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

Protection or Profession?

In our upside down world the “normal” profession of forestry looks nearly the opposite of a life-long drive to work for greater forest protection. In today’s world a professional forester succeeds by undermining limits of what can be done, while the forest protector succeeds by strengthening these limits. A forest protector knows once elder trees… Continue reading Protection or Profession?

Hello world!

What does a forester do? What is their authority in a global industrial complex of near always accelerating deforestation rates of primary forest? Or rather what is / does a forester do next? What are the next steps that goes beyond this failure of denying a fecundity of biodiversity? The inspiration for this website and… Continue reading Hello world!