FGASA E-NEWS July 2013

FGASA E-NEWS July 2013
In this month’s edition:
New Trails Guide card
FGASA-sappi Tree Knowledge Certificates
Trees and us by Grant Hine
New Tree book
Trails Guide reminder cards
Client checks and briefing are crucial for the safety of clients, animal and yourself as guide.
The pocket-sized card information will become “second-nature” to you if you go over the
information just to remind you every-time you conduct a guided walk in dangerous game areas
as a Back-up or Lead guide. Free with every Dangerous Game Logbook purchased.
New
A card to carry with you
(pocket size) to remind you of
important Trails guide checks
‘Reminder card’ for Trails Guide learners
The Card contains the following:
Client Checks before a walk
Client briefing before a walk
Checks before an intended
approach
Considerations before an
approach
FREE to all Back-up and Trails
Guide learners

What’s that tree?
FGASA-sappi Tree Knowledge
Learn and understand tree identification and interpretation by
completing the workbook requirements for the FGASA-sappi Tree
Knowledge Certificates.
FGASA in conjunction with sappi are
offering five Tree Knowledge Certificates
awarded on successful completion of
the required workbooks.
The workbooks for each region include questions
pertaining to all the information included in the
Sappi tree spotting book for each region. Purchase a
copy of the book for a region and the FGASA-sappi
workbook from the FGASA office.
LOWVELD REGION HIGHLANDS REGION CAPE REGION
KWAZULU-NATAL &
EASTERN CAPE REGION
BUSHVELD REGION

Trees and us
by Grant Hine
Trees and us
Every day, a forty foot tree takes in ±190 litres of
dissolved nutrients from the soil, raises this
mixture to its topmost leaves, converts it into
±4½ kilograms of carbohydrates and releases
about 18cubic metres (60 cubic feet) of pure
oxygen into the air.
Not only do plants support our physical well-being as conveyers of oxygen, plants can also support our
energetic well-being. For example, trees act as grounding rods in facilitating the movement of beneficial
energy and life force from the sky which is positively charged (yang) to the earth, which is negatively
charged (yin), and back. Within dynamic columns of light, trees maintain an area of vitalised, lifeenhancing
energy upon the surface of the earth. When we sit or stand near trees, we come within range
of their dynamic channel of energy.
While trees and human beings may appear on the surface to be completely dissimilar, we share several
important commonalities that make energetic and spiritual experiences possible between us. For
example, human beings have haemoglobin, which moves oxygen through our bodies in the life-giving
river of blood. Haemoglobin is stunningly similar to a tree's chlorophyll in structure and purpose.
Chlorophyll an essential component of photosynthesis, helps plants obtain energy from sunlight via its
molecules, which absorb light and transfer its energy. Both chlorophyll and haemoglobin bring life force
energy into the living system. In addition the structures of haemoglobin and chlorophyll are
astonishingly similar. The primary difference is that haemoglobin uses iron at the centre of the
porphyrin ring, while chlorophyll has magnesium at its centre. The iron gives us red blood (once
exposed to oxygen), and the magnesium gives plants green leaves.
Trees also possess a system that is similar to the human circulatory system. Trees drive sap through
internal tubes in much the same way that blood courses through the human body.
There is also however, a dramatic difference between plants and us. For example plants are able to
create life force energy directly from sunlight. Trees also free up energy in the environment through the
production of oxygen in the atmosphere, while humans use up non-renewable energy and in turn create
waste and polluting by-products. Since oxygen and energy are both important to our physical health and
spiritual growth, trees are excellent partners in our quest for spiritual development.

Trees do however lack the human nervous system and energetic / spiritual structure of chakras. It is
these systems that provide a way for spiritual enlightenment.
Since oxygen and energy are both important to our physical health and spiritual growth, trees are
excellent partners in our quest for spiritual development.
Ultimately, working with trees will strengthen your focus, increase
your abundance and develop your awareness of all signs in
nature. They mirror so much about us that they will speak to us
clearly about our life and what is unfolding within it.
NEW TREE BOOK
FGASA PRICE
R216.00
(Excluding postage)
If Trees Could Talk is not a typical tree guide; it unlocks the world of trees by
taking the reader on a personalized journey, covering 100 of the most popular
and commonly encountered bushveld trees and making learning trees easy and
engaging.
Illustrated by award-winning photographer Shem Compion, If Trees Could Talk is
jam-packed with beautiful stylized visuals and extreme close-up shots that show
the individual features of each tree for a one-glance reference. This guide shines
a new light on trees, bringing them alive and making them accessible to
everyone. Understanding something about trees is key to getting the most out of
an encounter with the bush and if trees could talk, they’d tell you that themselves.