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  • Protected Forest Areas May Be Critical Strategy for Slowing Climate Change

    Ralph Maughan

    This may be one of the most cost-effective ways of slowing climate change- I should add, however, that I think we will find that treating areas with other kinds of land cover the right way might prove to be very important too. Protected Forest Areas May Be Critical Strategy for Slowing Climate Change. ScienceDaily

  • What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West?

    Ralph Maughan

    Worse, die-offs are not limited to North America- Next summer will probably be a pretty bad forest fire season in the Pacific Northwest due to a dry winter, and so many of the forests are dead.  This is not a local problem, however, as Jim Robbins discusses in the feature article below. What’s Killing the…

  • More water release from dams could bring new cottonwoods on the Upper Missouri River

    Ralph Maughan

    Cottonwood along the Upper Missouri in Montana all date before the dams. Some are two centuries old- More flow could bring back trees. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer

  • The need to manage national forests as carbon sinks

    Ralph Maughan

    Forest fire prevention? Thinning? Maximize size of individual tress? Leave it alone? It’s hard to say The article below is related to the one posted about “Sen. Udall sponsors bill to attack pine beetles.” It’s good to finally see some attention to the role of forests as carbon sinks, but it is not clear how…

  • Sen. Udall sponsors bill to attack pine beetles

    Ralph Maughan

    Colorado Democrat Udall says his bill will combat a great natural disaster- Yes there are millions of  acres of beetle killed pine trees in Colorado, but also Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon and Washington, New Mexico, British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon. Local politicians respond to local demands to do something, but rarely do…

  • Canada’s boreal forest top-rated carbon warehouse

    Ralph Maughan

    The Carbon the World Forgot — the boreal forest- “The boreal forest stores more carbon than any land-based ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report that says the Amazon is no match for Canada’s boggy bush.” It turns out that a major reason is all peat under the trees. Too many carbon sequestration…

  • Breathtaking and misleading fire story in the Missoulian

    Ralph Maughan

    “Red and dead” forests make extreme fires; but most bug-killed forests are not in this stage- Beetle-ravaged trees change wildfire behavior in western Montana. By Rob Chaney the Missoulian Beetles are changing the fire regime in Western Montana. Unfortunately, this story did not get to the key until the end – – “Dead trees will…

  • Clinton Roadless Rule Upheld… Again.

    Brian Ertz

    The 9th Circuit just upheld the Clinton Roadless Rule, and slapped down Bush’s amended rule which granted states and local interests undue influence to craft their own roadless rules, rules which ended up being weaker than the Clinton Rule.  Idaho and Colorado were the only states to ride Bush’s timber-train. Clinton-era Rule Protecting Forests Upheld…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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