Old forest logging, biofuel and other industrial plantations, urban sprawl, climate change, water diversion and countless other methodical diminishments of intact natural ecosystems are to blame.
As well as wines, the region is known for its surf beaches on the Indian Ocean, mountain biking along
old forest logging tracks, and kayaking up the river itself.
Not exact matches
I was recently in Oregon where feelings are running very high about restrictions on
logging for the sake of preserving
old - growth
forests.
However, Canada's
old growth and intact
forests are
logged at a rate of five acres a minute, 24 hours a day.»
Past
logging has razed more than a third of Białowieża
Forest, but much
old - growth — defined as a stand of trees in which at least 10 % are
older than 100 years — survives on land managed by State
Forests.
Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their
old - growth
forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against
logging.
Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from
old - growth tropical
forests is selectively
logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale.
In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of
old growth
forest and reforested former
logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe
forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.
But such tedious field work has enabled researchers to show that
logging and roadbuilding can stress out the spotted owl, a threatened species that lives in
old - growth
forests in the Northwestern United States.
However, new
forests were primarily scrub and secondary
forests, which typically regenerate after
old - growth
logging but have much lower biodiversity value.
The sacred
forests have effectively protected
old - growth trees from clear - cutting for centuries despite major upheavals in the region's history, including the
logging era and the Cultural Revolution.
Denizens of bottomlands and
old forests from the Carolinas to east Texas, the birds dwindled in number as their habitat was
logged from the late 1800s through the 1930s.
This concern was used as a reason to restrict
logging activities in the
old growth
forests of Washington and Oregon — something which has benefitted the
logging industry in neighboring British Columbia, I note.
It lives in
old - growth
forests in California, Oregon and Washington, where it is threatened by
logging.
A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting
old forest to young
forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young
forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after
logging is very small, i.e.
old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.
Sound public policy would (a) protect
old forests, (b) grow young
forests into
older forests (aka, longer rotations), and (c) when
logging, retain significant residual trees both live and dead.
One of my favorite things to do is to hike through the
forest with my nose to the ground so I can smell all the new things, jump over roots and
logs, and crunch through
old leaves and sticks.
Those that want to remain on terra firma can explore the
forest floor along 100 miles of
old logger trails that were established back in the days of
logging mahogany trees.
Mt. Tam's deep canyon walls protected these redwoods from the
logging industry that decimated America's
old growth
forests in centuries past.
The lower
forest and the re-growth around the sanctuary head quarters (the
old logging camp) are good for birds.
As
logging encroached on
old growth
forests across the North Pacific coasts, the species declined severely.
This is some of the greatest intermediate mountain biking on Vancouver Island and is projected to get even better, as
Forest Renewal B.C. funds are being used to rehabilitate
old logging roads into recreational trails.
From the mountain lake with the Rocky Mountains rising dramatically behind to the
Old Growth
forest and
log lodges — this is the place for photos of your big day.
The
old logging tracks through the National Park provide a chance to travel through some very special, secluded
forest areas, home to black wallabies, coloured parrots, kookaburras and many more
forest inhabitants.
The
old logging tracks through the Cape Otway National Park, provide a chance to travel through some very special, secluded
forest areas, which are home to black wallabies, coloured parrots, kookaburras and many more
forest inhabitants.
The
old logging tracks through the National Park provide a chance to travel through some very special, secluded
forest areas, which are home to black wallabies, coloured parrots, kookaburras and many more
forest inhabitants.
Back in the day, there were an estimated 2 million acres of
old - growth
forest, but by the early 1900's, most of these
forests had been cut down by the
logging industry.
Living many years at the margin of
old logging, more recent
logging, a ridgeline overlooking an alluvial valley where a small city is growing and similar cities extend to the horizon in inland coastal range mountains in CA, I am reminded often of the coolness in the tall
forest contrasting to the heat generated on sunny days where
forests are discontinuous because of
logging or absent because of urban growth.
Logged into near oblivion to keep up with the demand for lumber, today, only 5 percent of the original
old - growth coast redwood
forest remains, fewer than 100,000 acres dotted along the coast.
A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting
old forest to young
forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young
forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after
logging is very small, i.e.
old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.
This is, after all, a common sense position: there is nothing radical about a halt to
old growth
forest logging, as these places are dwindling sources of biodiversity and carbon sequestration.
The problem is that the O&C lands in question are largely
old - growth, largely protected by the NW
Forest plan thus currenlly not being
logged.
The Philippines, for example, has banned
logging in most remaining
old - growth and virgin
forests largely because the country has become so vulnerable to flooding, erosion, and landslides.
REDD has the potential to help end primary and
old - growth
forest logging.
This is followed by proposals to
log the Tongass National
Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other
old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent»
old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).
Clearcut
logging of
old - growth
forests on the west coast left a global stain on the nation's reputation.
Plainly
logging or wood - chipping of
old growth
forests must not happen; it is environmentally destructive.
In the early 1990s the Clinton administration put a stop to
logging in huge swaths of
old growth
forest in the U.S. to protect a small, non-descript brown bird that was facing extinction: the northern spotted owl.
According to the Goldman prize website, nearly 99 percent of the Tarahumara region's
old - growth
forests have been exploited for various
logging and mining activities.
Loggers, mislead by industry, contended that they couldn't make a living if environmentalists and government regulators restricted their ability to
log old growth
forest.
Baldenegro witnessed his own father's assassination in 1986 for similar activist efforts but remained a staunch defender against
logging in his region's native,
old - growth
forests.
When we think of timber from lush, tropical
forests, it conjures up images of valuable
old - growth trees pillaged by
logging companies and illegal...
«The most effective way to enhance
forest carbon storage,» Professor Körner writes, «is to prevent
logging old - growth
forests and to extend the forested land area.
The focus must be upon ending first time industrial
logging of primary
forests, while providing local peoples alternative incomes based upon fully intact standing
old forests.
Though many
logging companies replant felled trees on a one - to - one basis, environmentalists believe these replacement
forests (which are often harvested once the trees reach a certain age) are not as effective at storing carbon dioxide as
old - growth
forests.
«One of the most upsetting things about this proposal is that the spotted - owl wars of the»90s had simmered down quite a bit, and a kind of balance had been reached regarding
logging and
old growth
forests,» says Kieran Suckling, policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Growing up in the
forest, my bicycle took me through
old logging roads and snowmobile trails in the off - season, zipping through mud holes and over tree roots, past swamps with grazing moose, always trying to outrace the mosquitoes.
The enviros counter that it is precisely the selling of scrap wood for paper products that makes
logging the
old - growth boreal
forest profitable for timber companies, and that there are recycled products out there that are perfectly acceptable to discerning noses and other body parts.
New photos released today reveal a massive stockpile of
old - growth
logs from the Boreal
forest destined to be made into Kleenex and toilet paper for tissue giant Kimberly - Clark.
This disconcerting policy is yet another disturbing reminder of the Bush administration's attitude towards national parks — as if opening 3 million acres to
logging in Alaska and seeking to approve a 700 percent increase in
logging in Oregon
old growth
forests wasn't enough.