This is the grave of Ferdinand Silcox. Born in 1882 in Columbus, Georgia, Silcox grew up fairly well off. He went to the College of Charleston, graduating in 1903. Then it was onto the new Yale School of Forestry. This was the child of Gifford...
forests
I have talked about this occasionally over the years, but it looks like there's a solid chance the Forest Service is going to go ahead with the mass slaughter of.
One of the great environmental disasters in the U.S. in the 20th century was the elimination of the chestnut tree from eastern hardwood forests. It was the most common tree.
One thing I've found interesting marrying into a gigantic Irish family and thus talking about Ireland with them and going to Ireland is the idea of the beauty of the stark Irish landscape. My wife, for example, thinks the grass slopes of Irish hills is...
Biden should go farther here and name the Tongass a National Monument. That's really the only permanent answer here. But if the nation is to protect its wild lands and.
A student of mine told me about this situation in Atlanta before it led to violence and this is just crazy stuff. Basically, the Atlanta Police Department wants to log.
There's a little spot off one of Rhode Island's rural highways (we do have them) where there is an experimental plot to grow the American chestnut, grafted with bits of other chestnuts to hopefully someday create a tree that can resist the chestnut blight that...
As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad.
"Look at the environmental sustainability!" The idea that we should turn biomass into energy never made any sense and I can't believe it ever moved beyond drunken back of the.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Thanks to right-wing extremism, anything in the...
Eastern Europe isn't just under attack from Russia. It's also under attack from rapacious capital. This story about Ikea demanding to cut the last old-growth forests in Romania may not.
One of the many, many problems with the way we run our economy is that we plunge ahead on every issue without rules and then, maybe just maybe, if things.