North Olympic Peninsula residents addressing human-made climate disruption. Washington State, U.S.A.
Image of Doc Holliday Timber Sale by Scott F McGee / forest2sea.com Logging trees next to an Olympic Coast campground and cutting a century-old forest above the Strait of Juan de Fuca shows why Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner Dave Upthegrove was right to pause new logging contracts. Unfortunately, his decision came too late to save …
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Google Earth Image of the “checkerboard” pattern of alternating private lands (with clearcuts) and BLM lands (US federal land; remaining green areas between clearcuts) in southern Oregon. Onshore logging does nothing to solve domestic forest losses or global deforestation. "Rapid loss of the natural world is in no one’s best interest. Increasing domestic logging is …
Clayton Cotterell for The New York Times I asked the Forest Service to guarantee that the saplings planted using my money would not grow up only to be logged later by the timber companies. The agency declined. But overcome, I suppose, by pie-in-the-sky do-gooderism, I pledged the money anyway. Over the next few years, over …
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