Swedish study concludes: it’s best for the climate to not cut down forests.
Who would have thought, Sherlock?
#forestry #clearCuts #kalhyggesskogsbruk #kalhygge #tretaighackspett
#clearcuts
Day 8 - Aug 21
" #Kananaskis #Clearcuts: Outdated Laws, New Threats"
Guest #CPAWS' Joshua Killeen
Co-host Jenny Yeremiy
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/309464/link/
#12DaysOfPodcasts #Climate #abpoli #ClimatePodcasts #Forests #SaveOurMountains #abpoli #yyc
#12DaysOfPodcasts
Day 8 - Aug 21
" #Kananaskis #Clearcuts: Outdated Laws, New Threats"
Guest @cpawssab.bsky.social Joshua Killeen
Co-host @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/clim...
#Climate #abpoli #ClimatePodcasts #Forests #SaveOurMountains #abpoli #yyc
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jfr7qhenekca6f6qtjgwdr4/post/3l2bhxledqs24
"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
In late June, #BritishColumbia & #GovernmentOfCanada announced that they’ve helped non-profit foundations & trusts buy 8 parcels of land from private owners for #OldGrowth #Conservation, largely on and around #VancouverIsland.
However, all but one of the #forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth #trees, defined by the #BCgovernment as 250-year-old #CoastalForests & 140-year-old forests in parts of the #BCInterior. Instead, 7 of 8 purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been #logged.
Photos taken by members of #environmental organization #AncientForestAlliance #AFA earlier this month show massive old-growth trees being logged by #BCTimberSales, #BCNDP’s own #logging agency, in the Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island. Some of these trees are more than 500 yrs old, according to the organization.
#BCpoli #deforestation #clearcuts #VanIsle #EcoJustice #Ecocide #ecological #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #SaveOldGrowth #AncientForests #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #TreesAreEarthsLungs
B.C. wildlife society opposes clearcut proposal that includes caribou habitat
‘There’s 209 caribou in there and they are kind of our last shot in the southern-most caribou herds,’ said Eddie Petryshen of Wildsight.
#globalnews #Canada #Clearcuts #Logging #mountaincaribou
https://globalnews.ca/news/10615552/bc-shuswap-clearcut-proposal-caribou-habitat/
B.C. wildlife society opposes clearcut proposal that includes caribou habitat
‘There’s 209 caribou in there and they are kind of our last shot in the southern-most caribou herds,’ said Eddie Petryshen of Wildsight.
#globalnews #Canada #Clearcuts #Logging #mountaincaribou
https://globalnews.ca/news/10615552/bc-shuswap-clearcut-proposal-caribou-habitat/
#StopDeforestation ✊️🌲🌳🙏
Two past #photographs together ->
#BigLonelyDoug layered over #deforestation #clearcuts 😢 in #CowichanValley
All the #OldGrowthTrees, in what used to be fully forested area, were razed down. This kind of reckless profits before planet #ClearcutLogging absolutely devastates #ecosystems & it annihilates #WildlifeHabitats.
Please join the ongoing fight to #SaveOldGrowth & for #BCForestryReform. We seriously need to transition & work on #NatureFirst #WildFirst solutions for a more ethical, responsible & sustainable future.
https://ancientforestalliance.org/
Read about Big Lonely Doug:
https://thewalrus.ca/big-lonely-doug/
#CutOutCorruptionNotForests #SaveOldGrowth #TreesAreEarthsLungs #VancouverIsland #ProtectForests #ProtectNature #VancouverIsland #StopEcocide #SaveTheForests #PauseTheSaws #EndClearcutting #StopKillingOldGrowth #TreesOverGreed #BCNDP #BCpoli #Environmental #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EcoJustice #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BCNDPCriminals #Ecocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCNDPNatureKillers #SaveAncientTrees #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Treehugger #TreeProtectors #ForestDefenders #ActivismArt #WorldInMyEyes #ActivistPhotography #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #photography
Canada at it's worst - wiping out the boreal forest system. "Major changes are needed in boreal forest management in Ontario & Quebec for it to be ecologically sustainable, incl a greater emphasis on protection of older forests," researchers said in the study.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/logging-is-degrading-quebec-ontario-s-boreal-forests-and-threatening-caribou-study-1.6712242
#logging #mining #clearcuts #ecocide
You think? #ForestPolicy #ClearCuts #BCPoli
“Biologist says it could indicate a lack of dens”
While rare, there have been recorded cases of bears denning under homes, says Helen Davis, a wildlife biologist with Artemis Wildlife Consultants, which is. based in Duncan, B.C.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-bear-den-1.7073053
Meanwhile, a small but aggressive wildfire on #VancouverIsland continues to burn beside the only major highway linking #PortAlberni #Tofino & #Ucluelet to the rest of #BritishColumbia .
Route is closed until further notice as the nearly one-square-knblaze spreads in steep terrain south of #CameronLake not far from #CathedralGrove home to some of #Canada ’s #oldest & #tallest #trees
#OldGrowth #wildfires #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #ForestryMismanagement #Clearcuts
In case you thought that corporate-driven #deforestation only happens in places like #Brazil or the Democratic Republic of the #Congo :
"Located at #Yellowstone Park’s boundary, south and west of West Yellowstone, South Plateau is gargantuan, boasting more than 5,550 acres of #clearcuts and 56.8 miles of bulldozed #logging roads. This deforestation will top anything we’ve experienced since the Reagan years."
@thenarwhal They're going to kill the ancients 😞 #Death by a thousand #clearcuts in #BritishColumbia under #BCNDP aka #NewDeathParty
#ecocide #CorporateGreed #CurseTheEvilGreedy #deforestation #environmental #ecosystems #NDP #PNW #PacificNorthwest #VancouverIsland #Cascadia #ClimateCrisis #GreedKills #DavidEby #HorganizedCrimes #SuperSelloutBC #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismCanada #ShameOnBC #AncientForests #Ecology #MotherEarth #TreesOverGreed
The cheery numbers the @forestservice has been selling for durable wood products never did add up. The figure still underestimates the release of #carbon by #logging. For example what about the helicopter fuel when they do helicopter #clearcuts like in the #UpperCheatRiver #WV
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RT @TorranceCoste
A reminder that the ad or sponsored tweet you'll see today insisting "forest products are climate-friendly alternatives!" will absolutely…
https://twitter.com/TorranceCoste/status/1649067396731375616
Earth Day Rally urges @forestservice to protect #WestVirginia #OldGrowth #ClimateForests from #clearcuts. https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/morgantown-rally-urges-protection-for-trees-in-upper-cheat-river/
Department of @Interior takes an important step towards a new, strong conservation rule that will re-align @BLMNational public lands management with the needs of today. Part of that is protecting #ClimateForests from #clearcuts https://www.climate-forests.org/post/department-of-interior-moves-to-protect-mature-and-old-growth-trees-and-forests-from-logging
Before the #ClearCuts of the #Monongahela #NationalForest. This #ClimateForest was #WorthMoreStanding
Before the #clearcuts in the #UpperCheatRiver and Hogback projects of the @forestservice . Sammy rounding up the cows. Yes. we still do that.
Thanks to the article linked by @AnthonyPWalker at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8694 we see that the Central #Appalachians are a hotspot of above-ground #carbon storage worldwide. Why is the @forestservice attacking our #ClimateForests with projects like the #UpperCheatRiver #clearcuts?
#StopDeforestation Western Forest Products...more like Whitey(and POC sellouts) FuckNatureUp Posse 👎
#mismanagement #CorporateGreed #clearcuts #Ecocide #DeathZone #IndustrialMurder #NewDeathParty #EcocidalManiacs #AliceLakeLoop #backroads #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #GreedIsADisease
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