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opinion: targets for protected lands could help slow climate and extinction crises, support local food production Conserving land to save our future: A goal to protect 30 percent of lands from development by 2030 Marina Schauffler, Maine Monitor Sat, 04/17/2021 - 12:00pm A view of Mount Katahdin from Abol Stream at the edge of Baxter State Park. (Photo by Wendy Almeida/Maine Monitor) Extinctions since 1500. Courtesy of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. In a recent working paper, “Delivering on Biden’s 2030 Conservation Commitme...

  OTTAWA -- The temperatures are warming up but spring skiers are still making their way to the cross-country trails. For a century, Gatineau Park has been a favourite ski destination.  And for more than 60 of those 100 years, the trails have been calling out to Malcolm Hunter. On days like this, Hunter has everything he needs: sun, snow and skis.  “I probably started skiing about age five. I grew up in the east end of Ottawa and there was the big Rockcliffe Park there. I think that’s where I first put on skis with my father,” the skier fondly recalls.

Maine Monitor cites Fernandez, Hunter in report about tax breaks for wood pellet industry The Maine Monitor reported that University of Maine professors Ivan Fernandez and Malcolm Hunter criticized federal tax credits that encourage the use of wood as an alternative home heating fuel. Hunter and more than 500 academic colleagues co-signed a letter noting that cutting trees to be burned for home heating undermines carbon sequestration. Fernandez, who did not sign the letter, supports the group’s stance, noting that expanding the wood burning industry makes it more difficult to reduce gree...