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Investing in your (big backyard's) health: we heart our forests

King County Parks wrote 5 hours ago: Grand Ridge Among King County Parks’ 25,000 acres of land, approximately 17,000 acres are fore … more →

Tags: 130 Miles of Backcountry Trails, 180 Parks, Hiking, Mountain Biking, walking, forest, Grand Ridge, King County Parks

Scotchman Peaks and the Panhandle Collaborative

Terry Harris wrote 5 hours ago: At their excellent website, the Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness have an interesting and op … more →

Tags: Wilderness

New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests 1 comment

asladirt wrote 7 hours ago: Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Alein … more →

Tags: climate change, Environment, technology

ecosystems

Bitsy Griffin wrote 14 hours ago: … more →

Tags: ecosystem, Grasslands, marine ecosystems, Ecology, Ecologist

Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

Bob Payne wrote 1 day ago: Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and … more →

Tags: Alaska, Effectiveness, Environmental management, Forestry, Human Dimensions, LinkedIn, Policy, social institutions, USA

Prince Charles announces funding scheme to protect rainforests

Bob Payne wrote 1 day ago: Prince Charles announces funding scheme to protect rainforests … more →

Tags: Effectiveness, Environmental management, Forestry, Human Dimensions, Indigenous people, LinkedIn, Policy, rainforests, social institutions

What are termites?

askpari wrote 1 day ago: Termite Termites are small antlike insects that feed on wood.  Like ants, termites live in large col … more →

Tags: Large Colonies, Small Insect, tiny chips, Antlike Insect, Cellulose, Chips, Colonies, Dead Wood, insect

Sen Tester and His Logging Bill "Rack"-Up Major Endorsement

Matthew Koehler wrote 1 day ago: This just in: Senator Tester and his mandated logging bill have “racked” up a major and … more →

Tags: logging, timber industry, Wilderness, Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, Forest Service, public lands, Senator Jon Tester

Gambia: Casamance Foresters Commend Government

Bob Payne wrote 1 day ago: Gambian efforts in community forestry commended … more →

Tags: Africa, community based, Effectiveness, Forestry, Gambia, Human Dimensions, Indigenous people, LinkedIn, Policy

Every cloud has a silver lining

Chuck Baclagon wrote 1 day ago: When both you and the journalists who are accompanying you start getting arrested and deported it … more →

Tags: Indonesia, PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS, stop climate change, C2C, climate defenders camp, Copenhagen, kämpar, Kampar Peninsula, Riau

Report: Ten Solutions to Curb Forest Fire Costs, Currently $3 Billion Per Year

Matthew Koehler wrote 2 days ago: Note: The following press release was issued today from Headwaters Economics, a Montana-based indepe … more →

Tags: climate change, Forest Service, Headwaters Economics, wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

The Local Movement Comes to Forestry

Bob Payne wrote 3 days ago: The Local Movement Comes to Forestry … more →

Tags: community based, Effectiveness, Forestry, Human Dimensions, Indigenous people, LinkedIn, NGOs, Policy, social institutions

Elbe State Forest: Cutover forest lands to lush productive forests

Ear to the Ground wrote 3 days ago: In the early 1900s, forest harvesting practices left large tracts of eastern Pierce County barren. P … more →

Tags: Forest Health, DNR, Environment, forest, trust land

Amateur Biologists Join Global Bid to Catalog All the Species on the Planet - Join the Fun

Stephen wrote 3 days ago: By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Aug 25 (IPS) (all images courtesy of EOL) Save the living environ … more →

Tags: Biodiversity, Climate change/Global Warming, Ecology, News, Ocean, e. o. Wilson, Encyclopedia of Life, EOL, Smithsonian

More intimidation as Greenpeace activists, independent media and local community targeted

Chuck Baclagon wrote 3 days ago: The 11 foreign activists who have been deported over the last few days. Indonesian authorities have … more →

Tags: Indonesia, PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS, stop climate change, C2C, climate defenders camp, Copenhagen, kämpar, Kampar Peninsula, Riau

What happens when the good people do good - Part 3

Chuck Baclagon wrote 3 days ago: From Sarah Burton, now in Jakarta: I have learned that in campaigning things can change overnight, o … more →

Tags: Indonesia, PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS, stop climate change, Volunteers, C2C, climate defenders camp, Copenhagen, kämpar, Kampar Peninsula

Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil?4 comments

Joshua Kahn Russell wrote 3 days ago: Wanted to share this insightful (and quite funny and fun to read) rebuttal of Thomas Friedman’ … more →

Tags: Global Warming, Climate, Redd, Milton Friedman, trains trucks trees

Expensive nature tourism isn’t necessarily better for local economies

Bob Payne wrote 3 days ago: Expensive nature tourism isn’t necessarily better for local economies … more →

Tags: wildlife, Protected Areas, Coasts/Oceans, Economics, LinkedIn, Environmental management, Human Dimensions, social institutions, Effectiveness

Tell Shell

earthpal wrote 4 days ago: Delusional Shell oil company prides itself on its progressive Green initiatives and like other big e … more →

Tags: Africa, Biodiversity, Campaigns, Oil, People, Pollution, waste, water, wildlife


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