Sentences with phrase «if old growth forests»

«Even if old growth forests are not mitigating carbon emissions, regrowing forests and restored forests will nonetheless be very effective in increasing carbon sequestration in tropical regions.»

If an old growth forest burns down plants pre-adapted to the new conditions spring up before the ashes are cold.

Not exact matches

Thus if one wants theological license to increase radioactivity without constraint, to consent to the bulldozer mentality of developers, or to encourage unbridled harvest of old growth forests, historically there has been no better scriptural source than Genesis 1 - 2.

Merely being in the presence of such iconic (if not controversial) species as tiny Marbled Murrelets and reclusive Spotted Owls — both pawns in the long - standing battle to conserve old - growth forests in the Northwest — was in itself a humbling experience.

Under changing conditions, if the leaves can't change too, will giant sequoia groves and other old - growth conifer forests be at heightened risk of degradation?

If that is a little intense for you, take a day and visit Elk Falls Provincial Park with its old growth forest, waterfalls and the newly built suspension bridge.

A few minutes hike from the lodge is a beautiful old growth patch of Brazil Nut forest that has been harvested for decades (if not centuries) where the precarious remains of a camp used two months a year by Brazil Nut gatherers can still be experienced.

If carbon continued to accumulate in old growth forests, as some like to pretend, then where is the carbon that has been accumulating for the last few thousand years?

Pick up a handful of old - growth forest soil and you are holding 26 miles of threadlike fungal mycelia, if it could be stretched it out in a straight line.

And if you simply grew stuff to produce biochar, the carbon economics would be turned on their head, just as they are if old - growth forest is stripped for biofuel plantations.

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.

In fact, if we continue on our current path of high heat - trapping emissions, the region is projected to see forest fires during June and July at two to three times its current rate.2, 6 Some 1 billion metric tons of organic matter and older - growth trees could burn7, 15 — accelerating the release of stored carbon and creating a dangerous global warming amplification or feedback loop.5, 14

Conversely, if the offset mechanism of choice were old - growth forests — an important target of conservation efforts [33], but for which respiration rates often equal sequestration — the net balance of carbon sequestration from forests is zero or close to it.

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.