The entire idea of burning biomass for "renewable" energy inevitably is going to lead to rich parts of the world burning the forests of poor parts of the world. Or not even just the poorest parts of the world, but even the rural U.S. South....
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The weather is getting warm and people are grilling. It goes without saying that charcoal is a great way to cook. I'm not going to get into the debate over.
The desire of people to redo their homes in the face of being inside for a year has led to an unprecedented lumber boom. Prices have, in turn, skyrocketed. For.
Northwestern timber interests remain bitter about the protection of the northern spotted owl. It's all pretty ridiculous. Not only is there only tiny pockets of unprotected old growth timber left, but there aren't even mills that can process trees of that size anymore, or not...
Perhaps the greatest ecological in American history in terms of impact on an entire ecosystem is the decline of the American chestnut, which disappeared from forests in the early 20th.
The next two months are going to be a shitshow of Trump and his cronies breaking everything they possibly can. That includes in the forest. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
One of the great environmentalist heroes of recent decades is George Atiyeh. Nephew of the last Republican governor of Oregon Vic Atiyeh, this former logger bucked the industry and made a life crusade to protect the Opal Creek Wilderness. Much of this seems to have...
The fires in the West are so depressing. The specific areas of Oregon that are burning--the McKenzie River valley especially, but also the Opal Creek Wilderness--these are my favorite places.
The COVID crisis is child's play compared to the impending climate change crisis that is coming fast and hard. For a decade, her team had been sampling the air from.
Since I know there is an insatiable desire among LGM commenters to discuss Mexican forestry issues, much more so than things that are actually important such as obsessing over which similar presidency will result from various Democrats, let me build on the post the other...
We think of the Mexican cartels as being about drugs, and of course they are, but like any organized crime gang, they are going to get their hooks into anything.
In 2016, I published Empire of Timber, a book demonstrating how timber workers used their unions throughout the 20th century to push their own shifting environmental agendas, pushing back very.