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 get bad enough, we take some minimal steps on a problem. Take this for example:...
forests
Given my love of forests and my outrage at the crimes that people easily commit within them, I am very happy to see this: In the spring and summer of.
There's very, very little to make one feel good about the state of forests in the world or the state of the American West generally. It's been brutal out here..
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....
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.