esta dia

currently
continually
constantly
inconstant
in search of a bed and
peace at any cost
lost my place
in the pecking order.
all is well, love and lessening anxiety, Junie

let her know the why and what

I'm talking to the adopted orphan
about Parenting.
I am connected to my Father's memory
of being in the custody of his Father; his sister
with his Mother; being farmed out to work
for his dinner; and laying at night dreaming of
what His family would be. Having meals
daily, a dog, movies...
Having meals. When they hadn't had
meat for a year -- someone found an old
dead opposum which they cooked for dinner,
and it tasted so bad they had to throw it in the outhouse.

I went to meet the old woman who had taken him in, near
Pendleton I met with 'Pearl'. She recalled in the sunlight:
"George Noble, I remember him. He'd work all day for a
piece of gum."

I saw another element of my Father that day... the hard working
streek of physicality was it's own reward.

I hope to volunteer for the following
efforts. (Earth in the Balance by Al Gore)
call me if you are interested in this training,
and, participating. Twice hands make for light work.

Indiana Community Tree Stewards in Marion County and the Indiana Urban Forest Council
A call for help!
Reference City Project for the Lower Midwest

Indianapolis along with the IDNR, Urban Forestry, and the USDA Forest Service is working on a Reference City Project. This project will determine the climate zones of specific species of trees so that when assessing economic and ecologic values, they will be accurate to the Lower Midwest region of which is southern and central Indiana is part of. With this information communities can plan to plant strategically to reap the most benefits and to get the most from those budgeted dollars.

This is a very comprehensive project with many details and with most of the data being collected by Davey Resource Group this past summer and fall. Now, we are in the aging the trees phase. The project cannot go further without the aging of the trees. INDY Parks had hoped to be able to complete this portion of the project, but, due to staff limitations, they cannot do it alone.

We need your help.

Paul Pinco, INDY City Forester, is seeking pairs of volunteers to count the tree rings of pre-identified stumps throughout Indianapolis by mid January. The time line is an issue, but the US Forest Service needs the data so that Dr. Greg McPherson can run it, which is an extensive, time consuming task.

When completed, states, cities and towns in the Lower Midwest Climate Zone will be able to use their street tree inventory reports to do an analysis with the free program Stratum which is in the i-Tree Suite (see Stratum link at: http://www.itreetools.org/street_trees/introduction_step1.html )
The analysis will give economic and ecological values based on particular species, size of trees, and the region where they grow. That means that the analysis will not be a general average or statistic. It will be concrete information based on our region. This can have implications for budgets for urban forestry, watershed health, air quality issues, and planting strategically etc.

We need your help to:

Come to a training session where Paul will give directions on counting rings, locations,etc. The training session will be December 7th at 10:00 am at the CUF Office, plan for about 1 hour.
Form a pair to travel to sites to count the rings on the pre identified stumps.
Do all this by mid January.
In addition, the CUF Program is going to do a sample statewide tree inventory and input the data into Stratum (Lower Midwest zone) to get a clearer perspective on the states urban tree population, its values in dollars, and its values environmentally as far as water quality, air quality, pollution uptake etc. (i.e. how much particulate matter does a hackberry collect? How much does it cost to plant and maintain this tree at year 1, 5, 10 20, 40 and on) ? What is the value based on how much to plant and maintain through the years as opposed to the benefits generated for those years?) The end result is a dollar value based on those questions and more---how much does it cost? How much does it give us back in dollars based on environmental and economic benefits? What is the difference between the two? The number is------!

The CUF program has put dollars into this project along with the City of Indianapolis and the Forest Service. The USFS hopes to, in time, do these climate projects in the designated zones all over the nation. It is significant that Indianapolis has committed dollars because they know the importance of this project, its value to INDY, and the lower Midwest area. You can check out the Stratum website to see what Reference Cities are in progress. Minneapolis, MN was the first reference city and is operating off the Midwest Community Tree Guide that was produced as part of their project. A fact sheet on the Minneapolis project can be found at: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/ss/05/uf/trees_payus_back.pdf

Please contact me by Dec. 6 if you can volunteer for this project. There are 150 stumps to age.

I hope you can help. It is important. April and I will be counting rings as well!


PAM

April Murray-Clayton
Volunteer Coordinator
Community & Urban Forestry Office
IDNR, Division of Forestry
6515 E. 82nd Street, Suite 204 Indianapolis, IN 46250-1562
Phone: 317-915-9390
Fax: 317-915-9392
amurray-clayton@dnr.IN.gov



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From: Louks, Pam
Sent: Mon 12/4/2006 8:06 AM
To: Murray-Clayton, April
Subject: RE: tree steward and opportunity to volunteer


April. Please let her know why and what. Thanks.

Pamela C. Louks

Community & Urban Forestry Coordinator
Indiana DNR, Division of Forestry
6515 E. 82nd Street, Ste 204 Indianapolis, IN 46250
PH-317-915-9390
FAX-317-915-9392
E-mail: plouks@dnr.IN.gov

website (s). IDNR, Division of Forestry: www.in.gov/dnr/forestry
Indiana Urban Forest Council-the urban forestry umbrella non-profit in Indiana: http://www.iufc.org/

I'm talking to the adopted orphan

about Parenting.

I am connected to my Father's memory

of being in the custody of his Father; his sister

with his Mother; being farmed out to work

for his dinner; and laying at night dreaming of

what His family would be. (A Grapes of Rath scene)

Having meals daily, a dog, movies...

Having meals. When they hadn't had

meat for a year -- someone found an old

dead opposum which they cooked for dinner.

It tasted so bad they had to throw it in the outhouse.



I went to meet the old woman who had taken him in, near

Pendleton I met with 'Pearl'. She recalled in the sunlight:

"George Noble, I remember him. He'd work all day for a

piece of gum."



I saw another element of my Father that day... the hard working

streek of physicality was it's own reward.

Colombia not edited

I went to Colombia to offer my daughters the opportunity to travel outside the country in an environmnt and with people I knew they would flourish around. I went to Columbia to give my girls the best and cheapest vacation I could. I went to Coloombia to explore and see for myself what Subud is. I went to Colombia because one of my dearest friends will be retiring there and I wanted insight into visiting... and her new life.

I went to colombia to show my daughters the whole world isn't white -- they live three miles from Danny Whiebread Quayle. I went to colombia because the state department said not to. I went to colombia to take cold showers if there was any water. I went to colombia to bbecome sick of coffee forever and ever. I went to colombia to get bitten by every conceivable insect and develop a sinus infrection headaches, and difficulty breathing which kept me in a bunk, which had me wonder how many more inches I had than the slave ships... at least I could go to the latrine when I went to Colombia to bleed in a foreign language. I went to Colombia to lwearn that I'm also allergic to Sulfa drugs and my legs swelled up like elephants. I went to colombia to sniff out some man who would put god above himself and maybe me.
I went to colombia to do some intense purification and difficult latihans. I went to colombia to be saturated with the Subud projects which showed such need in the world I fell ill again and again...about Algeria, Colombia, Ukraine, Ecuador, Peru, Indonesia... I qwanted so mcuh to do something, anything, give, give, and decided I could go home and weed my garden.
I went to colombia to see little boys carrying machine guns. I wentto Colombia to support a poor country's efforts at establishing a university. I went to Colombia to see a beautiful building. I went to colombia ato breathe clean air, take siestas during h=the day and listne to music and dancing all night. I went to Colombia to see the night sky from a different hemisphere. I went to Colombia to ba away from the noise of traffic... and we were three blocks from the Pan-Am highway. I went to Colombia to learn the native healers are angry about the war on drugs taking the healing coke plant our of their homes. It's possible I couldn't enjoy Colombia without the coke plant. I went to Colombia to witness customs practices upon leaving (which are U.S. inspired) which discourages tourism--I was frisked 5 times.
I went to Colombia to discover a frustration at peeping toms who carry guns and don't speak my language...
I countred every passing day until I could leave. My daughters didn't want to leave. They loved it. I went to Colombia for my daughters and Colombia. Never say anything bad about Colombia to my daughters! I came home to sunflowers 12 feet tall, tomatoes full fallen to the ground, corn stripped from the stalk--I hope it was good. I am in a jungle that needs lots of weeding.

deseo a hombre

quien es muchos hombres,
el artista, el cientifico, con el foco en muchas ventanas.

The fountain
camine con me
el arbol de la vida
pajaros
encena del amor de pajaros la banera del pie de la garra