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Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel Preface. Move over semi-trucks. You are not the most important truck in the world, even though I gave you the starring role in “When Trucks Stop Running”. What really matters are the trucks that grow our fuel: Food. And mining trucks to get materials to make trucks, logging for fuel and infrastructure, […]
‘A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth’
‘A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth’ As BC’s watchdog slams the province’s own logging agency for wrecking ecosystems, advocates demand action. A special report. Brenda Sayers on the stump of one of BC’s once-largest Douglas firs, felled as part of a BC Timber Sales-auctioned clearcut. The tree was three metres in diameter and […]
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say. In the year since the government received a report recommending increased old-growth protection, approvals jumped 43 per cent. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. New mapping released today by the Wilderness Committee indicates […]
The Blockaders
The Blockaders As logging resisters near month eight in Fairy Creek, a judge may order their surrender. Inside their last stand for old growth. A Tyee special report. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade occupy a logging road, preventing loggers for Teal-Jones timber company from moving into one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by […]
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing? Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu’ł First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and […]
‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water
‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water In Glade, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek — even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean waterSarah Cox Jul 20, 2019 17 min read […]
The Company Store
The Company Store Leaves almost nothing to live on In the song Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis (and made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford), the idea of the ‘company store’ referred to a system of debt bondage that effectively trapped workers within an unfair system designed to harvest all of their labor at very low cost. You […]
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 […]
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch Photo Source Gunvor Røkke | CC BY 2.0 “As soon as you are a scientist … you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists … produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks ‘how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, […]
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging Photograph Jeff Gunn | CC BY 2.0 Logging, conducted ostensibly to “thin the forest,” “reduce fuels” or for so-called “restoration,” causes a net loss of carbon from forest ecosystems. One of the best strategies for reducing CO2 levels is by protecting our forests. Yet few environmental […]
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 […]
Will Indonesian Fires Spark Reform of Rogue Forest Sector?
Will Indonesian Fires Spark Reform of Rogue Forest Sector? Massive fires in Indonesia caused by the burning of forests and peatlands for agriculture have shrouded large areas of Southeast Asia in smoke this fall. But analysts say international anger over the fires could finally lead to a reduction in Indonesia’s runaway deforestation. The fires that blazed […]
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive California Spotted Owl. Photo: USFS. When it comes to wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service has it all wrong. In its just-released plan to chop down trees in nearly 17,000 acres hit by last year’s King fire in the Eldorado National Forest – including logging in 28 occupied […]
Logging Plans Could Rekindle BC’s War in the Woods
Logging Plans Could Rekindle BC’s War in the Woods Teal Jones marked our ‘no-go zone’ for clear-cut. Here’s what happens next. Eight months ago, a hiker and friend of our organization found new surveying tape in the central Walbran Valley. There, centred around the iconic Castle Grove, stands one of the largest intact tracts of […]
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English. Puerto Maldonado, Peru – In an Amazonian timber yard bordering Bolivia and Brazil, Nelson Kroll names stacks of rough-hewn hardwoods, pointing out shihuahuaco and pumaquiro species freshly felled from select tracts of the Madreacre logging concession. “In this campaign we’ve cut 39,000 cubic metres of round timber, which is about […]
