Category Archives: logging

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

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Oregon timber plans in doubt after court says logging road runoff is pollution

Posted on August 18, 2010 | Leave a comment

Damn right it is. No rocket science is needed.  Read about the court’s ruling here.

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Posted in clean water, Clean Water Act, logging

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Here’s a slice of BS from the Dubya era

Posted on December 10, 2009 | Leave a comment

Anything to git the cut out. Read about it here.

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Posted in logging, multiple-use, timber, tree pests, trees, U.S. Forest Service

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Obama admin scraps logging plan in Ore. carbon sinks

Posted on July 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

A good piece here from the NY Times. Another Bush-era boondoggle shut down.

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Posted in carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon sink, climate change, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, logging, national forests, old-growth, Oregon

TNC says it’ll sell Adirondack land to pension fund

Posted on March 30, 2009 | 1 comment

dsc03144And the fund, notes this Press-Republican (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) article, is into “sustainable forestry.” Whatever that is.

There is a good reason why

New York’s Forest Preserve doesn’t allow logging.

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Posted in Adirondack Park, Adirondacks, Forest Preserve, forestry, logging, The Nature Conservancy

Wanna help the economy? Log our publically-owned forests, two senators say

Posted on January 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

Idaho’s U.S. senators support logging as part of stimulus package. That figures. Any natural-landscape destruction that can be hidden behind logging is OK, they figure. Check the Idao Statesman’s coverage, then weep for the trees that’ll be logged to make some politicians happy.

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Posted in economic stimulus plan, Idaho, logging, national forests

Wilderness not so good for wildlife diversity?

Posted on January 21, 2007 | 2 comments

That’s the conclusion of a forest products guy from Pennsylvania’s Forest County regarding the notion of more wilderness on the Allegheny National Forest.

Wait a second. Only 2 percent of the Allegheny is designated wilderness now. Most of the 500,000-acre national forest is a pin cushion of oil and gas well heads. And that’s good for wildlife? Read Doug Carlson’s comments in this article by Ben Moyer of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette then shake your head in wonderment. Carlson doesn’t really care about wildlife. He just wants more timbering opportunities.

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Posted in Allegheny National Forest, logging, wilderness, wildlife issues, wildlife management