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Let’s fight for our
environment
Editor, the Journal,
The climate crisis is upon us, has
been for years, but with more fre-
quent, larger storms and wildfires,
increasing numbers of lives are be-
ing lost, property destruction huge
whole towns being destroyed no
more denial. Every level of govern-
ment must choose clean/green energy/
transportation, urgently work to
eliminate carbon energy, increase con-
servation, decrease nonessential con-
sumption, plant native trees/shrubs,
create food forests/organic gardens,
protect our waters, air, lands and ev-
eryone’s health. Listen to indigenous
people and respect tribal agreements.
We must have timely conversations
and follow-upvwith meaningful plans/
actions which all of us can engage in.
The climate crisis is everyone’s prob- ,
GUEST COLUMN
Business, drones helping
LETTERS, continued from page A-7
lem and the solutions must be sus-
tainable and doable by all citizens.
Michael Siptroth
Belfair
Good looking exit
Editor, the Journal,
Regarding the middle Sheltonexit
re—build:
Kudos to whoever was responsible
for visualizing, organizing, fund-
raising, etc. -
It was a lot of work, and a ton
of money, which made me dubious
about it, but wow. It really has come
together.
The new segment of Coffee Creek is
really nice and very salmon friendly.‘
Nice work on the design and log
placement.
It will for sure have salmon in it
this fall,
Dave Robbins
Lilliwaup
to restore scorched forest
Replanting the millions of
acres scorched by wildfires in
our Western woodlands will
be herculean task priced in
the hundreds of billions.
Thankfully, many busi—
nesses, including Bank of
America, Microsoft, and
Salesforce, have joined with
conservation organizations to
in our public forests by 2028.
BofA pledged $300 billion to
fightclimate change by planting young
seedlings. Salesforce plans to “con- '
serve and restore .100 million trees,”
according to FastCompany.com.
By the time. winter rains and snows
arrive, over 5 million acres of forest
lands will have burned in California,
Oregon and.Washington in 2020.
That’s on top of the millions of other
barren acres awaiting seedlings.
Reforestation funding for federal
lands is woefully lacking and that is
unlikely to change —— especially with
the trillions we are spending to arrest
the coronavirus and to restore jobs in
our economy, and lost revenues to lo-
cal, state and federal governments.
Replanting trees as quickly as pos—
sible is one of the most important ways
of reducing 002, controlling erosion
and preventing floods, and providing
clean water for people, fish, farming
and wildlife.
However, right now, we are fighting
a losing battle. Every year worldwide,
‘15.billion trees are destroyed by fire or
pollution and despite $50 billion a year
spent by governments (in replanting,
there remains an annual net loss of 6
billion trees.
Jad Daley, American Forest presi-‘
dent, believes climate change is only -
going to ramp up the need for refores-
tation. “By one estimate, there is room
in the United States to grow 60 billion
new trees, which could capture a half
billion tons of C02 from the atmo-
sphere each year.”
Financing is one thing, but the
actual tree planting in quite another.
That is where drones come in. An ex-
perienced and energetic tree planter
. can plant BOO-1,000 seedlings over 2
acres each day. On the other hand,
two operators equipped with drones
are 150 times faster and 4—10 times
cheaper.
Start-up companies such as Se-
attle’s DroneSeed developed sophis—
/
By DON
BRUNELL
ticated 3D ground mapping
software and precision tree
planting techniques using
swarms of drones. The drones
survey the burned area
designated for planting and
identify suitable sites. They
identified “micro-sites” such
as stumps that would shade
the seedlings and provide ad-
ditional nutrients from decay-
ing wood. '
According to DroneSeed,
biodegradable capsules loaded with
seeds and liquid nutrients are fired
from the drones. “This medium pro-
vides an ideal growing condition for
the seed, and even deters deer and
elk from eating it.” With the mapping
data, the swarm of drones fly precisely
to the suitable location and replant the
target area in a matter of minutes de-
pending on the number of acres.
DroneSeed deployed the technol-
ogy in southern Oregon two years
ago. Hancock Forest Management, an
international forest landowner with
, nearly 11 million acres of timberland,
contracted with DroneSeed to replant
a portion of its land burned by wildfire
in 2018. ,
In the Okanogan-Wenatchee Na-
tional Forest, when US. Forest Ser-
vice scientists surveyed the 2018 Cou-
gar Creek Fire site (41,107 acres), they
found 30 percent of the soil burned in
the Mad River drainage was so severe-
ly damaged it would hardly hold water
and grow trees while another one-third
the 'Soil had moderate damage.
If damaged soil cannot hold water,
it increases the risk of flooding, ero-
sion and muddy, debris—filled streams.
Those conditions are detrimental to
fish, wildlife and people. DroneSeed
planting works on the steep slopes.
Forests yield 40 percent of the clean
water for the world’s 100 largest cities.
Trees stabilize slopes in watersheds,
reduce flooding and cleanse our air of
greenhouse gases.
Let’s hope, drone planting works
out as designed and private funding
increases. It is a “game changer.”
I Don C. Brunell is a business analyst,
writer and columnist. He retired as
president of the Association of Wash—
ington Business, the state’s oldest and
largest business organization, and now
lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted
at theBrunells@msn.com. L