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A Jan. 28 Recorder article detailed opposition to Gov. Maura Healey’s planned temporary moratorium on the roughly 20% of Massachusetts forest lands that are owned by the public.  The purpose of the moratorium is to review forest policy in the light of...

A Jan. 28 Recorder article detailed opposition to Gov. Maura Healey’s planned temporary moratorium on the roughly 20% of Massachusetts forest lands that are owned by the public.  The purpose of the moratorium is to review forest policy in the light of...

Nature art series comes to Great Falls Discovery Center TURNERS FALLS — The Great Falls Discovery Center’s free “Art Naturally” series invites the public for instruction on how to use poetry, prose and visual art to create an art piece inspired by the...

NORTHFIELD — Ten protesters with the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered at 5 a.m. Wednesday at the intake area of FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station to demand the facility be shut down...

Judging from a recent opinion piece, I believe that many people who make their livings designing logging projects are confused about the content of House Bills 912 and 1002. These bills would protect only state-owned forests, “common wealth” owned by...

Judging from Michael Mauri’s recent opinion piece (“The question is how to manage state forests,” Dec. 11), I believe that he, and perhaps others who make their livings designing logging projects, are confused about the content of House Bills 912 and...

Judging from Michael Mauri’s recent opinion piece, I believe that he, and perhaps others who make their livings designing logging projects, are confused about the content of House Bills 912 and 1002. These bills would protect only state-owned forests,...

The derogatory prejudice exemplified by Bart Bouricius’s Nov. 26 op-ed (“The destructive arrogance of habitat management”) discredits educated and experienced natural science professionals. He claims that these professionals are driven by the modern...

Modern humans evolved from their primate ancestors only in the last few hundred thousand years. The earliest forest ecosystems with true trees emerged hundreds of millions years ago and managed themselves. The notion that humans must “manage” nature...

Modern humans evolved from their primate ancestors only in the last few hundred thousand years. The earliest forest ecosystems with true trees emerged hundreds of millions years ago and managed themselves. The notion that humans must “manage” nature...