'Corporate giveaways have been an unmitigated disaster for our forests and for our workers. More of the same won’t fix it.' princegeorgecitizen.com/opinion/opposi…

The best way to accurately predict where deforestation will occur?

By identifying 'Ghost Roads'.

200 people spent 7,000 hours identifying them.

Here's what you need to know about it:

'We gave USFS a path that could have allowed them to cut more trees while causing less harm by protecting old growth, unroaded areas, and water quality. Instead, we have a plan that commits to only one subset of those things. And that’s the logging piece.' carolinapublicpress.org/64011/litigati…

This is what large fallen deadwood looks like in natural forests. Note the bike for scale. Britain should have ambition to restore native woodlands to the point where it once again contains trees like this. All it takes is time and a resistance to intervene & micromanage.

The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching.

“Up to half may die” according to the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

(Photo from Lizard Island in March).
economist.com/science-and-te…

As Canada ignites early and Mexico also suffers from extreme heat and drought, it is the second half of the US wildfire season that worries forecasters. And no, Calif's wet winter does not prevent fires there. cc Dr. Daniel Swain axios.com/2024/05/15/us-…

'Forest protection group files lawsuit to challenge commercial logging in White Mountain National Forest [in NH]...seeks to protect treasured, biodiverse forests around Lake Tarleton and in northern Presidential Range.' standingtrees.org/post/release-f…

By law, the US gov. is supposed to conduct “health assessments” on all public lands.

They show that their program for leasing them out to ranchers is destroying them.

So it avoids assessing the worst plots and refuses to publish the data. This map is the work of whistleblowers:

Amending the Northwest Forest Plan has been big news ever since it was announced- but what does that look like?

Join this free informative webinar on 5/21 at 12pm to learn more about the NWFP!

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Important story in Nevada Independent today: the BLM has moved the alignment of a transmission line to avoid a gold mining claim, but not to avoid a national monument. Great #FOIA work from Basin & Range Watch:
thenevadaindependent.com/article/watchd…

We are back out in the Yarra Ranges National Park assessing trees🌳 we surveyed close to a month ago, we sent that data and evidence to ForestFireManagement Steve Dimopoulos MP Tanya Plibersek weeks ago, here's a thread on what we found today (Wednesday 16/5)

It is insane that big old trees like this are still being cut.

Destroyed ancient forests in Styx Valley of Giants where Ali Alishah, Bob Brown, Colette Harmsen & many others were arrested protesting against logging. Forests just 200m from world heritage area had never been logged before. Minister Eric Abetz on ABC Hobart was wrong. #politas

'When you cut down big #trees and put them on a truck and take them to a sawmill … that is #logging .” Rogue native forest logging continues in #VIC disguised as 'fire management.' #auspol Steve Dimopoulos MP theguardian.com/australia-news…

Solar industry pushes for extinction of the desert tortoise. 'Exclusions for desert tortoises alone would eliminate roughly 40 proposed solar projects, said Peter Weiner, a partner with Cox Castle who represents solar developers.'

news.bloomberglaw.com/energy/biden-s…

Ancient #trees harbouring animals on the verge of #extinction inside an #Australian national park have been cut down by government contractors, in a move a described as 'complete madness'. #springst #auspol #biodiversity au.news.yahoo.com/national-park-…

For over a month, conservationists had warned a Victorian government plan to fell old-growth hollow-bearing trees in Yarra Ranges National Park would kill endangered wildlife.

This morning a flattened greater glider was found next to a tree.
au.news.yahoo.com/devastating-fi…

Gov Hochul does the right thing, unlike .Gavin Newsom She said: 'The Statewide Solar for All program will generate significant benefits for our health, our environment, our economy, and for the thousands of New Yorkers who will see lower electric bills.” t.ly/FK6xL

We mapped a half billion individual farmland trees in India, and tracked their fate over a decade. Many large trees have disappeared. The paper in Nature Sus.: doi.org/10.1038/s41893…, Viewer: rs-cph.projects.earthengine.app/view/tree. It's a new framework for temporal monitoring of single trees..

'Western Canada is on fire — again...Mike Flannigan, Research Chair in Fire Science at Thompson Rivers Univ., says climate change is the driving force.' thenarwhal.ca/western-canada…