The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion people by 2050, and most of them will live in cities. But how will they be housed, and at what cost to the environment? Already, the space and resources needed to support such huge … [Continue reading]
Southern California: Solutions complex, elusive as region struggles to live with fire
Yellow fire hoses still snaked through Westmont College’s campus in Santa Barbara, California, more than a week after the Thomas fire nearly burned through the campus. The flames came within a few feet of Page Hall, one of the freshman dorms, and … [Continue reading]
Publisher’s Notebook: Managing forests for carbon storage, wood energy & lumber
Is using wood for energy renewable? Is it sustainable? Does it destroy forests or make them better managed? At Treesource, we are in the middle of a series of articles on wood energy. There are some strongly divergent perspectives on the carbon … [Continue reading]
Former Forest Service chiefs to Congress: Wildfire funding needs immediate fix
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone … [Continue reading]
Joint federal-tribal longleaf pine restoration project benefits birds, baskets
Before the United States was settled by Europeans, longleaf pine forests covered about 90 million acres of the Southeast. Post-settlement, most of these forests were logged for turpentine and lumber, and by 1975 they had been reduced to about 5 … [Continue reading]
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