Every once in a while every one of us should take the time to stop and look around. It’s so easy to get used to being surrounded by lush forests (even in the drought) and majestic volcanoes, that we sometimes forget what an important part those resources play in our lives.
If a tree falls in the forest, does burning it for energy help fight climate change? Or does it heat the planet even faster than burning fossil fuels?
On Thursday, California’s Wildlife Conservation Board voted unanimously to approve $9.09 million in grant funding for the Pacific Forest Trust to acquire a conservation easement on the first phase of the Mt. Shasta Headwaters project, encompassing twenty square miles of working forests that surround the historic mill town of McCloud.
In his legal work for the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Maine Appalachian Land Trust, David Kallin has “walked the walk” and then some. This summer he hiked the entire 2,185-mile Appalachian Trail with his wife, their two children and the family dog.
Confronting climate change will be substantially cheaper and easier if we conserve forests, and the key to that is expert knowledge and science, Undersecretary of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Bonnie told thousands of attendees at the recent 24th World Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations in Salt Lake City, Utah.
