Wow, shit I've never considered. I need to get some of our land logged. I bet if I brought this up to a local logger he'd ask what I've been smoking. Almost want to buy my own mill at this point. I'm on 30 acres and most of our trees I could handle with my tractor and my dump trailer.

I love this note Fren

This is what I believe they are calling working forests around here. Not all do it, but more are doing this. The land I am on now did it this way. It was cleared in 1994. But scattered about we have some trees over a 100 years old. Of course not old growth but better than clear cut.

Reminds me of a trial shown in the Soil Food Web School's course. They applied compost extract (with all the functional groups of microbes including fungi) to young Christmas trees. After the first year the control and experiment trees looked the same, but they found the root system on the treated trees was twice as large as the control. The next year the treated trees grew twice as much as the control trees. After that the farmer wouldn't let them take pictures anymore because he didn't want his competition to see the results.

Trees (and all plants) pump energy into the soil, and the soil food web feeds on it to make nutrients available to plants.

Is there any evidence or research that a stand of trees connected by a mycelium network could generate heat? I was noticing some interesting patterns in the snow melt this week.