Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Coffee Plants, Coffee Cherries, Coffee Berries, Coffee Beans, Coffee Makers, and Coffee Cups The whole world knows something about coffee. Many millions of people drink it every day. A few million are involved in growing it, hundreds...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Dr. Ben Stout Was My Kind of Guy It is true that having a receptive mood is one of the conditions that is required for the Footloose Forester to even draft a chronicle. If something inside...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Java “If you ever go across the sea to Ireland,” the plaintive words of an old but enchanting melody begin. The haunting Irish melody forms your thoughts into dreams...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Environmental Disasters For much of the last 30 years, the issue of the environment has become a political football, with political parties lining up on opposite sides of that football. That...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rain Shadows and Rainforests On the one hand, you have those who believe in global warming; and on the other side of the divide are those who are currently labeled as climate...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Single Tree Selection Becomes High-Grading With all the talk about deforestation and the evils of cutting down trees, people everywhere should remember that humans have been cutting down trees ever since they invented the tools to...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Professional Forest Management Integrating soil/site aspects in planting strategy This essay/story evolves from a critique about a real-time, first-rate example of forest management and real-time planning of forest plantations in Ireland. Thanks to the Irish Forestry...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Planting by the Numbers Most adults have planted a tree or two and gained satisfaction from having done so. Perhaps they also mused about how tall it would become and if the fruit would ripen for them...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rainforests or Not? Discussing rainforests is not the same as explaining rainforests and reporting from a rainforest is not the same as reporting about rainforests. Likewise, discussing rainforests does not and should not imply that the reporter or...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rosewood By Any Other Name Most everyone agrees that truth in advertising is a policy that should be followed simply because everyone wants to know what they are getting and to get what they are paying for. ...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Street Trees and Village Shade There is little doubt that trees beautify the landscape in any large city or small town. Street trees are aesthetic treasures that may be ignored at times but gain attention when they are...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Aesthetic Trees Legacy trees evolve from singular or group specimens that have had, or will become, historical, cultural, or botanical icons. The mystique and mystery of remote forests of towering giants, the wildness of tropical jungles,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Smoke Along The Rubicon Trail From among the few categories that form the framework of the storyteller’s letterhead of the Footloose Forester: Essays, Stories, Adventure, Dreams , this chronicle and a delicious story is based...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Deforestation, Reforestation, and Afforestation The continuous evolution of digital technology across written, audio, and pictorial media has resulted in each medium of expression having an ever-improving capability to create and to share our personal expressions of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Eureka! Koa is a Superstar Getting to travel into rural areas in The Third World gives the traveler a perspective you won’t find in the glossy photos of glamorous magazines. Whereas most people can relate to a stroll...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Why Footloose Forester Won’t Write A Novel As snippets of clichés and other prompts for new chronicles popped into his head, the Footloose Forester decided that at least two of them were determining factors in his decision to...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Legacy Of The Land If you are not making many mistakes, you are not being very creative. Now, that is a stinging indictment…to the reader, whomever that is, and from the writer…whomever that was. ...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek C was Ceylon You might say that he was never in Sri Lanka, but he was in Ceylon. He was never in Kampuchea but was once in the Khmer temples of Cambodia; he never...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek H is Honduras After getting a small grant to research a few selected teak plantations in Central America, compliments of the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Footloose Forester chose Costa Rica, Panama and Honduras. ...
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