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Why are We Still Logging Our Forests?
Why are We Still Logging Our Forests? Anyone who accepts true science realizes that today’s big forest fires are driven far more by climate warming than by a lack of “active forest management” as claimed in previous editorial opinions. Active forest management, more honestly called “logging,” has always been the timber industry’s cure-all for every […]
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of us. What must […]
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked First in a series about the work of famed botanist . Diana Beresford-Kroeger: The global forest ‘forecasts our future in every breath it takes.’ I have called up Diana Beresford-Kroeger, the famed Irish botanist and bestselling author, to ask about the megafires that carpeted much of […]
Foresters vs. Ecologists
Foresters vs. Ecologists Photo by Andrew Malone | CC BY 2.0 There is a huge difference between the Industrial Forestry worldview and an ecological perspective. Many people assume that foresters understand forest ecosystems, but what you learn in forestry school is how to produce wood fiber to sell to the wood products industry. I know […]
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Trees are dying at unprecedented rates. Can we rethink conservation before it’s too late? Each year, the Earth’s trees suck more than a hundred billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s an impossibly huge number to consider, about 60 times the weight of all the humans currently on the planet. […]
Logging Can’t Restore Burnt Forests
Logging Can’t Restore Burnt Forests Photo by USDA Forest Service Alaska | CC BY 2.0 Every time I drive up to Mount Bachelor in Central Oregon I pass the Deschutes National Forest’s logging and mastication projects. The Forest Service and the Deschutes Collaborative suggest they are “thinning” the forest to preclude large wildfires and to […]
Making Local Woods Work
Making Local Woods Work The Forestry Commission estimates that 47% of England’s woodlands are unmanaged. If you like to think of woods as wild places and flinch at the idea of a tree being felled, then you might consider this a good thing. But woodlands, at least in this country, need management. Whilst truly wild […]
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse? Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome. For a moment, the most important news in the entire […]
Hornshurst Forest Garden – growing food in a forest clearing
Hornshurst Forest Garden – growing food in a forest clearing As many of you know, permaculture will often have you disappear down a rabbit hole, if not an entire warren. Or, in permaculture-speak, will take you off the well-beaten track to explore those infamous edges. The Hornshurst Forest Garden is one such edge. It is […]
Tree Crops
TREE CROPS For thousands of years, farmers have generally differentiated forestry and agriculture. Forests were either left alone or planted and maintained as a source of fuel and building material. In the best of cases, certain trees also offered forage for livestock and other farm animals. The farm fields were generally kept clear of any […]
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people. In Borneo, an island shared by […]
The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’
The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’ An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of “core forest” — remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes — are vanishing even faster. Core forests are disappearing because a tsunami of new roads, dams, power […]
The Rapid and Startling Decline Of World’s Vast Boreal Forests
The Rapid and Startling Decline Of World’s Vast Boreal Forests Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the fate of the huge boreal forest that spans from Scandinavia to northern Canada. Unprecedented warming in the region is jeopardizing the future of a critical ecosystem that makes up nearly a third of the earth’s forest cover. The boreal […]
