Landscape
of old growth forest at the Ellsworth Creek Preserve, Washington.
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.
A worldwide consumer boycott
of old growth forest products, or unsustainable tree farms, should be organized as soon as possible.
ASJE is involved with several other groups in a proposal to bring sustainable forestry practices and preservation
of old growth forest and habitat to the resulting disposition of PL properties.
In this poetic slideshow, the audience learns that 95 %
of the old growth forest has already been harvested and that the clear - cutting has left perhaps 75,000 miles of damaged stream and river.
5 — Fir Trail / Cedar and Fir Grove — The Fir trail is an easy extension to the Lake trail and has some magnificent groves
of old growth forest including giant Douglas Fir and Cedar trees.
A protected grove
of old growth forest.
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.
Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands
of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.
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.
Both rich in red cedar, spruce trees, and plenty of other vegetation, their lush canopy is the perfect example
of old growth forests.
Plainly logging or wood - chipping
of old growth forests must not happen; it is environmentally destructive.
It will also see the two groups working together to discourage the conversion
of old growth forests to pine plantations.
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.
Little sparks catch a dry patch
of dry leaves or twigs, then fallen trees and on to
old forest growth.
You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry
of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an
old -
growth forest.
The palm fruit oil we source is not linked to the destruction
of old growth rain
forests, the release
of greenhouse gases, the displacement
of native people, or the extinction
of orangutans or Sumatran tigers (which only live in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia).
A natural yeast starter (the lactobacilli is part
of the starter) is like an
old growth forest.
But by stopping the destruction
of mature (
old -
growth)
forests, we prevent a huge amount
of carbon from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting Earth - friendly planting and management
of young
forests, we absorb large amounts
of atmospheric carbon.
We are also actively involved in efforts to encourage the responsible management
of Massachusetts
forests and protection
of old growth.
Mass Audubon promotes conservation
of our
forest resources, including
old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture
of carbon from the atmosphere in
forest growth and soils.
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.
However, Canada's
old growth and intact
forests are logged at a rate
of five acres a minute, 24 hours a day.»
It protects most
of the wilderness and
old -
growth forest remaining in the Northeast.
A recent study reported that across the Pacific Northwest, tree mortality has quadrupled since the 1970s; 1.3 percent
of trees in
old -
growth forests die each year.
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.
«The data that are available show that, like the boreal and temperate
forests, tropical
old -
growth forests also continue to take up and sequester carbon,» says
forest scientist Eugenie Euskirchen
of the University
of Alaska Fairbanks, who was not involved in this research.
Biologist Sebastiaan Luyssaert
of the University
of Antwerp in Belgium and his colleagues surveyed all the existing measurements
of how much carbon is absorbed and released from
old -
growth forests (exclusively in temperate and boreal
forests due to a lack
of extensive data on tropical
forests).
Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction
of their
old -
growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.
Protecting
old -
growth temperate and subpolar
forests might prove a boon to the fight against global warming, also because
of the soils they currently shade.
All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands
of old -
growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent
of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes)
of carbon per year.
Louis and her colleagues measured the annual
growth of six species
of trees in an
old -
growth rain
forest in La Selva, Costa Rica, between 1984 and 2000.
According to some estimates, less than 10 percent
of forests worldwide can be considered
old growth, or undisturbed for more than a century.
Białowieża is the best - preserved remnant
of old -
growth forest that once spanned lowland Europe.
«Preserving mycodiversity is a huge argument for the preservation
of old -
growth forests,» he says.
He began amassing a genetic library
of hundreds
of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the
old -
growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing.
The newly described Melicope is apparently restricted to unique
old growth forest featuring a combination
of tree species that are only found on Kaua'i.
The Bia?owie?a
Forest, one of the last remaining tracts of old - growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose
Forest, one
of the last remaining tracts
of old -
growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose
forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full
of cavities
of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose from.
Timber harvests in Pará equate to almost half
of all native
forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest
old -
growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any country.
The aging
of forests in the region was also a significant force behind potential slowing accumulation rates as
growth rates are typically lower for
older forest.
«The Philippines is one
of the most heavily deforested countries in the tropics; only about seven percent
of the
old -
growth tropical
forest is left.
Join our local naturalist guide for a leisurely hike through Olympic National Park and discover its three distinct ecosystems: rugged glacier - capped mountains, wild Pacific coastline and the magnificent
old -
growth Hoh Rain
Forest, one
of the few temperate rainforests in the U.S.
Midway up the mountains, overgrown clear - cuts show up as yellow - green rectangles against the darker green
of old -
growth forest.
The report predicts that within 16 years, the
old growth forests of British Columbia will have disappeared.
As demand for wood pellets rises,
old growth forests are also put under pressure
of harvest.
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?
Dartmouth research shows China's anti-logging, conservation and ecotourism policies are accelerating the loss
of old -
growth forests in the Himalayas.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the northern spotted owl as threatened in 1990 because
of the declines in
old -
growth forest habitat throughout its range in Washington, Oregon and northern California.
For Millien, the
old -
growth forest of the Gault Nature Reserve on Mont Saint Hilaire in Quebec's Monteregie area similarly provided a kind
of insulated, open - air lab.
With its 1,000 hectares
of old -
growth forest, «Gault is unique» in southern Quebec, says Millien, who has also been director
of the reserve since last year.