clearcutting

Comments for Tongass National Forest clearcutting are open, please take action

This is devastating not only for the forest and endangered species, think climate change. This is the last intact temperate forest in our country.  Dear Interested Party:   The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published the proposed Alaska Roadless Rule and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Electronic copies of the proposed rule and DEIS, …

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‘An Ecological Abomination’: Trump Moves to Open Largest Protected Forest in US to Logging Industry | Common Dreams News

“The environmental law non-profit Earthjustice said Tuesday it would challenge a Trump administration proposal to open up more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to the logging industry—threatening wildlife and indigenous populations as well as one of the world’s greatest carbon sinks.” ‘An Ecological Abomination’: Trump Moves to Open Largest Protected Forest in US …

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UPDATE on Tree Ordinance:More climate saving trees to be logged for more vineyards? This has to stop

Looks like we have three solid votes for updating Tree Ordinance. Thank you. Today at the Supes meeting Supervisors Zane, Gorin, and Hopkins said a couple of times each…it needs to be on the work plan! Solid support.  We submitted 480 signatures with your help. You all did it. Thank you to those who signed …

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SOURED ON GRAPES, locals speak out on impacts

With 31,000 trees being scheduled for clear cutting in Napa alone, locals ask when does the insanity and greed stop? http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/letters-to-the-editor-june-14-2016/Content?oid=2966561 Soured on Grapes Great article (“Of Water and Wine,” June 15). Thank you for writing it and for publishing it in the Bohemian. I live on a hillside in the Napa Valley about a mile …

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