Trouble in the Headwaters: the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging in B.C. (article has a link to an interesting documentary that is worth watching)
Trouble in the Headwaters: the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging in B #Forestry #Logging #Clearcutting
#Trump admin declares emergency in #California's #federal #forests
The executive action spans the entire state
By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors EditorApril 8, 2025
"A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of #Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s #NationalForests, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California."
Read more:
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-national-forests-logging-20263873.php
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/K6esm
#SaveOurForests #TrumpIsABully #ClearCutting #Redwoods #OldGrowthForests #CarbonSinks #USPol
No more #clearcutting in #Dutch #forests https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/clear-cutting-in-dutch-forests-is-no-longer-allowed/
Received wisdom in #Silviculture is that #Clearfell or #Clearcut coupes mimic nature in #fireclimax habitats. While I agree clearcut / restock can be brutal & we are heavily over-reliant on the system, it seems 'bold' to outlaw it entirely, regardless of scale. Surely local production and 'better' rather than 'less' silviculture would provide #timber for less #carbon intensive #building solutions
“#Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws & bulldozers on our federal #forests,” said Randi Spivak, the #PublicLands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an #environmental group. “#Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase #fire risk, drive species to #extinction, #pollute our #rivers & #streams, & destroy world-class recreation sites,” she said.
#law #ClimateCrisis #conservation #ecosystems #habitats #Wildlife
"Elsewhere in the state, tracts of old-growth oak have been clearcut to make way for utility-scale solar farms."
#CharlesEisenstein, 2023
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can
WTSF?!?
This is not progress.
This is not civilized.
We need to protect remaining #OldGrowth #AncientForests. They're our 2nd largest #CarbonSinks - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. #Clearcutting forests should be banned.
#WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #BritishColumbia #VancouverIsland #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #Ecocide #PacificNorthwest #photography #WorldInMyEyes #DisabledPhotographer #Backroads #VanIsle #Cascadia #PNW #Stumps #ProtectNature #ProtectForests #environmental #ClimateAction #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #HumanDestruction
‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forests - This long read is totally worth the time. Many of these logging and timber harvesting companies have obtained ‘sustainable’ labels for environmentally devastating practices. It’s a lie, pure and simple. How myopic can regulators be? #Environment #logging #TimberBarons #Timber #ClearCutting #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Canada https://www.reuters.comhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/canada-forests-climate/
"The increasing severity of #wildfires and #drought highlights that reforming #ForestStewardship – taking better care of the forests, including safeguarding #OldGrowthForests – is one of our best hopes to protect communities across B.C.
Harmful #forestry practices like #clearcutting and #unsustainable #IndustrialLogging make extreme heat and wildfires worse. #Clearcuts are #tinderboxes, more prone to creating embers because dead trees and branches dry out in the hot sun and become more #flammable. Tree plantations and improperly tended young forests also increase wildfire risk: Younger trees have thinner bark and low-hanging branches that can act as ladder fuels, and the trees are often planted too close together, making it easy for fire to spread.
Fortunately, intact and properly managed #forests are more resilient to the worsening wildfires and heatwaves. For example, #OldGrowth #rainforests have dense canopies which provide cooling shade that resists fire. They are cooler and wetter than young forests, acting as giant sponges. Old-growth trees in the drier interior have thick bark, high branches and are widely spaced which all reduce #WildfireRisk.
#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform
Northvolt sanctioned for clearcutting in wetlands outside Montreal
Northvolt, the electric battery making company, has been issued a notice of non-compliance by the Quebec Environment Department.
#globalnews #Canada #Clearcutting #Ecosystem #ElectricVehicles
https://globalnews.ca/news/10390849/northvolt-sanctioned-for-clearcutting-in-wetlands/
Northvolt sanctioned for clearcutting in wetlands outside Montreal
Northvolt, the electric battery making company, has been issued a notice of non-compliance by the Quebec Environment Department.
#globalnews #Canada #Clearcutting #Ecosystem #ElectricVehicles
https://globalnews.ca/news/10390849/northvolt-sanctioned-for-clearcutting-in-wetlands/
Northvolt sanctioned for clearcutting in wetlands outside Montreal
Northvolt, the electric battery making company, has been issued a notice of non-compliance by the Quebec Environment Department.
#globalnews #Canada #Clearcutting #Ecosystem #ElectricVehicles
https://globalnews.ca/news/10390849/northvolt-sanctioned-for-clearcutting-in-wetlands/
In B.C.’s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
In B.C., a forest-harvest plan is raising hard questions and charged debate about the effects of logging on forest hydrology and flooding.
#globalnews #Environment #BCFlooding #ClearCutting #Logging
https://globalnews.ca/news/10366238/bc-debate-watershed-science/
In B.C.’s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
In B.C., a forest-harvest plan is raising hard questions and charged debate about the effects of logging on forest hydrology and flooding.
#globalnews #Environment #BCFlooding #ClearCutting #Logging
https://globalnews.ca/news/10366238/bc-debate-watershed-science/
In B.C.’s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
In B.C., a forest-harvest plan is raising hard questions and charged debate about the effects of logging on forest hydrology and flooding.
#globalnews #Environment #BCFlooding #ClearCutting #Logging
https://globalnews.ca/news/10366238/bc-debate-watershed-science/
@TimBousquet @joan_baxter
One woodland owner is all it takes, to clear-cut acres per day.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+Chester,+NS+B0J+2K0/@45.0409038,-62.2255568,775m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4b5b77118411655f:0xbf1716b1c16ee603!8m2!3d45.033333!4d-62.216667!16s%2Fm%2F05p8z5r?entry=ttu #Clearcutting #Woodlands #NovaScotia #Forestry
The deer and other animals are along the highways now..
Did you know that The Animals of Farthing Wood is forbidden in Sweden?
"After an area has met the legal requirement for #regeneration, it is handed back to the state — and is no longer the responsibility of #VicForests to look after.
“Many of these coupes that have failed regeneration have actually been ticked off and handed back to the Victorian government some years back in a failed state,” said Mr Patton."
#logging #ClearCutting #Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614
Consultant cited by airport authority says he never recommended cutting entire forest | CBC News https://bit.ly/47LamtR #ottpoli #HuntClubForest #Ottawa #Lies #Clearcutting #OttawaInternationalAirport #OIAA #Fail #EicFail #OttawaAirport #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
Ness Creek residents concerned about clear-cutting near iconic festival grounds
Clear-cutting activities are underway across the road from the Ness Creek festival grounds. This development has raised concerns among local residents.
#globalnews #Environment #ClearCutting #NessCreekFestival #NesslinLake
https://globalnews.ca/news/10065035/ness-creek-residents-concerned-about-clear-cutting-near-iconic-festival-grounds/
