Tag: logging
-
Opinion: The Logjam in Biden’s $50 Billion Dollar Wildfire Plan
Photo: Night operations on the Caldor Fire in September, 2021. Acacia England/USFS The administration’s plan to thin forests ignores an important way that wildfires spread and set houses aflame. On Maui, a solitary beachfront home, unscorched by the wildfire that devastated the town of Lahaina in August, stands amid the ashes of dozens of incinerated…
-
Diverse forests are stronger against drought
Photo: Aspens affected by drought. Credit: William Anderegg Resilient forests host trees with a diversity of water-use strategies Diversity is strength, even among forests. In a paper published in Nature, researchers led by University of Utah biologist William Anderegg report that forests with trees that employ a high diversity of traits related to water use…
-
Massive Medicine Bow logging plan sparks critics
Conservation and water interests are at odds over a plan to log, cut, burn and build roads across 562 square miles of the Medicine Bow National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service is seeking comments by Monday, Aug. 20 on its “landscape vegetation analysis” that would authorize timber and brush removal over a 15- to 20-year…
-
Officials dismissed benefits of national monuments
Photo: a look at Bears Ears monument, which encompasses 1.35 million acres of land in Utah. (The Wilderness Society) In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence that these public sites boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this month and retracted a…
-
What logging does to your water
There are a lot of issues with deforestation. However, for some nations around the world, logging jobs provide stable sources of income that might otherwise be unavailable. But now new research is taking a deeper look into the consequences of logging and asking, at what cost? The recent study, which was published in Environmental Research…
