Category Archives: forestry

Forest fire research questions wisdom of precribed burns

Posted on September 22, 2012 | 1 comment

One major case study in this realm is the prescribed burn of earlier this century near the Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory that got out of control. Lay people have got to understand, though, that Wild Nature, in many cases, is dependent on natural fires, like those touched off by lightning strikes.

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Posted in fire, forest fires, forest fragmentation, forestry, resource extraction, tree pests, trees, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, weather, wild nature, wildfire, wildfires

Tagged BLM, Fish and Wildlife Service, forest fires, Forest Service, prescribed burns, wildfire

Forest fire research questions use of prescribed blazes

Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

The research, examined in this article, says big, natural forest fires actually promote biodiversity.

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Posted in forest fires, forest issues, forest-interior songbirds, forestry, forests, U.S. Forest Service

Tagged dendrochronology, prescribed burns, tree-ring studies, U.S Forest Service, wildfire

Goodbye to the mountain forests of the West?

Posted on June 26, 2012 | Leave a comment

That would appear to be the new reality, as this piece from the New York Times states in good fashion. It’s no longer a matter of attempting to save and restore the status quo, it’s a matter of helping the land adapt to the climate humans are changing.

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Posted in climate change, forest fires, forest fragmentation, forest issues, forestry, forests, U.S. Forest Service

Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, forest fires, forests, global warming, U.S Forest Service

Global warming threatens pine forests, forcing rethinking of mitigation strategy

Posted on May 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Maybe our planet has already past the tipping point. Given the headlines of recent days, particularly this one, it’s hard to argue otherwise. Let me know what you think. Scientists know that global warming will reshape pine forests. What they don’t yet understand is which trees are best poised to survive under these changed conditions and how they can help them adapt in the decades to come.

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Posted in climate change, forest fires, forest fragmentation, forest issues, Forest Preserve, forest-interior songbirds, forestry, forests, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, pine trees

Tagged jack pine, lodgepole pine, pine forests, Ponderosa pine, red pine, Virginia pine, white pine

Tracing the money, and the masterminds, of illegal logging

Posted on April 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

That’s the headline over this piece from today’s NY Times. Illegal downing of trees is a rarity in the U.S., but not in some overseas locations where the demise of trees, indeed whole forests, where it has major effects.

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Posted in forest fragmentation, forest issues, forestry, forests, land ethic, logging

Tagged cutting, illegal logging, logging, rainforests, timbering

Many forests feeling the heat from climate change

Posted on March 31, 2012 | 3 comments

That’s the message of the U.S. Geological Survey report summarized in this USGS/NOAA release.

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Posted in climate change, ecology, ecosystem management, forest fires, forest fragmentation, forest issues, forestry, forests, global warming, U.S. Geological Survey

Tagged climate change, forests, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS

Bugs, fdiseases taking their toll in Washington State forests

Posted on November 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

I could find no reference in this article, though, to how the changing climate (warming trend) is affecting the situation. Too bad, because people really need to know the connection.

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Posted in forest fires, forest fragmentation, forest issues, forestry, forests, old-growth, old-growth forest

Tagged insects, pine beetles, tree diseases