We like to think that much of the horrors of contemporary America is about Donald Trump. But again, Donald Trump is just a symptom. In fact, much of what he is doing has been the open goal of the Republican Party for over a quarter...
forests
Trumpism is devastating our forests for profit. When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest in late 2024,.
This is the grave of Ferdinand Silcox. Born in 1882 in Columbus, Georgia, Silcox grew up fairly well off. He went to the College of Charleston, graduating in 1903. Then.
I have talked about this occasionally over the years, but it looks like there's a solid chance the Forest Service is going to go ahead with the mass slaughter of barred owls to save the northern spotted owl in the Northwest. Understand a few things....
One of the great environmental disasters in the U.S. in the 20th century was the elimination of the chestnut tree from eastern hardwood forests. It was the most common tree.
One thing I've found interesting marrying into a gigantic Irish family and thus talking about Ireland with them and going to Ireland is the idea of the beauty of the.
Biden should go farther here and name the Tongass a National Monument. That's really the only permanent answer here. But if the nation is to protect its wild lands and move forward on the most natural carbon capture technology we have, protecting the Tongass is...
A student of mine told me about this situation in Atlanta before it led to violence and this is just crazy stuff. Basically, the Atlanta Police Department wants to log.
There's a little spot off one of Rhode Island's rural highways (we do have them) where there is an experimental plot to grow the American chestnut, grafted with bits of.
As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad was a plywood mill worker who felt his job was threatened by the owl. In...
"Look at the environmental sustainability!" The idea that we should turn biomass into energy never made any sense and I can't believe it ever moved beyond drunken back of the.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.