An Alphabet Series on Trees, Forests and Forestry

Forestry is a lot like being a detective solving a mystery.  Sometimes, more often now, you know how the trees and forests started but there are so many things that happen when you are not watching.  Where do animals like to spend their time, and which ones are visiting?  What does the wind do on a windy day, and does the sun shine the hottest.  Like a detective, the forester needs to rely and evaluate things that have been studied and patterns and inferences that can be made to predict what is going on.  It is still putting those pieces together, the detective work, that can be interesting, challenging and rewarding.

Sue Grafton recently passed leaving a legacy of her alphabet series of mystery novels, where detective Kinsey Millhone went forward to solve the puzzle.  In that vein, and working from “a” towards “z”, I plan to start a series of short essays on the subjects of trees, forests and forestry.  To really cover the subject there would need to be many more letters but like in the world of conservation it is better to get started than to just stop.  Forests keep growing.