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Normal text size Very large text size As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked the taste). Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as horse loggers, using low-impact methods to selectively harvest cedar, Douglas fir and white pine. They took so few trees that Simard never noticed much of a difference. The forest seemed ageless and infinite, pillared with conifers, jewelled with raindrops and brimming with ...

From my standpoint like every issue my goal is instead of talking about it let's do something about it so in the last four years we put money in it with regard to flood mitigation and settled a decades old lawsuit in the everglades to deal with the water quality and historic funding for springs so my goal is continue to make progress. >> notice he didn't actually use the words climate change there either. we asked the governor's office to comment they said it's not true didn't specify what specifically but former dep attorney christopher bird who was on the record saying it is true is standing...

Reporting alleges that dep officials had been told not to use the words climate change and global warming in official reports and communications. and that the unwritten policy was communicated in 2011 after rick scott an established climate change denier came into office. christopher bird who worked as an attorney for general counsel from 2008 to 2013 said that he was warned not to use climate change and reeled terms during a 2011 staff meeting. "i did infer from this meeting that this was a new policy that these words were to be prohibited for use from official dep policymaking with our clien...