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The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads
What makes this clearing extraordinary isn ... In the early 2000s, the Forest Service brought heavy machinery to this old ...
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Forest Service Clearcutting Plan Next to Yellowstone National Park Threatens Grizzlies, Old Growth
It will bulldoze through old-growth forest and remove thousands of acres of mature pine trees. The plan is moving forward despite its incongruence with President Biden’s pledge to protect old-growth ...
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Environmentalists push for stronger old-growth protections in Northwest Forest Plan
Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public ...
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Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024
Both Sumatra and Kalimantan have long been the epicenter of industrial-scale forest clearing for activities such as oil palm plantations, pulpwood estates, and coal mines. Until 2013, Sumatra was ...
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U.S. Forest Service Plan Guts Protections, Allows Clearcut Logging of Old-growth Trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service announced a final plan today to eliminate roadless-rule protections in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate ...