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Category Archives: Logging
Utah house takes up climate change and wildfires
A proposed bill would provide for better forest management — i.e., thinning or limited logging. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Logging
Don’t disturb the critters: Forests to be regulated for noise?
Good-bye logging, roads and other forest activity. Continue reading
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Can forest conservation and logging be reconciled?
Got it bass-ackwards, again. The only real question is whether logging can tolerate conservation and whether there is a role for conservation at all. Continue reading
11 Incredible Charts On Pennsylvania’s Booming Shale Energy Industry
The shale industry remains phenomenally controversial. Not a week goes by without a study proving or disproving whether hydraulic fracking of the sedimentary rock poses dangers to area residents — and then is immediately contested by the opposing side. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Economics, Fracking, Logging
Bryan Walsh: The Battle for the Amazon Heats Up Again
“The Amazon rainforest is the most important patch of land on the planet.“
Probably most of the planet would disagree with that statement.
“The trees have been called the lungs of the Earth“
True enough. Lungs take oxygen from the atmosphere and release carbon dioxide into it. Tree do likewise nocturnally.
“ and that’s far more than just a metaphor: they absorb more than 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, return oxygen in exchange and help regulate the climate of the Western Hemisphere in the process.“
Diurnally, perhaps but that is insignificant compared with oceanic exchange and savannah grasslands, come to think of it. This is typical bunny-hugger twaddle of no consequence. Ironically it was probably printed on paper made from rainforest fiber (no reason it shouldn’t be either, except that it is meaningless emotional enviro-pap). Continue reading
Greenpeace says KFC boxes destroy Indonesia forests
Sigh… a rational person would say “KFC buys product to help Indonesia develop and reduce third world poverty” but Greenpeace are rabidly misanthropic Continue reading
Quebec’s Front-Line Forests
In April, the government of Premier Jean Charest introduced a bill in the Quebec National Assembly that seeks to protect nearly 150 million acres — half of northern Quebec, an area the size of France — from industrial development, including logging, mining and petroleum exploration. Continue reading
Reforest the planet? We’ve got an app for it: Video Game Character Aims to End Climate Change Through the Power of Playsourcing
More Climate models?
Video Game Character Aims to End Climate Change Through the Power of Playsourcing XEOPlay(TM) Announces the Launch of Tilt World(TM) at DEMO Spring 2012; Tilt World(TM) Now Available in the Apple App Store
Press Release: XEOPlay – Wed, Apr 18, 2012
In Tilt World, Flip, the determined tadpole, sets out to conquer climate change by planting trees in the real world by harnessing the power of players (playsourcing) and a partnership with WeForest.org.
World Bank: Illegal logging a ‘global epidemic’
“Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers around the globe.” Continue reading
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Failing to utilize forest resource costs extra, for “ecosystem services”
If they logged the damned forest there wouldn’t be a need to thin it and burn it but no, they have to lock away a resource and charge extra to do so Continue reading
Obama uses spotted owl to block more logging
“We have been lied to about the Spotted Owl for the past 40 yrs…” Continue reading
Posted in Endang. Species, Logging
Obama 2013 budget for international climate welfare
Promoting “forest governance” and reducing the toll from “extreme weather.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Logging
More of the harm done by anti carbon hysteria
These guys don’t even know why we should reduce forest fuel loads and/or harvest resources Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Logging
WSJ: More Ninth Circuit Mayhem
A ruling by the whacky Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals would allow enviros to shut down logging by requiring road stormwater run-off to be managed by logging-stopping permitting rather than logging-enabling “best practices.” Continue reading
Posted in Logging
Strassel: Stringing Up Gibson Guitar
Aren’t trees the ultimate renewable resource? Continue reading
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