Notice of Intent To Revise Resource Management Plans for Northwestern and Coastal Oregon and Southwestern Oregon in Oregon/Washington and Prepare an Associated Environmental Impact Statement In support of the Oregon and California Revested Railroad Lands Act of 1937 (O&C Act), in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy ...

The BLM wants to go back to mowing the trees of OR and WA with #clearCuts at ridiculous pre-80s rates like we were before the Endangered Species Act caused us to pump the brakes on destroying our bastions of biodiversity: our old-growth forests.

We have until 3/23 to comment.
#publicLands #forests

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimag...

“The forest has got all of these connections and relationships, which women understand really well, and we nurture and honour these things. Men are sometimes, you know, blind to that.”
#forests #ecology #feminism #science #forestry #nature #diversity #logging #clearcuts #climate #BC #canada #UBC

200 years ago, the Erie Canal changed trade and the environment forever Today, the Erie Canal remains vulnerable to invasive plants and animals.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. #eriecanal #NY #upstateNY #ushistory #commerce #nativeamericandisplacement #environmentaldegradation #clearcuts #forestdestruction #invasivespeces #fisheries #nativespeciesextinction #fish #zebramussels #alewives #lamprey

Enforcement has begun at the #Walbran blockade.
Mass #mobilization is needed on site. This is our last chance to save the forest. Bring media with you!

Updates on FB and Instagram: Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek #Blockade
Directions: (48.7003963, -124.5409737)

#OldGrowth #BCpoli #Clearcuts #logging

Lumber giants agree to combine in $7.1 billion deal Rayonier agreed to buy Spokane-headquartered PotlatchDeltic in a deal that would create one of the largest publicly traded timber companies in North America.

truly frightening. #clearcuts #forestkillers #exploitation #environment #climatechange #carbonrelease #lumber #megamergers

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’ Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

“We are freeing up our forests so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money,” Trump has said. “We have massive forests. We just aren’t allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics who stopped us.”
#logging #forests #ecology #environment #trump #clearcuts #roads

#kettle #clearcuts

Court Strikes Down Illegal BLM Logging in Protected Old-Growth Reserves - Oregon Wild A federal court ruled against BLM’s illegal old-growth logging, protecting Late Successional Reserves from increased fire risk and habitat destruction.

Good. Old growth #forests are more #fire resilient than #clearcuts, and protecting them is a better preventative than cutting them down. oregonwild.org/court-strike...

#ecology #WildFires #forestry #biodiversity #environment #conservation #trees #OldGrowthForests 🌿

Circular photograph of a lone fir tree standing against a background of a partially clearcut forest. On the highest branch of this forlorn tree, a new tree has begun to emerge, mirroring the strength and dignity of the once-strong tree that now stands weakened by it exposure to winds and rains.

There are some photographs that I'll never be able to create again.

#nature
#landscape
#forests
#clearcuts
#resistance

On #Hot Hottest #Day in #Human #History
#deforestation patrol was up in #Clearcuts #Logging units recording the #Destruction
A #ClimateAction at night with NightVision gear
Log Truck semi roaring out at 4am because too hot to log during daylight…

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

you have GOT to be [bleep]ing me!?! #amazonrainforest #cop30 #climatesummit #brazil #clearcuts #hypocrisy #wtf

#12DaysOfPodcasts

Day 8 - Aug 21

" #Kananaskis #Clearcuts: Outdated Laws, New Threats"

Guest @cpawssab.bsky.social Joshua Killeen
Co-host @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social

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#Climate #abpoli #ClimatePodcasts #Forests #SaveOurMountains #abpoli #yyc

#Ugly is as ugly does; maybe the vehicles mirror intentions and a lack of understanding of beauty, values, ethics. Think #clearcuts, #tarsands and #cybertrucks.