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Global Justice Ecology Project: GlobalJusticeEcology.org , Hinesburg, VTAs they grow trees naturally take in carbon from the atmosphere and store it in their tissue. This ability to “sequester” carbon is now being considered as a means to “offset” the C02 emissions from polluting industries to combat global warming. Industry claims the development of monoculture tree plantations will absorb

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Money News: - Bank of America and Redwood Forest Foundation Announce Nation's First Private Capital Forest Acquisition by Nonprofit - AOL Money & Finance: "This transaction will stop the forest's fragmentation while also allowing the property's coastal redwood trees to grow and be managed as a working sustainable forest. The foundation will purchase the acreage from Hawthorne Timber Company

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Schwarzenegger to defend North Coast redwoods Associated Press SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration pledged to fight any attempt to ease protections for old coastal redwoods that could be threatened by a timber company's bankruptcy filing. Pacific Lumber Co., a subsidiary of Houston-based Maxxam Corp., sought bankruptcy protection in Texas earlier this month, saying it could

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By Jane Braxton Little - Bee CorrespondentPublished 12:00 am PDT Saturday, April 7, 2007Story appeared in METRO section, Page B3Print | E-Mail | Comments (0)SUSANVILLE -- Officials in three Northern California counties have postponed action on requests from Sierra Pacific Industries to have nearly 20,000 acres of forests rezoned to designations that eventually could allow residential development.

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December 1, 2006 The Sawfish has been around for a couple years now, but we took notice after spotting it at Greenbuild two weeks ago. The timber provided by this robotic logger received accolades as one of Building Green's Top 10 Green Building Products, which were announced during the conference. The Sawfish is a remotely operated lumberjack vehicle, developed to harvest timber from

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Published: December 6, 2006By MIKE MORRISThe Union DemocratUp to 40 million board-feet of logs ultimately bound for Sierra Pacific Industries' Standard sawmill remains about 90 miles away in the Eldorado National Forest.Two environmental groups earlier this year successfully halted shipment of the timber from fire-damaged portions of the Eldorado forest to the Tuolumne County mill.Over the summer

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Progress towards sustainable forest managementFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2005FRA 2005 - Main ReportThe total forest area in 2005 is just under 4 billion hectares, corresponding to an average of 0.62 ha per capita. But the area of forest is unevenly distributed. For example, 64 countries with a combined population of 2 billion have less than 0.1 ha of forest per

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Environment | Seeing the wood | Economist.comSeeing the woodNov 16th 2006From The Economist print editionA new way of counting trees finds more of them than was thoughtTHE clearing of forests for agriculture or logging is progressing at a worrisome rate around the world. But that is not the whole story. A new study shows that, in richer countries at least, many more trees are springing up than

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Genetically modified arboriculture | Down in the forest, something stirs | Economist.com: "Scientists from around the world announced that they had deciphered yet another genome. By and large, the world shrugged and ignored them. The organism in question was neither cuddly and furry, nor edible, nor dangerous, so no one cared. It was, in fact, the black cottonwood, a species of poplar tree, and

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The moral hazard of saving trees“THE soybean frontier is approaching,” warns Virgilio Viana, the secretary of the environment of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. He is predicting an imminent surge in deforestation in the vast and relatively pristine heart of the Amazonian rainforest. First come roads, then illegal loggers, then pioneering homesteaders, and, finally, full-scale land clearance for

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Landscapes and the ecosystems that compose them “age” through time. The process of forest aging called “succession” transforms the composition of forested ecosystems as biotic communities respond to and modify their environment. Succession is an important topic in landscape ecology because of its significant effects on landscape diversity and the subsequent biological diversity and viability of

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Environment - Restoration lags in charred forests - sacbee.comReforestation -- the planting and natural regeneration of trees -- is the most critical part of forest management. But across the West, vast parcels of Forest Service land scorched by increasingly catastrophic wildfires have not been replanted. The consequences may linger for centuries.Imagine a Sierra Nevada that yields not gin-clear

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Retired Forest Planner Blasts Secret Forest Service Project In an open letter to "fellow citizens who enjoy recreating on public land with our families" making the rounds in cyberspace, Artley sharply criticizes the Recreation Site Facility Master Planning (RSFMP) project currently underway within the FS. His criticism follows vocal opposition to the project from green groups like Wild Wilderness

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Logging Proponent's Credentials Questioned - Los Angeles TimesIn the perennial battle over how the West's vast acreage of federal forests should be managed, science is a favorite weapon. And on the pro-logging side no academic has been as visible as Thomas M. Bonnicksen, particularly in California. The Texas A&M emeritus professor of forest science has testified before Congress 13 times,

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We are sending you this letter as a concerned group of forest scientists and/or fire resource managers at major research universities. We feel compelled to write to you in response to the many letters, opinion articles, and commentaries that Dr. Thomas Bonnicksen has been sending to newspapers across the United States. Most of us have served on federal and state committees reviewing the fire

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Residents along upper Highway 4 are questioning the safety of logging trucks that regularly run up and down the hill, and claim some of the drivers are purposely dodging the weigh scales in Murphys.Read Story

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On June 13. 2006, CDF reopened public comment for 10 days after Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) added a lengthy section to their THP regarding herbicide use and their scope of assessment of impacts to animals. "Windmill" Davis Creek THP 1-03-232 HUM

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California Resources Agency - Proposition 50 - Proposition 50 Sierra Nevada Cascade Conservation Grants Program

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The RecordMICHELLE MACHADORecord Staff WriterMonday, Sep 25, 2006WEST POINT - For a few weeks each fall, Robert Beauchamp trades working on wood for climbing the woods to collect tree cones for government agencies and private industry.The Davis furniture maker is barely discernible among branches near the top of an 80-foot incense cedar, heavy with rust-colored cones that hold seeds needed for

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Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Timber Company Appeals Forest Protection Saturday September 23, 2006 4:46 AM AP Photo ORJB902By JEFF BARNARDAssociated Press WriterGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002

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See information and Sierra Club's perspective.Sierra Club's CaseAttorney General's Case

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California Courts - Appellate Court Case Information - Case Summary: Case Summary Supreme Court Case: S123659 Court of Appeal Case(s): Sixth Appellate DistrictH023778 Case Caption: BIG CREEK LUMBER v. COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ Case Category: Review - Civil Appeal Start Date: 03/29/2004 Case Status: closed; remittitur issued Issues: Petition for review after the Court of Appeal affirmed

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ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT AND THE FOREST PRACTICES ACT,AN ANALYSIS OF CASE LAW, by Ariela FreedHistorically, private litigants and courts have played a significant role in the regulation of timber harvesting in California, often propelling major changes in the state's forestry and environmental laws. Perhaps at no point has this been more true than

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Robert Brothers, who according to In Context, an online quarterly on humane sustainable culture, has been exploring sustainable forestry and bioregionalism for a number of years, first in Idaho and now in southern Oregon provides references to groups practicing sustainable foresty in his article on Respectful Forestry. These groups include:Big Creek Lumber Company of Santa Cruz, Tosten Ranch

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Lloyd's of London has issued a report on the effects of warming on the insurance underwriting business. A few items of note, related to fire risks in urban/forest interface are provided below. For a full report, go to: Lloyd's 360 Risk Project With increasing development taking place at the forest/urban fringe, greater economic loss will result from forest fires in the future. Higher land and

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'You've got me wrong': A Conversation with Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth 8.7.06excerpts from an interview by High Country News on August 7, 2006 by Paul Larmer and Greg Hanscom. Here is what USFS Chief Bosworth has to say about forest health and fire. He is advocating thinning and prescribed burning in spring and fall. You may find the full article at American Lands.HCN: Yet the

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Forest Area: 32, 942,000 acresTimberland Area: 16,970,000 acresPercent Forest: 33%Volume, Growing Stock: 61,963, M cu ftVolume, Sawtimber (Scribner rule): 287,293 M board ft Net Growth of growing stock (Current Annual): 993 M cu ftRemovals of Growing Stock: (Average Annual) 628 M cu ftMortality of Growing Stock (Average Annual): 559 M cu ftTotal Land Area: 99,670,000 acresPacific Northwest Forest

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The following is the FSC language regarding plantations in the Pacific Region: 6.10. Forest conversion to plantations or non-forest land uses shall not occur, except in circumstances where conversion: a) entails a very limited portion of the forest management unit; and b) does not occur on high conservation value forest areas; and c) will enable clear, substantial, additional, secure, long term

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FSC has developed a set of Principles and Criteria for forest management that are applicable to all FSC-certified forests throughout the world. There are 10 Principles and 57 Criteria that address legal issues, indigenous rights, labor rights, multiple benefits, and environmental impacts surrounding forest management.PRINCIPLE #1: COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND FSC PRINCIPLESForest management shall

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Definitions of healthy forests are complex. The following definition is taken loosely from the Southwest Research Station of the USFS. A forest with trees in varied diameter classes with reduced continuity of surface and ladder fuels, a viable understory cover, wildlife habitat, and hydrological functions and aesthetically pleasing mix of pines, cedars, firs and oaks visible within and among

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