SB: Re: Meeting Hall for el Lupo and Friends

["Robert W. Tom" <archilogic@yahoo.ca>]

1/14/02 1:34:47 PM, Rick & Katy Blanchard <urbaneagle@cybermesa.com> wrote:
>If this site is as hostile as you are assuming, I doubt that little 
>saplings would survive on their own without supplemental water. There 
>are probably good reasons why there aren't any trees there now. Maybe 
>something simple like NO WATER. If there aren't trees there now they 
>won't automatically be happy in that environment just because a merry 
>band of balers plant them and weave them into a garland.

Actually, I think that the trees might have a better chance of survivng because
of what the Corroboree participants leave behind.

Assuming hundred people show up, there'd be hundreds of pounds and gallons
of fertiliser that needs to go somewhere.  I would think that it'd be just the 
baby formula needed to get the young trees off to a good start.

And  all the straw left behind would serve as an excellent mulch to help 
retain ground moisture, giving the young trees a better chance at surviving, 
and once that mulch composted, it'd create a pretty nice humus layer to
help sustain the trees later in life (the composting process helped along
by  nitrogen rich waterings, of course)

And eventally, instead of remaining as desert, the site would become an oasis.
Baleheads *always* leave a site better than when they found it.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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