Dominick DellaSala has written here before about the importance of considering forests when...
Back in November of 2013, President Obama issued an executive order on climate preparedness. Because executive orders circumvent Congress...
Back in November of 2013, President Obama issued an executive order on climate preparedness. Because executive orders circumvent Congress...
For over two decades, I have studied forests from Oregon's amazing coastal rainforests to the fire-adapted forests of the West. In dry forests, there are three issues that reoccur every fire season: (1) forests will burn regardless of what we do; (2)...
Rants from the Hill is cross-posted from High Country News
"Now we are translating this book into Korean and would like to spread H. Bruce Franklin's idea about over-fishing and ecology concerns to people in our area."
From the Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Fires can be restorative, unlike heavy logging
"Forests have a vital role to play in overcoming this challenge. Rainforests store vast amounts of carbon. That's true across the planet, and in America, too. Our Tongass National Forest, a temperate Alaskan rainforest comprises only 2% of America's...
Having jump-started my career as a conservation biologist riding the 1980s explosion of scientific and public interest in biodiversity, I have progressively witnessed how biophilia has given way to climate change concerns with the public, decision makers...
The concept of “no net loss” of wetlands, first officially endorsed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, continues to spread across the globe. The latest example is Taiwan’s national Wetland...