Forest and River

Forest

Our National Forest System and the American Forests are losing over one million acres a year to fire, drought, disease, and other causes both natural and man made Current reforestation efforts simply cannot compensate for these losses. The American Indian Foundation has developed a mass reforestation project to help overcome these . terrible losses and return Americas Forest Ecosystems to their natural splendor. As you read  through the site you will find the true facts about the importance of Americas Forest System and  it's effects on our Climate. Plus, how you can join  us in restoring our Forests to their  natural splendorOur National Forest System and the American Forests are losing over one million acres a year to fire, drought, disease, and other causes both natural and man made Current reforestation efforts simply cannot compensate for these losses. The American Indian Foundation
has developed a mass reforestation project to help overcome these . terrible losses and return Americas Forest Ecosystems to their natural splendor. As you read  through the site you will find the true facts about the importance of Americas Forest System and  it's effects on our Climate. Plus, how you can join  us in restoring our Forests to their  natural splendor

The  National Forest Resources for the United States cover 191 Million Acres.+/- In the last ten years we have been losing over one million  acres of Forests each year to
Fire, Drought and other natural causes. The total yearly acreage replanted for the entire country is 2 ½ million acres, Only 6% of thaat going to our National Forests, leaving a 850,000 acre deficit each year and our National Forests in an ever increasing state of decline. We have a self contained a mobile laboratory which gives us the ability to go to each donor or Survivor tree where it grows. Each tree will be given a GPS ID and in addition to donor tissue collected, soil samples taken and a leaf tissue analysis performed.  This Data will be carefully indexed and stored in our tissue data bank creating a valuable research tool for many years to come.


Our Survivor Tree Project is a product of Science to which our foundation brings 300 years of Forest Wisdom accumulated through our American Indian Heritage. The Science Tells us what Nature Should Do … Our Forest Wisdom tells us what Nature Will Do. Our Project will Collect the tissue, grow the embryos and produce the Seed. It Will Then Go to the Forest Service. The Forest Service will then choose the species mix the seed and plant it. Nature will  re- create the Forest Ecosystem ..........
 

River

The ecosystem of a river is the river viewed as a system operating in its natural environment, and includes biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions.River ecosystems are prime examples of lotic ecosystems. Lotic refers to flowing water, from the Latin lotus, to wash. Lotic waters range from springs only a few centimeters wide to major rivers kilometers in width.[3] Much of this article applies to logic ecosystems in general, including related lotic systems such as streams and springs. Lotic ecosystems can be contrasted with lentic ecosystems, which involve relatively still terrestrial waters such as lakes and ponds. Together, these two fields form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology.river is a river with a deep, slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. As vegetation decays, tannins leach into the water, making a transparent, acidic water that is darkly stained, resembling tea or coffee. Most major  rivers are in the Amazon River system and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology, and biology. Not all dark rivers are in that technical sense. Some rivers in temperate regions, which drain or flow through areas of dark black loam, are simply black on account of soil color; these rivers are black mud rivers. There are also black mud estuaries.

 rivers are lower in nutrients than whitewater rivers and have ionic concentrations higher than rainwater. The unique conditions lead to flora and fauna that differs from that in whitewater. Where black water and whitewater combines is attractive to a
diverse group of organisms.

waters are more acidic, resulting in an aluminum concentration greater than that of the more neutral white waters. The major difference is the concentrations of sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium; these are very low in black waters. This has ecological implications. Some animals need more calcium than is available, so for example, snails, which need much calcium to build shells, are not abundant in  The lack of dissolved ions in black waters results in a low conductivity, similar to that of rainwater.