"Harvesting timber from forests, for both environmental and commercial purposes, is a vital forest management tactic promoting biodiversity, forest regeneration and carbon sequestration, according to local and state experts." @maura_healey https://t.co/uoWO67RVcd
@Wanderingwhist1@standingtrees_@davabel@BostonGlobe If we are harvesting less on public lands than private, that suggests public land management is not focused on resource extraction, but, rather, the goals mentioned in the following: https://t.co/riAzjaPMUE
@standingtrees_@davabel@BostonGlobe According to this, the forest products from this project are a byproduct of achieving these other worthy goals.
https://t.co/riAzjaPMUE
@davabel@BostonGlobe The true disaster is the importation of wood from faraway countries with less environmental and worker regulations. This is a climate justice issue.
"human activities have largely dampened the influence of natural disturbances; restoring or emulating these disturbances is typically required for habitat restoration even when doing so equates to less carbon storage at the stand level."
https://t.co/z2zS2u9C7n
@davabel@BostonGlobe 100-year-old trees are not old growth. Many of the trees on public lands are plantations from the Civilian Conservation Corps era and are in decline. Clear-cuts are a silvicultural tool that allows enough light for the seed bank to regenerate in a diverse way.
Read the latest @forestservice feature story, entitled "Partnerships help private landowners tackle effects of climate change," and authored by our Director, Maria Janowiak: https://t.co/UJTwmEk5QO
In Pennsylvania, @forestservice / @usfs_nrs scientists & partners found tree-ring & fire-scar chronologies recovered from red pine trees extend back to 1370 & 1402; it is unique foundational ecological information on fire regimes of the Northeast.
https://t.co/XeRe958mIR
"Despite mounting calls to decolonize conservation & decades of critical engagement by Indigenous & non-Indigenous scholars, contemporary Western conservation discourse & practice continues to strip away non-European notions of reciprocity between humans & the world around us."
A global map of wilderness.
Someone didn't get the memo?
"wilderness is an inappropriate and dehumanizing construct"
https://t.co/8rUGNioBhd HT @theotheroad
February:
"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."
Please join my webinar tomorrow for the Forest Stewards Guild on managing forests for old-growth characteristics, using examples from the Pacific Northwest, Northeast, and Europe. Dec. 16 at 3:00 PM EST (12:00 PM PST or 21:00 CET) https://t.co/2wHu4DWw0s
What IS Nature? That’s not just a stoner thought…it’s the topic of the latest #podcast from @yourforestpdcst ft. the #philosophy of #nature with Dr. Martin Bunzl.
Challenge your assumptions!!! Learn! Grow!
Check out the episode.
https://t.co/zmrfOM4khI #forestproud