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1.นายอภิวัฒน์ คุณารักษ์ ผู้อำนวยการสำนักงานสิ่งแวดล้อมภาคที่ 1
2.นายฤชุชัย โปธา สมาคมศิษย์เก่าโรงเรียนเมตตาศึกษา
3.ดร.วสันต์ จอมภักดี C/O คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ มช.
My neighbor tells me of a flood years ago on the Chaopraya plain where all the trees, which were mainly fruit trees died except for big American Rain Trees.
I asked her about Don Takien (Hopea odorata), the famous spirit tree which one lined all our rivers and used for making war canoes. “Oh they are all long gone” she said.
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The picture below is one of Chiang Mai’s best kept secrets. It shows the newly renovated Chiang Mai Municipal swimming pool.
Located on the eastern side of the road which circles the Municipal Arena in Chang Peuk, access is to the northern end of the pool via the small ticket box shown at the top left corner of this picture.
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This past August of 2011, before the storm which unleashed flooding on Chiang Mai at the end of September, the Friends of the Chiang Mai Railway Park produced a pamphlet outlining some of our concerns at the conditions in the park with some suggestions for improvements.
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Friday 21st October 2011 @ JJ Market meeting hall – (located near Tesco Lotus Kam Tien) @ 2 p.m
a planning meeting for Thai Environment Day 5th December 2011. &
will give a lecture on
When: Sunday, October 23rd, 2011, at 15.00.
Where: Dokmai Garden.
Driving information: http://www.dokmaigarden.co.th/howtoget.php
Cost: 100 Baht, includes coffee or tea.
Registration: To get a ticket for 100 Baht, please send an e-mail at least one day in advance to info@dokmaigarden.co.th
Most welcome!
Ketsanee Seehamongkol & Eric Danell
After four days travelling in Laos, including two along the MeKhong upstream from LuangPaBang to Chiang Khong ,and seeing NO good farm land management, numerous landslides taking croplands down into the red streams and swidden farming the whole way along the MeKhong except for occasional forest patches, this very pertinent email arrived. The sender is bird-watcher Khun Iain, formerly a tree planter with Gum Hak Doi Suthep, now living in the Shetland Islands.
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Bush planting in September in Chiang Mai is usually not recommended. For best growth and survival in the dry seasons plant early once the rains have come and brought moisture to soften the soil. However this year as well as some very early May planting – impossible in 2010 when even in the first week of June the ground was rock hard – we have tried a small planting of mainly understorey plants.
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Just back from Nan & Phrae yesterday and witnessing Eucalypus die back over several provinces. Somewhat less severe it appears in the degraded hills coming into Lampang from Phrae.
What might the cause be? No sign of insect attack on this exotic unpalatable species. It is said there is only one species of native bird that will consider nesting in a Eucy so not say parrots tearing off leaves and flowers as seen in Australia. No sign of widespread ring barking and hardly likely there is a campaign to poison the trees.
Well what is different this year that may be the culprit. If my mother were still alive she would surely blame the weather. This year has seen the longest wet season in my 12 years in Thailand, with good rains in May, excellent for planting native trees. One might expect the Eucalyptus camaldulensis, also known as the River Red Gum to be prospering. Yes they love to grow near rivers and around swamps and flooding spreads their seed but the Red Gum is also drought tolerant and like Teak needs a period when the ground is dry.
Australia, the land of the Eucalyptus, has seen widespread death from causes as diverse as insect attack and soil compaction by cattle, but the most insidious has been the root fungus Phytophthora cinnamoni which is spread by water in the ground. Can we have advice from a tree pathologist in Thailand?
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