Old-growth forest
Tuva Project: Of Oxen and Fallen Timber
The Osa Peninsula juts off of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, just above Panama. To those who value biological diversity, this is holy ground. The Osa possesses some of the most spectacular primary forest in Central America. A small, sustainable forestry project there is providing an alternative to conventional timber harvesting. Instead of cutting standing trees, […]
Forest Canopy & Climate
Forests play an important role in regulating the earth’s climate by filtering heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They eliminate so much CO-2 that some governments are counting on better forest management to help slow down climate change that’s been set in motion by the use of carbon based fuels. But, little is known […]
Blanton Forest
In the eastern United States, old-growth forests south of where the glaciers ended are fragments of an ecosystem perhaps a hundred thousand years old. In Southeastern Kentucky, a 2300-acre tract known as Blanton Forest is just such an ecosystem ? and state and private organizations want to turn it into a nature preserve while developing […]
Timber Salvage Logging Rider: Dead or Alive
The Timber Salvage Rider is meant to allow for the removal of dead trees to prevent large forest fires. But another type of firestorm seems to have been kindled. Ley Garnett of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the controversial law that permits timber companies to take old growth forest trees, despite their presidentially protected status, […]
Blanton Forest
In the eastern United States, old-growth forests south of where the glaciers ended are fragments of an ecosystem perhaps a hundred thousand years old. In Southeastern Kentucky, a 2300-acre tract known as Blanton Forest is just such an ecosystem ? and state and private organizations want to turn it into a nature preserve while developing […]