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There is a guest editorial in The NY Times by Claire Cameron (Link through the paywall): We Thought We Were Saving the Planet but We Were Planting a Time Bomb Cameron, like many Canadians, once spent a summer working for the forestry industry...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 05:01 PM PDT
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Starting four years ago, the Forest Service started cutting trees for “fire mitigation” west of Colorado Springs. I call it pad for clear cutting and here are the pictures of what remains. The first picture shows the scale of the “slash piles” that are...
by tjlord
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on Sun Aug 15, 2021 at 11:34 AM PDT
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We are often our own worst enemy.
Environmentally, we’re an ongoing disaster, a slow motion train wreck we can’t seem to stop. We’re the only species that fouls its own nest. It comes back to bite us in our collective asses, too, although we never se
by Puddytat
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on Fri Mar 25, 2016 at 07:01 PM PDT
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In the 1970’s there was a report called “the Cooling World” (pdf) that warned of a possible Ice Age like period of
by Eric Nelson
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on Wed Dec 23, 2015 at 02:48 PM PST
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Deforestation: destruction of rain forest's natural protection
This scattered Diary is not really about Ebola. It's about destruction, and the party that shills for the corporations allowing them ...
by Eric Nelson
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on Sat Oct 18, 2014 at 01:30 AM PDT
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Yes, you read that correctly . . . clearcutting about 85,000 trees with NO replanting. Instead, to make matter worse, they will be applying thousands of gallons of herbicides (including Roundup) to ...
by foolrex
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on Fri May 17, 2013 at 03:43 PM PDT
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A couple weeks ago, I was up at my house in the Cascades, working on an article with an approaching deadline, the type of article that required a great deal of attention and no small measure of quiet.
by R H Sheldon
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on Sat Aug 04, 2012 at 09:00 AM PDT
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The Oregon governor's race will be decided in the Portland metropolitan area. If John Kitzhaber receives anything close to the level of support Democrats usually enjoy from Oregon's largest ...
by Laurence Lewis
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on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 06:46 AM PDT
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Yes, those poor defenseless Boy Scouts--the evil gays and athieists forced them to illegally clear-cut timber from many of their properties around the country, impact endangered species, and ...
by homogenius
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on Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 02:18 PM PST
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by EmilyD
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on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 06:50 PM PDT
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by benthos
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on Tue Aug 01, 2006 at 10:11 AM PDT
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