Everyone's talking about old growth and yet somehow none of those conversations (that I have seen) include pinyon juniper.
Everyone's talking about old growth and yet somehow none of those conversations (that I have seen) include pinyon juniper.
@dendromecon27 OG P/J mgmt issues are not being ignored, but generally a different subset of ppl grandcanyontrust.org/blog/protectin…
@dendromecon27 Agreed. If it is any way associated with the “desert” (or desert/Great Basin adjacent) I don’t think the general public (or certain agencies) really understand or appreciate it. See the BLM western solar plan 👀
@dendromecon27 pj country is magnificent and valuable, in between forest and desert, a great provider of food fuel and medicine
@dendromecon27 "Even at the national extent, significant old-growth forests appear at landscape scales, particularly the Olympic Peninsula and northern Cascades of Washington state and pinyon/juniper forests of the “Four Corners” region of the desert southwest."
@dendromecon27 And they sure aren't about our other native junipers, either. The junipers of central and western Texas are routinely spoken of as trash trees, and yet were valuable rot-resistant timber, still holding up houses in this town and fencing in livestock.
@dendromecon27 Everyone should be talking about junipers.
@dendromecon27 I’d also include Joshua tree forests. Most are old growth.