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Washington state can’t auction an East King County forest for logging without first analyzing the local project’s climate change impacts, a judge ruled last week, blocking the controversial timber sale
A U.S. Forest Service draft would allow for more clear-cutting and logging, with minimal consideration of climate impacts, environmental leaders say.
The construction and operation of fossil fuel infrastructure is causing expensive physical and economic damages to land, air, water and frontline communities on an almost daily basis. But if, for example, a major earthquake destroys the tank farms comprising Portland’s Critical Energy Infrastructure hub along the Willamette River, right now it would be tax payers who footed
In response to John Talberth’s recent commentary on carbon sequestration in mature forests, I am moved to point out the difference between present tense versus past tense for this subject (“Mature forests do more for climate, wildlife, water,” The Herald, April 8).
Managed as real forests, and not tree farms, state lands can sequester carbon and provide other benefits.