BRISTLECONE PINES
Feds hobbled by New Mexico disaster lag in climate resilience work
By Bruce Finley
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Deep in the dark woods southwest of Fairplay, federal logging crews tasked with tree thinning to protect homeowners against megafires and restore forest health must watch o...
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s for...
By Carley Petesch
The Associated Press
KEBEMER, SENEGAL » The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as climate change swept the sands s...
By Joe Neguse and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these f...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
SEQUOIA CREST, CALIF. » Ashtyn Perry was barely as tall as the shovel she stomped into barren ground where a wildfire last year ravaged the California mountain community of Sequoia Crest and destroyed dozens of its signature behemoth trees.
The 13-year...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
CUSTER CITY, S.D. » Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two harbingers of climate change — pine beetles and wildfi...
By Katie Langford
Daily Camera
The rate at which trees die in Colorado’s subalpine forests tripled over the past four decades and is linked to rising temperatures and less moisture, according to a study by University of Colorado Boulder researchers.
Researchers studied more than 5,000 tre...
WASHINGTON (June 24, 2021) – “The Growing Climate Solutions Act recognizes the critical role that our working lands play in storing carbon and helping slow the effects of climate change,” said Melinda Cep, vice president of natural solutions and working lands at the National Audubon S...
Inside Climate News, By Georgina Gustin
May 19, 2021
In the seven years since governments and corporations promised to stop deforestation, the clear cutting of critically important tropical forests has instead increased by more than 50 percent, a new report shows,...
Forest officials say clearing swaths of trees will help in taking energy out of wildfire By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
GOULD » Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetleinfested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-...
By Emily Guskin, Scott Clement and Joel Achenbach
Dec. 9, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. MST
Americans remain shaky on the details of climate science even as they have grown increasingly concerned about human activity warming the Earth, according to a national poll by The Washington Post a...
By Patrick Whittle The Associated Press
PORTLAND, MAINE»Beech trees are dominating the woodlands of the northeastern United States as the climate changes, and that could be bad news for the forests and people who work in them, according to a group of scientists.
The scientists say the move toward...
BRISTLECONE PINES
Feds hobbled by New Mexico disaster lag in climate resilience work
By Bruce Finley
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deep in the dark woods southwest of Fairplay, federal logging crews tasked with tree thinning to protect homeowners against megafires and restore forest health must watch o...
