THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018 AT 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM George Wuerthner is Wilderness Watch’s Advocate-Organizer. He is a noted ecologist author, and activist, has visited more than 400 designated Wilderness Areas in the U.S. His presentation will cover the early years of the Wilderness movement, the creation of the national Wilderness Act and Wilderness …
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This misbegotten U.S. Forest Service program is a gift to the forestry, wood products, and biomass energy industries. It will use taxpayer funds to subsidize projects that promote cutting down forests and burning them for energy or using them in buildings that will be torn down in a few years. It will worsen climate change, …
Leaders touted the economic benefits of these [wood pellet] mills without considering the environmental or health downsides…. In the Southeast, wood pellet mills are 50 percent more likely to be located in low-income communities where at least a quarter of the population is nonwhite… https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-new-environmental-movement-justice-first_n_5af49388e4b0e57cd9f78533
We, the People of Wendell, state that we want this 80-acre, 110-year old oak forest placed in reserve status, and classified as a zone 1 wildland pursuant to the forest management policies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We want our forest as a living, wild and natural asset, not to be “managed” and turned into …
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‘Rip Van Winkle’ Plants Can Hide Underground for 20 Years Rip Van Winkle, the titular ne’er-do-well of Washington Irving’s 1819 short story, famously spent 20 years napping in a forest. This lengthy slumber, apparently triggered by ghost liquor, caused Van Winkle to sleep through the American Revolutionary War. Nearly two centuries later, scientists are shedding …
Until now, scientists thought water moved through trees by osmosis, in a somewhat continuous manner. Now they’ve discovered the trunks and branches of trees are actually contracting and expanding to “pump” water up from the roots to the leaves, similar to the way our heart pumps blood through our bodies. The only difference between our …