Really not good. 🔥'Exceptional climate change event' could drive B.C. fire weather this week. “We are heading into a warming, drying trend,” she said. “We are going into it with increased drought. The fuels are going to become drier, more susceptible to ignition.” #bcpoli …

'The [western] landscape has been so altered by domestic livestock that we can barely imagine what it looked like before the herds arrived. Forget the Anthropocene; the West is still stuck in the Beefocene.' hcn.org/issues/56-5/th…

'Tree planting in the wake of clearcuts is causing dire consequences for wildlife, increasing the risks of floods and wildfires and slowly killing #forests ...When they say they're reforesting, they're not, they're just replanting, and how many survive?' infotel.ca/newsitem/why-t…

What's also likely to happen on USFS lands under Biden's exec order, unless major public involvement can move the needle. DEIS is expected in June.

'A soundscape ecologist is warning that his audio recordings have drastically changed over the past 30-plus years...'The changes are profound. And they are happening everywhere.'' thecooldown.com/outdoors/sound…

Every year, Canada publishes a ‘State of the Forest’ report which touts itself as “a trusted & authoritative source of comprehensive information on the social, economic & environmental state of Canada’s forests and forest sector'. But do these reports accomplish this promise?

'“Logging coupe TN062G, a #carbon -dense #forest lying a mere 200m away from UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 world heritage area, is being destroyed & will be burnt with the permission of the #Tasmanian Forest Agreement.' bobbrown.org.au/styx-forest-de… #activism #TanyaPlibersek #auspol

Ali Alisha is the fourth #environment alist jailed under Tanya Plibersek & Anthony Albanese 'Nature Positive' #government . He was sentenced to 4 months jail trying to protect World heritage value #forests . #auspol #politas #environment #democracy #humanrights Amnesty International Australia 🕯

Over the weekend, our team of citizen scientists recorded 3 calls of #MaskedOwls in the forest TI013E in the Florentine Valley. Unbelievably, this ancient forest is due to be logged in the coming months.

Jeremy Rockliff — protect threatened species and #endnativeforestlogging

Alliance stops 100 miles of roads and 5,000 acres of clearcuts on Montana's public lands dailymontanan.com/2024/04/30/all… via Daily Montanan #KeepItWild #LynxHabitat

The disappearing old-growth forests of the sea -- 'Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed.'' theguardian.com/environment/20…

'We analysed the past 4 decades of fires across southern Australia, and found fires are becoming more frequent in many of the areas most crucial for protecting threatened wildlife. Long unburnt habitat is disappearing faster than ever.' theconversation.com/gone-in-a-puff…

'Senior managers at both the Minnesota DNR & the USFWS should be held to account for allowing the misuse of federal grants to facilitate logging in Minnesota’s wildlife mgmt areas & aquatic mgmt areas...which has devalued [these protected] habitats.' minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/30/sta…

'An analysis of nearly a quarter of a million forest plots finds that up to half of European forest biodiversity may be lost owing to climate change over the course of this century.' nature.com/articles/s4155…

'Cork forests are threatened by global warming -- Plagues & diseases benefit from climate change. They are fighting back very strongly, and there are currently no solutions to diminish these threats. In some areas, trees are dying.' euronews.com/green/2024/04/…

'The science of relationships is called ecology, but what we call it matters nothing. The real question is, do our citizens know they are only a cog in an ecological mechanism?' ~Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac, 1949) #thicktrunktuesday #forests

'It is generally recognized that silvicultural treatments should follow nature as far as possible. In practice, however, this maxim has usually been forgotten or otherwise violated.' ~S. Spurr & C. Cline (Forestry in New England, 1942) #thicktrunktuesday #forests

Conserving natural forests—much more than starting from scratch by planting trees that will take tens & hundreds of years to become forests—is key to our future. It deserves at least as much attention as the transition to clean energy & transportation. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

'At least one-third of European trees are not adapted to global warming: the number of native European species available to adapt forests to new climate-related upheavals already appears particularly limited and will fall sharply by 2100.' lemonde.fr/en/environment…

More First Nations in B.C. are rediscovering the cultural use of controlled burning to protect communities from wildfires cbc.ca/newsinteractiv…