Category: Climate Forests

Canopy Access Advancements

While almost every adult has a memory of climbing a tree when they were a kid, few will ever climb as high or study branches as closely as canopy biologists. In working with them I’ve learned so much about how much a canopy can offer, as well as how much we still have to learn.… Continue reading Canopy Access Advancements

Remote Sensing Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)

Farmers who grow food in greenhouses are constantly monitoring temperature and humidity to optimize growth rates. The ability to monitor these two data sets is inexpensive enough that it is perhaps the first and easiest observations to apply to forest protection via remote sensing. Currently remote sensing in forestry is primarily based on aerial and… Continue reading Remote Sensing Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)

Older Forests Boost Climate Cleaning Hydroxides (OH)

Runaway greenhouse gas emissions would be far worse if it wasn’t for the wonderful atmospheric molecule OH: “It initiates the reactions that break down airborne pollutants and helps to remove noxious chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide, which are poisonous gases, from the atmosphere,” said Christian George, an atmospheric chemist at the University… Continue reading Older Forests Boost Climate Cleaning Hydroxides (OH)

People Are Starting To Notice

In the early stages of this project it’s expected to not get much attention, yet attention is what we’re starting to get. Yesterday a Climate Change blog created by a top executive in the social media monitoring sector mentioned our work here. ———————————————–> We see inspiring examples flowing through Sunflower every day, from around the… Continue reading People Are Starting To Notice

A New Writing Project

More than a dozen years ago I distributed business cards of an idea that was called: Carbon Conscious Forestry. I was searching for landowners who wanted to increase tree redundancy and the resultant forest resiliency with no kill methods like canopy pruning rather than logging. But back then the notion of evenly spaced trees that… Continue reading A New Writing Project