Biden and the Forest Service's plan to save old-growth forests is weirdly controversial
To save old trees, Biden wants to restrict commercial logging on federal land. Could that make wildfires worse?
Source: vox.com
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As the Biden administration takes steps to protect old-growth forests, advocates say it's not enough while industry say it goes too far
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission....
United States Tongass National Forest Cedar Grove Kootenai National Forest Olympic National Park Blaine Miller Mcfeeley
Source: inlander.com
Biden Administration Takes Historic Step to Protect Old-Growth Forest
Environmental advocates say action is still needed to protect “mature” trees, while industry views the move as hindering timber harvests that provide wildfire protection.
Source: insideclimatenews.org
$6.5 million scramble to stabilize slopes in Boulder County
Proposed legislation would deploy tens of thousands of workers to thin western forests before wildfires - a technique familiar to Boulder County land managers.
Lake Of The Pines United States Boulder County Colorado Springs Colorado State University Tony Cheng
Source: 9news.com
Colorado looks to logging to help re-balance forests
Colorado looks to logging to help re-balance forests By BRUCE FINLEYDecember 13, 2020 GMT GOULD, Colo. (AP) — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-of-balance forests. This for-profit mechanized tree-cutting, concentrated between the blackened Cameron Peak and East Troublesome burn scars, has been clearing 3,000 acres a year. And state foresters propose to clear more....
Source: apnews.com