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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 seem particularly important this week, but in fact our issues with forests and environmental degradation...
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New Frontiers in DNA Evidence

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On August 16, 2021
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. One of the many problems facing forests is timber theft, which is awfully hard to...
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The Lumber Boom

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On May 7, 2021
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 years, the price of 1,000 board feet of lumber has generally traded in the $200...
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Breaking Everything They Can

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On November 23, 2020
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) on Wednesday finalized its decision to weaken environmental analysis of many of its plans, excluding a...

George Atiyeh

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On September 16, 2020

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.

Oregon Burning

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On September 10, 2020

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.

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