The stump ranchers: How #Merville lost its #trees. The #logging and #colonial settlement history of the #Comox Valley helps us understand why the coastal #DouglasFir #ecosystem is now #endangered.
https://thediscourse.ca/comox-valley/the-stump-ranchers-how-merville-lost-its-trees
I should make one of these log grabbers. Does look doable. Maybe from some of those old harrow parts I found, they look strong. Hopefully not too strong to drill though :)
PSA: The #Crisafulli #LNP government of #Queensland wants to expand native forest logging as part of it's anti #conservation pro #logging "Primary Industries Prosper 2050" blueprint.
*Not* protect or continue native logging. No. The plan is to *EXPAND* it.
It's been carefully shuffled out of sight, being slid out under cover of all the noise from the federal parties during the election.
There is a consultation period now open. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit your thoughts on this proposal, and encourage others to do so. Our survival depends on our native forests. Without them there is no future for our land, and by extension no future for us - just eroding soils, dead rivers, dessicated land and mass extinction.
Defend life. Defend the land we belong to. Defend the forests that sustain us.
https://dpi.engagementhub.com.au/primary-industries-blueprint
I hope this isn't what I fear it is. Newly cut logs, (a few branches with fresh greenery) - maybe ponderosa pine judging from bark color when I passed them up. The sign on the left says "Leaving Roosevelt National Forest" . This is on US 34 (in Colorado) heading East from Rocky Mountain National Park. #trees #forests #logging #environment #Colorado
Regarding the US Government emergency designation in early April ... to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects:
I compared the map of affected national forests:
https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/forest-health-fuels-emergency-lands.pdf
(see screenshot #1)
...with a map of national forests (and grasslands) in New Mexico:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Mexico_National_Forest_Map.gif
(see graphic #2)
The overwhelming majority of national forest acreage in New Mexico is affected. :-(
Some might say that spending an hour+ making my logs a bit prettier instead of working on the guts of my app or business is a waste of time.
They wouldn't say that if they knew how often I have to look at my logs
Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505 #openbsd #bpflogd #bpf #networking #logging #development #sysadmin #devops #security #platformengineering
[This is so messed up. The seemingly unlimited capacity of #Felon47 to destroy things of great value is incredible]
Allowing for overlap, Rollins has now designated a total of nearly 113 million acres of NFS land — which amounts to 59% of the total forest land — as an emergency situation, making them candidates for logging and other "emergency actions" to supposedly ensure public safety.
#Felon47 #Wildfires #Logging
https://people.com/trump-administration-opens-protected-forest-land-for-logging-11710807
Jennifer Skene: #Logging is quietly ravaging US #forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections: Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop it
#Environment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-logging-us-forests
So worth watching. Turns on its head the current 'fire management' nonsense we are fed about the benefits of burning. This is the essence in 15 mins.
#fire #trees #forest #biodiversity
#australia #logging #money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV5oHKJt1EQ
The wombat outcry :
An (illegal) selfie with wildlife
vs systematic wildlife destruction and wilful neglect
"The irony of our country’s leaders condemning the actions of a young tourist’s treatment of a wombat while shamelessly sanctioning their slaughter is impossible to overlook...Kangaroos, native birds, possums, black swans and emus are just a few of the many native animals that landholders are granted licences to kill under the ATCW list."
"Our leaders have a lot to answer for and must confront the uncomfortable truth of their own involvement in wildlife destruction. They can no longer ignore the role they play in enabling the harm of native animals while lecturing others on respect for wildlife."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/attacking-a-young-tourist-over-her-treatment-of-a-wombat-is-hypocritical-and-misses-the-point
#biodiversity #WildlifeCrime #Australia #culture #EPBCAct #ecocide #governance #roadkill #deforestation #logging #harm
Here is a great case-in-point of why increasing logging on federal land, particularly clear-cutting as Trump apparently wants, is a bad idea.
Trump signs executive order handing US public forests over to private logging industry.
This will be a disaster for endangered species, harm climate change, and damage local economies and health.
#logging
#old_growth_logging
#publicforests
#NationalForests
#DonaldTrump
#Executiveorder
#Trump
Trump is going to open all National Forests to logging. It's horrible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/trump-logging-national-forests.html
Trump has ordered 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so & raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in US.
#USPol #Environment #Logging #Ecology #Forests #Resist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order