"We had large numbers of trees down".
The plywood industry converts immense numbers of trees into building materials.
Ms. Childress said the company had no estimate of the numbers of trees killed or damaged.
Around the same time, large numbers of trees were felled to prevent the spread of Phytophthora ramorum, more commonly known as sudden oak death.
"I wouldn't want anyone to be too concerned by the large numbers of trees affected by the storm," said a commission spokesman.
So researchers compared the size of the area covered by monarchs and the numbers of trees, both before and after the storm, to determine the reduction in colony sizes.
Prof Jim Falk, of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, told the symposium there were more than 40 distinct methods that could be described as geoengineering, including planting large numbers of trees and painting roofs white.
Much of the Hermitage is actually a designed landscape and largely the work of the 3rd Duke of Argyll who, in the 1750s, planted a large numbers of trees and built the Hermitage.
This would require any emissions that were produced to either be captured at source and disposed of or else to be offset, for example by planting vast numbers of trees.
Judging by the sheer numbers of trees dying to become books about trees, I sense a growing unease about our alienation from the forest world — and a desire to reconnect with it.
