tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post2616262325316956441..comments2023-11-02T16:01:28.095+08:00Comments on Ibi Benefici Locus Est: Mud Baths and Macarangas at the Raja Musa Peatland Forest~CovertOperations78~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-17400422969223504422010-10-04T04:02:37.627+08:002010-10-04T04:02:37.627+08:00Dear Kitties-In-Sydney,
Please thank your Mama for...Dear <b>Kitties-In-Sydney</b>,<br />Please thank your Mama for her kind advice. You mean we can plant Cinnamomum burmanii in THAT kind of soil? We didn't see any rambai or petai trees but there were some banana, papaya and coconut trees nearby. Bananas and papayas are too short-lived, although they would be good to attract native fauna with. Lemme check with the GEC if we can get some corporation to sponsor some nicer trees -- rambai, petai and cinammon sound very attractive indeed. Thanks very much once again.~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-75339073558752594832010-10-04T03:59:48.325+08:002010-10-04T03:59:48.325+08:00Dear Emily,
Thank you for your support, my fellow ...Dear <b>Emily</b>,<br />Thank you for your support, my fellow tree-lover!~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-91325688990963688372010-10-02T23:20:27.922+08:002010-10-02T23:20:27.922+08:00CO78,
My Mama said you could try planting anything...CO78,<br />My Mama said you could try planting anything from the cinnamon family, or "kampung" trees like jering, rambai or petai. Just observe what the villagers around that area plant in their backyard. purrr...meow!Cat-from-Sydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04316678270023647758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-70467510435023151102010-10-01T12:58:23.146+08:002010-10-01T12:58:23.146+08:00Truly admire You and your stamina!Truly admire You and your stamina!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522078441278942081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-52881248473656966022010-09-27T23:31:10.993+08:002010-09-27T23:31:10.993+08:00Dear Pat,
We feel your love all the way from here!...Dear <b>Pat</b>,<br />We feel your love all the way from here! Thank you! Even if the trees get logged, killed, or just plain wither and die -- we'll just keep planting, we'll just keep nurturing. Nothing can stop us or hold us back.~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-19916317145277804362010-09-27T23:29:28.282+08:002010-09-27T23:29:28.282+08:00Dear Keats,
Thank you for your support! We loved b...Dear <b>Keats</b>,<br />Thank you for your support! We loved being like Johnny Appleseed and Elzéard Bouffier. That's the power of having ideals -- nothing is ever too little or too late.~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-85213058249556854742010-09-27T23:27:03.460+08:002010-09-27T23:27:03.460+08:00Dear Louis,
You are right about the second photo. ...Dear <b>Louis</b>,<br />You are right about the second photo. I was told it used to be a peat forest until it was all cleared for oil palm cultivation. What horrors we bestow upon ourselves in the name of cheap oil! <br />I hope to go back one day and see that the trees we planted had not only survived but thrived.~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-87207810294111174462010-09-27T23:25:14.668+08:002010-09-27T23:25:14.668+08:00Dear Kitties-in-Sydney,
Thank you for the kind off...Dear <b>Kitties-in-Sydney</b>,<br />Thank you for the kind offer! I wish we had known! We itched from the mud for a good part of the way home until we got to the rest area. A wash would have been much appreciated. Would you know of any trees you could recommend for a depleted peat swamp?~CovertOperations78~https://www.blogger.com/profile/05533605886607468773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-23445039264819208802010-09-27T10:28:58.348+08:002010-09-27T10:28:58.348+08:00Hello E, another weekend brimming with good work!
...Hello E, another weekend brimming with good work!<br /><br />Perhaps, once the macarangas get going, other trees can be grown, and the area can become a lovely forest once again. How sad that you need to grow trees <i>so that they won't be illegally logged</i>.<br /><br />As usual, a visit here helped me learn so many new and delightful things :)Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10795820209657289652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-52459138057484688602010-09-25T19:49:53.571+08:002010-09-25T19:49:53.571+08:00What a great workout and teamwork -all under the b...What a great workout and teamwork -all under the burning sun. When you make your next visit, those splindly macarangas will tower over you and you can be proud of being a 'forester'. Have a lovely Sunday tomorrow!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17272333503136774741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-73290848838459672010-09-25T14:22:17.380+08:002010-09-25T14:22:17.380+08:00Was that apparent wasteland in the second photo on...Was that apparent wasteland in the second photo once forested, CO'78? If so, what a scourge has man inflicted on it.<br /><br />Your tree planting project is terrific and you are to be congratulated. <br /><br />I imagine that it takes a great leap of imagination and faith to undertake such a task because trees seem to take so long to grow. Yet, I look back on the then pathetic saplings that were brought in to landscape the new development where I lived in California, on a waterless, barren scrubby hillside and I am surprised that just in my lifetime they have matured into 40 year old trees already.louishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02724442924909561263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037275061245964811.post-74204589321583529012010-09-25T08:50:11.379+08:002010-09-25T08:50:11.379+08:00CO78,
We have family living around the area. If we...CO78,<br />We have family living around the area. If we had known you'd be going there we could organise a red carpet welcoming committee. Or at least a good lunch and clean up. Mama said before they built the Kuala Selangor bridge, her Dad will use the Raja Musa trunk road to go to GrandMa's village in Tg Karang as the ferry service was unreliable. Interesting journey there. I'm sure if someone had consulted FRIM, they'd have suggested other trees than mahang (macaranga). purrr...meow!Cat-from-Sydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04316678270023647758noreply@blogger.com