Sentences with phrase «old forest logging»

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.