The Wildlife News

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March 19, 2015

  • Post Fire Logging–a bad deal for forest ecosystems

    George Wuerthner

    A new publication titled Post Fire logging reduces surface woody fuels up to four decades following wildfire was published in Forest Ecology and Management this week. You can find the article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112714006823 The research will undoubtedly be used by pro logging advocates to justify more post fire logging under the guise that it will…

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Edward Abbey

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