Terra Preta (Amazon Dark Earth)on a personal issue that I am interested in. I own a few pastures in the local area. These pastures have been heavily irrigated for over 100 years. They are very leached out with relatively low organic matter and fertility. I am interested in attempting to produce large amounts of charcole from local wood slash. I am looking to solve two problems.

 

The first is improving my pastures long term and second in finding a way to utilize forest biomass to reduce forest fire intensity and in the local Wildland/Urban Interface. In a way that is economicaly viable for the public and private lands.

 

Thanks

[InfiniteNow]

Hello Taildragerdriver,

 

Welcome to Hypography. You will find this a good place to supplement and generate ideas, and I am glad you have decided to join the community. Good job on the introduction, and enjoy.

 

 

Cheers.

[Taildragerdriver]

Thanks InfiniteNow:

 

I can see there are a lot of interesting threads on this site. I glad to have stumbled onto it. I can see there are a bunch of threads I could get into. I hope to be able to give and receive value from these discussions.

 

Taildragerdriver

[Michaelangelica]

Hi Taildragerdriver we will be gentle on your first post:)

 

The reality is we are all trying to understand something that is the one time simple and at others very complex

 

A bit like sex really.:naughty:

[Taildragerdriver]

I hope you noticed I got into the actual thread for Terra Preta and few others. I have been swamped with work and putting together a grant for operational testing of Terra Preta concepts. I hope to get back into the discussions one of these days. If we get the grant and do the 7.5 acre test I will be posting progress in the Terra Preta discussion.

 

Thanks

 

If you want to you can drop or delete this thread.

 

Taildragerdriver

[Tormod]

Taildrager, we have a dedicated forum for Terra Preta now! I've moved your posts there.

 

http://hypography.com/forums/terra-preta.html

[Taildragerdriver]

Tormod:

 

I have been using the Terra Preta thread for discussion.

 

I was just using this thread to document the acutal work being done to do the operational test. It seems not to belong in the standard thread to me. I told people there I was going to use this thread for documenting the process of getting ready for the opreational test in NE Oregon.

 

I would rather keep it seperate. And by the way the terra preta thread you linked here has been closed. I can't find where you put it. I have been involved in the "Opinion: What are the challenges of Terra Preta" but I can't find it there.

 

Can you clean this up.

 

Thanks

 

Taildragerdriver