Tag: Forestry - Page 5
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Artist Andy Goldsworthy's 'Wood Line' Follows Rich History of San Francisco's Presidio Forest
More than a century ago, the U.S. Army began planting thousands of trees in San Francisco's Presidio as part of a massive forestation project, leaving a legacy of lush
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Building a Backwoods Getaway, Open to Anyone Who Can Find It (Video)
Whether built ten stories tall or to fit in a Brooklyn loft, tree houses are great getaways, where you can hide among branches and leaves, above the rest of the world. They're usually private places, but in the woods of Oregon, a
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30 Fascinating Facts about the Boreal Forest
The Boreal forest is the world's largest land-based biome. Spreading over continents and covering many countries, the Boreal plays a significant role in the planet's biodiversity and even its climate. Here are 30
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World's Most Expensive Flip Flop Will Save The Rainforests
Sure, a pair of flip flops won't really save all rainforests, but dropping $18,000 to own them, with the proceeds going to protect 100,000 square feet of endangered rain forest land certainly can't hurt. The sandals are designed
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The 100+ State Parks Facing Closure - Is Your Favorite Park on the List? [Updated]
The United States is home to 6,624 state parks and has an annual attendance of over 700 million. Yet state parks are being
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Yosemite Trees To Be Chopped Down For Prettier Views
Yosemite is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and millions of people flock there every year to take in the sights. Well, they would if it weren't for the blasted trees. Those stupid bushy things are
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Untamed London is a Map of the Wild Side
This new map of London isn't your normal one. No streets or tourist sites, just the parks and open spaces where bits of Mother Nature can still be found.
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WWF Responds to Global Witness' "Pandering to the Loggers" Report
Global Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal logging
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Is WWF Selling Out Endangered Forests to Corporations?
The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade. But it's doing almost the
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The Bacon Uprising: How China's Top-Secret Strategic Pork Reserve Is Burning Down The Amazon
Fast Company has a very interesting article about how China's demand for cheap pork for the growing middle-class is having a devastating affect on Brazil's rainforest.
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Race for Land is Destroying the Guatemalan Rainforest
The Guardian has a must-read piece on how encroachment by farmers into Guatemala's rainforests has trebled in the last five years, bringing the much-needed canopy tumbling down. The article details what threats face the forest, and it comes less than a
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Find Your State on the National Register of Big Trees
Size matters. Big trees are signs that "progress" hasn't paved over everything. The latest, 2011 National Register of Big Trees
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Big Builders to Lead Turkish Environmental Ministries
Are the foxes watching the hen house in Turkey? That seems to be the feeling among many environmentalists and urban planners, who greeted with skepticism the announcement Wednesday of the new Turkish government cabinet following elections in mid-June.
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Fracking Wastewater Poisonous To Plants & Trees: US Forest Service
As if there aren't enough problems with fracking already: a U.S. Forest Service researcher has found that wastewater from fracking in a West Virginia forest wiped out ground plants, killed more than half the trees in
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Ecosia Search Engine Raises $330,000+ For Amazon Rainforest
Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is
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Nude Photo Shoot Focuses on Saving 1,500-Year-Old Oak Tree, Draws Police Attention (Video)
Jack Gescheidt, a California-based photographer, wanted to bring people's attention to a construction project happening on a large tract of land right next to Angel Oak, a tree believed to be over 1,500 years old and
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Liberia Barcodes Its Trees to Protect Rainforests
Barcoding seems to be the conservation concept of the day, and that goes for sparing trees from illegal logging. The latest country to use the technology is Liberia, and at least one expert thinks that barcoding trees
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Giant Redwoods Survived Excessive Logging; But Can They Survive Climate Change? (Video)
The giant redwoods of the California coast survived logging...barely. Only about 5% of the ancient redwoods made it through the logging of the old growth forests. Now, scientists are studying if they will make it through the
