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My Turn: Protect the historic Buttonball sycamore tree The American sycamore tree commonly known as the Buttonball Tree in Sunderland on North Main Street. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Published: 5/5/2021 6:32:37 AM I am a retired arborist with 40 years of experience, and I agree with fellow arborists, Brian Kane and Ed Kelly, regarding what is required to protect the historic Sunderland “Buttonball” sycamore tree. It is essential that the critical root zone be clearly designated and properly protected, and all digging and large equipment must be kept away from this area. The existing fence fails to include the entire root zone and should be enlarged. ....
by Contributor on Saturday January 23 2021 Photo from 100 Acre Wood near Rossland, by Sara Golling Researchers say proforestation policies are the fastest and most effective way to draw excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Mass. Bob Leverett walked away from the trunk, looking up through the canopy, trying to get eyes on the crown. He crushed the thick pine needle duff with each step, while a light drizzle tapped on the leaves above him, and birds called from a distance. Then he saw it, the top of the tree, and measured its height with a small instrument he raised to his eye. He would combine this measurement with others to calculate the mass of the tree, a monolithic white pine in western Massachusetts. Once he found the mass, he could approximate how much carbon it contained, carbon the tree had been pulling out of the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide, for well over 100 years. ....
As a response to the climate crisis, Bill Moomaw and Bob Leverett say we should protect big tress and those trees likely to become big trees. Most people are willing to let the tallest, oldest trees alone; saving trees that might grow large would alter forestry practices. Moomaw graduated from Williams College, received a doctorate in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a Congressional Science Fellow played a crucial part in reducing the ozone hole, taught at Williams, co-authored five reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (sharing a Nobel Prize) and became founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University, until retiring in 2014 â and now he is working with Leverett to determine just how important big trees are in sequestering carbon. ....