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Re: TH: Re: Starting up a Community Forestry Usenet Newsgroup
Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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Happy US Nat'l Arbor Day, Grow19 -
And a happy 2nd anniversary to all the gang at Tree-House -
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 Grow19@aol.com wrote:
> Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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> is the usenet about urban forestry which includes more than trees (all trees
> and plantings short of food gardens, i think according to the us forest
> service definition) or is this usenet group about trees?
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The ironic dilemma that we are in is this. We started out to propose
a Usenet newsgroup for Community Forestry (or some variation thereon),
which is understandable enough. What we are finding out now is that
there are no tree- or forest-dedicated groups at all within the Usenet
Big 8 hierachies (this would exclude bionet.agroforestry for example).
In an attempt for us to propose any arboriculture discussion over Usenet
at all, that they are likely to allow to pass, I would like to see
sci.environment.trees -- however colleague Shaub Dunkley's compelling
rationale favoring sci.environment.forests is difficult for me to
dismiss. The one irrefutable advantage to Shaub's argument is that
it opens the pathways for finer tree discussions in the future. None
of us can be a serious 'forester' who cannot prepare for 10, 20 years
down the old superhighway. Imagine:
sci.environment.forests.arboriculture
sci.environment.forests.urban
sci.environment.forests.restoration
sci.environment.forests.rain
sci.environment.forests.trees
This is a compromise for me. But it's important that we take this
auspicious opportunity and do what is most right for all the trees.
Happy Arbor Day,
Richard@Flora.Com
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