[at-l] Zip Stove Environmental Damage

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 2/25/02 5:48:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
saunterer@jimbullard.org writes:


> Clay is never the result of rotting vegetation.  


     *** Sorry, I should have said mineral soil. In NY we call it 'clay' 
soil. It's a reddish hued, homogenous, compact earth occurring under the 
topsoil and above the bedrock. Since glaciers scoured most everything off the 
surface down to the bedrock during their last appearance, I would assume 
those soils were rebuilt from thousands of years accumulation of leaf fall 
and forest decay. Glacier-polished bedrock face can be found *underneath* 
presently existing clay soil deposits. The origin is obviously the millenia 
of forest accumulation since the scouring... 

    A ranger once told me that the NY AT forest went through a series of 
forest successions starting with northern firs. We are currently in a 
declining oak predominance phase moving towards a maple, beech phase 
-according to him...


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