Eucalyptus globulus Silviculture in Spain: New Book

A new booklet summarizing the silvicultural techniques applied to Eucalyptus globulus in Spain has been recently published as part of the new Spanish Silviculture Compendium (+1000 pages of useful tree talk delivered by Rafael Serrada and his team).

Today we bring you the chapter for E. globulus, which was separately edited by ENCE forestry researchers Gabriel Toval, Gustavo López, Federico Ruíz & Reyes Alejano, and which you can download as a PDF (a courtesy of  Wikisilva - Universidade de Vigo).

Eucalyptus globulus Silviculture in Spain

[Download PDF; 2.5 Mb; 44 pages, Spanish] 

(Click image to enlarge)

Reference

Ruiz F; López G; Toval G & Alejano R (2008) Selvicultura de Eucalyptus globulus Labill. en "Compendio de Selvicultura Aplicada en España" Ed. Serrada R; Montero G; Reque JA; INIA & Fundacion del Conde del Valle de Salazar. p. 117-154

Summary of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Eucalyptus cultivated forest typology
3. Eucalyptus Regeneration Treatments (harvest timing, coppice cycles, cutting height, harvest coupe allocation, treatment and uses for harvest residues)
4. Eucalyptus Improvement Treatments (shoot selection, soil preparation, understorey control, thinnings, pruning, fertilization, phytosanitary measures)
5. Eucalyptus Growth & Productivity (site index, tree stocking, harvest cycles)
6. Social & Environmental Impacts of Eucalyptus plantations
7. Bibliography

A courtesy of Wikisilva - Aula de Silvicultura

---

Contact us / Subscribe to Eucalyptologics

Contact GIT Forestry Consulting - Eucalyptologics

GIT's Eucalyptology Topics

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via RSS

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via e-mail

© 2007-2008 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.

Managing Eucalyptus Pulp Mill Solid Residues - by Celso Foelkel

Successful Management of Eucalyptus Pulp & Paper Mill Solid Residues

by Celso Foelkel

(Click image to enlarge)

Summary of Contents

• Introduction
• Residues & More Residues: What amount of them do we really have in our factories?
  
• Key Points for Solid Residue Management in Pulp & Paper Mills
  
• Steps of a Successful Strategy for Solid Residue Management in Pulp & Paper Mills
• Minimizing Solid Residue Generation in our factories
• Relevant Facts for Solid Industrial Residue Management
• Final Disposal of Industrial Solid Residues:  Burial Pits
• Non-Processal Solid Industrial Residuess at Mill
• Some Real Case Studies on Solid Residue Management at Eucalyptus Pulp & Paper Mills
• Final Considerations
• References and recommended literature
  
• Acknowledgements

(Download: PDF 13.5 MB, 128 pages)

See other chapters of the EUCALYPTUS ONLINE BOOK

English version :: Portuguese version

Have you read the EUCALYPTUS ONLINE NEWSLETTER?

English version :: Portuguese version

Technical coordination - Celso Foelkel
Webmaster / editing - Alessandra Foelkel
Celsius Degree: Phone (+55-51) 3338-4809
Copyright © 2007-2010

Eucalyptus Online Book & Newsletter are technical information texts written and made available free of charge to all people involved with the forestry and utilization of the Eucalyptus. It depends only on registering yourself to receive them.

This knowledge oriented service was made possible through sponsoring support provided by ABTCP - Brazilian Technical Association of Pulp and Paper and by Botnia, Aracruz, International Paper do Brasil, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates , Suzano and Votorantim Celulose e Papel. The opinions expressed in the texts are those of the author or coming from the referenced technical literature. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.

Eucalyptus morrisbyi: First time blooming in the UK

Tom Hart Dyke, worldwide plant hunter, creator of World Gardens and avid plant collector able to make Silver Princesses bloom strikes again with yet another horticultural success.

In the grounds of Lullingstone Castle, one of the rarest Eucalyptus species has bloomed for the first time to become the first acclimatized specimen of its kind in the UK.

(Click image to enlarge for a full print)

Back in 1999, while plant hunting in Tasmania, Tom carefully collected a small amount of seed from one of the rarest tree species in the island and one of the least common eucalypts in cultivation around the world, Eucalyptus morrisbyi. And from those seeds, these blooms.

The late "casual" discovery of the species by Robert Brett in 1939 and its scarcity in the wild had prevented it from becoming widely cultivated overseas, as it happens with more common eucalypts. This endangered endemism is nowadays at risk of disappearing in its natural habitat due to poor recruiting of new seedlings, genetic contamination, ocasional drought and browsing. Just some 2000 specimens of Morrisby's Gum are known to survive in wild populations, as its main habitat was cleared for other uses by early settlers many moons before the trees were discovered.

Fortunately, a keen interest from researchers at the School of Plant Science (UTAS) to work out the problems and outline solutions for conservation of this gum tree, plus a proper support from competent administrative bodies in Tasmania mean that E. morrisbyi is currently under the protective umbrella of a recovery plan. May it always be.

For cultivation overseas, like Tom, use respectfully collected seed, or better if sourced from ex situ plantings.

Interesting Literature

• Threatened Species Section (2006). Flora Recovery Plan: Morrisby’s gum, Eucalyptus morrisbyi Year 2006-2010. Department of Primary Industries and Water, Hobart. ISBN 0 7246 6354 1

• Jones, RC; McKinnon, GE; Potts, BM & Vaillancourt, RE (2005) Genetic diversity and mating system of an endangered tree Eucalyptus morrisbyi. Australian Journal of Botany, 53 (4). pp. 367-377. ISSN 0067-1924

• Jones, RC; McKinnon, GE; Wiltshire, RJE; Potts, BM & Vaillancourt, RE (2005) Conservation genetics of an endangered endemic, Eucalyptus morrisbyi. Advances in Plant Conservation Biology, implications for flora management and restoration : symposium program and abstracts 25-27 October 2005 / Dept. of Conservation & Land Management, Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, Perth, Western Australia, pp. 29.

• Wiltshire, RJE; Potts, BM & Reid, JB (1991) Phenetic affinities, variability and conservation status of a rare Tasmanian endemic, Eucalyptus morrisbyi R.G. Brett. In Banks, MR; Smith, SJ; Orchard, AE & Kantvilas, G. (Eds.) Aspects of Tasmanian Botany – A Tribute to Winifred Curtis. 31(3): 213-229. Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart.

• Brett, R.G. (1939). The description of a new eucalypt species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 129-130
  

Contact us / Subscribe to Eucalyptologics

GIT's Eucalyptology Topics

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via RSS

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via e-mail

© 2007-2008 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.

Pinusletter nº 11 - by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 11 - November 2008

by Ester Foelkel

Summary of Contents

• Editorial
• Os Pinus no Brasil: Pinus greggii / Pinus in Brazil: Pinus greggii
• Referencias Técnicas da Literatura Virtual. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - África do Sul / Technical References in Online Literature. CSIR - South Africa
  
• Cursos e Eventos / Courses & Events
• Pinus-Links
• Produçao e Uso de Composto de Casca de Pinus / Pinus Bark Compost Production and Uses
• Cogumelos Comestíveis Asociados aos Pinus / Edible mushrooms associated to Pinus
• Mini-artigo Técnico por Ester Foelkel: Produçao de Sementes Genéticamente Melhoradas de Pinus / Technical Mini-Article by Ester Foelkel: Genetically Improved Pinus Seed Production

Previous Issues

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 10 - October 2008  by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 9- September 2008 by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 8- August 2008 by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 7 - July 2008 by Ester Foelkel
PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 6 - June 2008 by Ester Foelkel
PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 5 - May 2008 by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 4 - April 2008 by Ester Foelkel
PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 3 - March 2008 by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 2 - February 2008 by Ester Foelkel
PinusLetter - The Pinus Newsletter - nº 1 - January 2008 by Ester Foelkel

PinusLetter is a new creation of Celsius Degree, a vision for the development of cultivated forests and their products based on the concepts of technology, eco-efficiency, economy and social and environmental sustainability. The main stars of this newsletter will be tree species within genus Pinus. This free online publication is a courtesy of ABTCP - Brazilian Society for Pulp & Paper Technology and CRA - Conestoga-Rovers & Associados - Engenharia SA. It will be first launched in Portuguese language only but will include references to articles, websites and Pinus-Links at a global level. Hence, you will be redirected to visit sites in English, Spanish, French languages, in addition to Portuguese.

Have you read the EUCALYPTUS ONLINE BOOK AND NEWSLETTER?

Coordenação e Redação Técnica - Ester Foelkel & Celso Foelkel
Editoração - Alessandra Foelkel
GRAU CELSIUS: Tel.(51) 3338-4809
Copyrights © 2005-2008

Eucalyptus in India: timber and wheat polyculture

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado
GIT Forestry Consulting - Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal - www.git-forestry.com - EUCALYPTOLOGICS

A combined plantation of Eucalyptus and wheat? Combining Eucalyptus and pasture? Planting at once Eucalyptus and green manure crops? Noooo. Are you nuts? That's impossible. Everyone knows the "Environmentalist Theorem nº 835/a" states that Eucalyptus are those evil alien invasive tree species poisonous to your soil, and where you plant one, nothing can grow again.

Luckily for our hungry world, reality is almost always very different to environmentalist mythology.

Eucalyptus Polyculture in India: timber and grain

One out of many good examples of this are the eucalypt and poplar trees of Mr. Piare Lal in Andhra Pradesh and the Punjab. After nearly 40 years of experience in applied forestry science, the grounds of Pragati Biotechnologies (www.eucalyptusclones.com) are today a landmark for high-tech forestry, located not too far away from where the pioneers of the Green Revolution developed 'Kalyan', the first high yielding wheat of India.

But these versatile trees able to yield multiple products and services are not simply raised there for delivery to Indian farmers. Operational fields trials allow visitors to also see the combined outcomes of both tree breeding and intelligent agro-forestry design.

Eucalypt cultivated forests can achieve this way a new dimension: joining agricultural and forestry productions within the same pieces of land. Annual crops of yearly benefit while timber matures.

(Click image to enlarge)

Over 150 different select Eucalyptus clones, of both first generation pure and advanced generation E. tereticornis x camaldulensis hybrids, are being made available by Pragati Biotechnologies to tree investors in Punjab, Haryana & Uttar Pradesh wanting to take advantage of the genetic gains delivered by eucalypt tree domestication and breeding. Doubling or treebling the MAI achieved with standard tree nusery stock and making it compatible with other crops is no joke for a country with ever increasing needs of both food and raw timber. It is however a task for Norman Borlaug styled characters. Of Piare Lal type.

Corollary...

At Eucalyptologics we hope that, next time you hear or read one of the many misguided "environmental activist" trying to spread analphabetism on the subjects of monoculture, invasive alien species or Eucalyptus poisoning soils instead of trying helping fix the real problems out there, you remember cases as the one depicted today. You can then compare and decide for yourself what's going on with all that green mythology spreading like a noxious weed. Luckily, sooner or later, myths fall by their own weight. Or sometimes, with your extra help.

Also at EUCALYPTOLOGICS...

Seven key issues on Eucalyptus and alelopathy
Or seven reasons why stating eucalypts poison soils is mostly... bullshit

Eucalyptus: Myth and Truth

Environmentalists (mono) cultivate analphabetism

Contact us / Subscribe to Eucalyptologics

GIT's Eucalyptology Topics

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via RSS

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via e-mail

© 2007-2008 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.

New Eucalyptus taxon described in Tasmania

Nicolle, D and Potts, BM and McKinnon, GE (2008) Eucalyptus cordata subsp. quadrangulosa (Myrtaceae), a new taxon of restricted distribution from southern Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 142 (2). pp. 71-78. ISSN 0080-4703 [Download, PDF file, 4.2 MB]

Thanks to...

Subscribe to Eucalyptologics

GIT's Eucalyptology Topics

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via RSS

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via e-mail

© 2007-2008 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.

The first cultivated Eucalyptus (I): Kew Gardens

Eucalyptus at Kew Gardens: 235 years later

(Click image to enlarge and download your 1280 x 1280 pixel print)

Eucalyptus at Kew Gardens: 235 years before

(Click image to enlarge. Courtesy of Google Books & Eucalyptologics)

It was the Era of King 'Farmer' George's men. The Era of Banks. Of Cook & Furneaux. And L'Heritièr. And Aiton. The age of discovery. From Adventure Bay they brought the well covered trees back to Europe, to become the first of their kind cultivated out of Australia. The world kept moving, but 235 years and +20 billion cultivated Eucalyptus later, you can still find them at Kew. May the footprints never fade.

Contact us / Subscribe to Eucalyptologics

Contact GIT Forestry Consulting - Eucalyptologics

GIT's Eucalyptology Topics

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via RSS

Subscribe to receive EUCALYPTOLOGICS via e-mail

© 2007-2008 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.