Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


I am talking about vulnerability of the spruce to fires to prove you wrong and show the world that you actually don't know what you are talking about despite having a diploma in the field - so again how does spruce suppress fires according to you?

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

you haven't addressed the points made in the article at all - I guess you refuse you - because well you know better?


logging in Białowieża outside the strictly protected areas like the National Park took place also in the years 2012-2015 (i.e. during PO rule) - the thing the limits were too low to stop the gradation of the spruce bark beetle - it was a rotten compromise on the side of PO simply - it didn't resolve any issues

Language / Phonetics' Question Regarding the Production of the 'r' sound in Polish. [9]

hi Stanley - Polish r is definitely a trill but quite a short one (with around three not very pronounced taps) - if you are trying to pronounce it the Spanish way (very trilled) it sounds unnatural in Polish - those Poles who can pronounce the trill can pronounce the R's the Spanish way but they don't normally do so in Polish - hope that helps

btw I had problems with the R sound myself as a kid up to about 6 years of age

oh well - and I have trouble getting around to pronounce R as a single tap (which some languages require)

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


please point to the untruths in the article if there are any - instead of dismissing it outright as propaganda - and PiS does NOT control Gazeta Polska - Gazeta Polska just happens to support the government - you are yourself spreading anti-PiS propaganda - unashamedly

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

I guess you never read what contradicts your point of view but hey maybe you will try this time - niezalezna.pl/78325-obalamy-mity-ekologow-o-puszczy-bialowieskiej-prawda-jest-calkiem-inna

and again - am I wrong when I say that spruce bark is not even 1cm thick on the biggest species which makes the species vulnerable to fires - your authority is on the scales you know

or please explain how does spruce is able to suppress fires

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


where do you sea clear cut here - I can see plenty of trees standing


and with the spruce somehow promoting fires or being able to suppress fires you are actually making yourself look like a fool - so behold everybody who reads this thread - despite the fact that this guy (CasualObserver) holds a PhD in the general subject of the thread he doesn't actually know what he's talking about

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


how can you tell the felled ok was in Białowieża - does it show in the photos

clear cuttings - where all trees are infested what is there to leave


at first you said all conifers promote fires - spruce is a conifer, no - and suddenly it doesn't promote fires but somehow manages to suppress them - how am I supposed to believe you know what you are talking about

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


no I haven't been to THIS forest - but I doubt your report to be honest - and even if a couple of oaks were felled it doesn't really matter on the grand scale - and on the grand scale I very much doubt the felling looks like a wholesale one (i.e. everything goes)


suppress fire - spruce - how - are you able to explain this? even its needles are full of resin and you are talking about suppressing fires

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


if it's not resistant then it is vulnerable no? as you would expect from a tree with a half centimeter of bark - now look at Scottish pine aka sosna zwyczajna and how thick it's bark becomes at the bottom of the trunk - no minor undergrowth fire can harm as opposite to spruce

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

so Casual - can you explain how spruce is fire resistant with like half centemeter of bark on the biggest examples?

and your proof that all species are equally felled is hmm anectodal you know - you know the word I guess

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


what is this thing - never heard of this - I know that PiS managed to hike the value of Orlen by more than 20 per cent during their rule - and this counts in billions - you heard about Orlen haven't you?

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

@CasualObserver

btw as far as I know almost pure spruce stands or majority spruce stands only developed in Białowieża forest after an extensive period of logging during the I World War by Germans

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


please explain how in your theory spruce if fire tolerant

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

do you know the typical habitat of spruce - ever heard that it's called Norway spruce in English - do you still think spruce (aka Norway spruce) is fire tolerant

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


oh and you are an authority on the subject - please enlighten me your highness

and a paranoid authority at that - who would have thunk

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


bullshit my friend - spruce is completely vulnerable to wildfires - that it has resin proves nothing - in fact if anything spruce resin makes it even more vulnerable

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


I doubt you can tell a spruce from an oak - after all you said spruce is a wildfire-resistant tree

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


where did you get it from? TVN?

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

I might have exaggerated a bit, yes - maybe I thought hectares

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


first of all these were not pictures from the National Park of Białowieża aka strict reserve
secondly milions of square kilometers of spruce forests were wiped out in Germany by the bark beetle - ESPECIALLY the national parks - they look like a desert at the moment

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


will tourists pay to see this?



or maybe this

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


spruce is definitely not a fire-adapted tree- because of it's thin bark it dies in most forest fires and so do its seeds

News / Poland to join anti-ISIS coalition [22]


the actual statue has not been mounted there yet - it's only the pedestal topped with an information board

Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]


it happened in the past before the new restrictions - starting back then when land was first given for sale by Agencja Nieruchomości Rolnych

Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]


they are buying property or rather already bought swathes of land through Polish "słupy" = people with little money but ready to be willless instruments in the hands of Germans - mostly in previous German territory - they offer much higher prices than local farmers can afford - there was an effort to curb this by current governmet (like dolnoslask said) but it's hardly perfect

Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]


right now Macron and Merkel are diggin up the foundations of the EU - namely the freedom of capital movement and freedom of business operations - I am not sure this is the same EU they are envisioning we agreed upon in 2004 - there is also of course the issue of immigrant quotas - should I also mention that Polish farmers receive 2 times lower subsidies than their German counterparts (not to mention the French farmers) - or that Germany despite loud outcries against Putin is actually essentially in bed with him (see NordStream 2)

Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]


we need America to be a counter-weight to Germany and protection against Russia - most Poles view Americans favourably - even Trump is not despised in Poland for the most part

Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]


we are working on one Russian person self-esteem - that was a rhetoric or loaded question and the OP had in mind that Polish people contributed next to nothing

Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]


it's Karolina Wozniacki

Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]


Marku, Łobaczewski spent all his life in Russia. He was a child of Russian speaking parents. if he had any Polish ancestry (of which there is no mention in sources) it must have been a couple generations before