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Source: News Channel 21 WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), announced the introduction Friday of legislation that would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. According to a news release from Merkley’s office, “This critical program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based […]
Source: All About Birds by Scott Weidensaul If there’s been a central, unquestioned tenet of bird conservation in the past quarter-century, it’s been the absolute importance of large, intact tracts of mature woodland. As populations of species such as Wood Thrush, which evolved to nest deep in the interior of mature woodlands, have continued to fall […]
Source: Courthouse News Service (CN) – Better forest management would not only prevent wildfires but could serve as a valuable water-conservation tool, according to a study published Tuesday. California could save billions of gallons annually by undertaking significant forest-thinning operations, according to scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation and the Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. […]
Source: Mercury News Environmentalists who have fought loggers for generations have a surprising new strategy to save California’s storied old-growth redwood forests: Sustainable Logging. Save the Redwoods League, a venerable San Francisco organization that has preserved more than 214,000 acres of redwood forest since it was founded in 1918, is embarking on a $5 million […]
Source: National Forest Foundation In 2018, National Forest Foundation is launching a campaign to plant 50 million trees on our National Forests. Natural disasters such as wildfire, insects and disease outbreaks are jeopardizing the very things that make our forests so wonderful, the majestic trees that grow from Maine to California. That’s why the National […]