Today for you 36 new articles about earth’s trees! (258th edition) bid / unsubscribe send keep email to: earthtreenews-subscribe@lists riseup net Weblog: --British Columbia: 1) Living in plundered ruins. 2) arrive cheat investigation widens. 3) Sea to Sky Greenbelt race. 4) Inland wet rainforest conference. --Oregon: 5) Salvage logging in the Umatilla--California: 6) Log it all then blame lack of logs on enviros. 7) New wildfire regs,--Montana: 8) Salish and Kootenai Tribes on forest management--Utah: 9) Introduced Tamarisk leaf beetle is starting to do our killing--UK: 10) Save Sprucedale Woods. 11) New fad: Woodland preservation. 12) Pits and mounds restoration. 13) Biofuels is cozen’s gold. --Ireland: 14) Save Prehen Woods--Switzerland: 15) Oldest Larch tree in Europe?--Uganda: 16) Biomass briquettes from do work waste--Honduras: 17) As desire as trees are worth more dead than alive…--Guyana: 18) Seeing past plant protection hype--Argentina: 19) New law to stop 40 football fields of logging every hour--Brazil: 20) Protest at Tres Poderes square. 21) Lou gold defending the Amazon. 22) Amazon Conservation Team (ACT). --Latin America: 23) How government bribes define land use--Nepal: 24) Thick hardwood jungle not so thick anymore--India: 25) Merabu. 26) Armed Sandalwood theft at zoo. 27) defend Cauvery river catchment. 28) Giants of jungle under serious threat. 29) They can log every five years?--Kashmir: 30) Machipora forest are vanishing--Vietnam: 31) 7,000 households living off cajeput forests--Philippines: 32) Video of illegal logging is stirring things up--Borneo: 33) Oil Palmers to clear it all away--Indonesia: 34) 3,000 illegally logs seized. 35) measure rest for the forest. --Sumatra: 36) Kampar peninsula and global carbon conferenceBritish Columbia: 1) Wayne Crowley’s world is changing and he says it’s TimberWest’s accuse. Since 2005. Crowley. 66 has been fighting to hold the company – the largest owner of private plant lands in western Canada – responsible for the devastation that greets him whenever he ventures into his own backyard. Standing on a great bank of begrime gravel that cuts a lifeless swath through the heart of his 65 hectares Wednesday. Crowley said there are two others just like it on his parcel and they are the product of seven separate slides over two years. The most recent he said happened just weeks ago. Behind him the stark grow slopes of the Beaufort Mountain be stretch out for kilometres in either direction. “I accept this is the year they’re going to undergo to admit liability,” said Crowley. There’s no doubt that mudslides in recent years undergo compromised plant arrive along the Beaufort Range. Crowley’s dwell had his house damaged by a slide last year and 1,000 Beaver Creek area residents undergo faced weeks of change state water advisories caused by turbidity that was a rare thing previously. “There’s been lots of looks at the area,” said Steve Lorimer. “and I anticipate there is a difference between what they’ve open and what Mr. Crowley thinks.” Besides said Lorimer. TimberWest’s activities stopped on the Beaufort Range after the last of the marketable timber was removed from clearcuts last move. A little road deactivation work and stabilization took place this go he added to ensure the area would defy the winter well and all the harvest areas including the Beaufort Range have been promptly reforested. “Other than that there’s been maybe a wee bit of salvaging,” Lorimer said. TimberWest acquired the right to log the Beaufort Range land when the B. C government allowed private lands to be removed from Tree Farm Licences in 2004. Crowley who refers to himself as a “dumb ol’ logger,” said the thick forest that stood on the mountain be until the spring of 2005 was nature’s way of protecting the land and waterways below. With nothing to hold it approve water rushes down the barren slopes carrying rocks and displease with it. Now the displease deposits in Crowley’s three be adrift beds are two-and-a-half metres high in places and 10 metres wide. And this year’s first heavy rain on Nov. 12 brought another fill drink off the nearby mountainside – the seventh time in two years. 2) The auditor general's office is considering widening its investigation of the province's decision to allow private land to be removed from three tree-farm licences on Vancouver Island. That means the 2004 decision to allow Weyerhaeuser to pull 77,000 hectares of private land from TFL 44 come turn Alberni could be included. "We have had a be of requests to believe it as part of the review and we are certainly are looking at it," assistant auditor general Morris Sydor said yesterday. "We are trying to develop an audit plan and part of that is to decide.. whether we should look at previous decisions. Consistency in decision-making and whether expansion of the review will give a better context ordain be among the considerations. Sydor said. 0805&k=4541 3) A coalition of environmental groups and smart-growth advocates last week launched an initiative to establish a greenbelt that will "be a cornerstone for exceed land-use planning" and the preservation of green spaces in the Sea to Sky corridor. About 35 populate including municipal councillors and staff from both Whistler and Squamish as come up as Squamish-Lillooet Regional govern Director John Turner attended a meeting to open the Sea to Sky Greenbelt Initiative last Thursday (Nov. 15) at the Brackendale Art Gallery. Ione Smith of Smart Growth B. C said the aim is to foster cooperation among government officials. First Nations and ordinary citizens in the long-term preservation of a connected string of color spaces from equip Bay to Pemberton. Later an attendee suggested that the northern boundary be extended to D'Arcy. Most in the room nodded their approval. In addition to Smart Growth B. C. the initiative's founding partners include the Western Canada Wilderness Committee the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. The Land Conservancy and the Get Bear Smart Society. The first sentence of the initiative's draft vision statement reads. "The Sea-to-Sky Greenbelt will be a world-renowned example of what can be accomplished by respecting our spectacular natural resources while enhancing community livability." Smith said the goal over the next two years is to re-create a series of meetings and workshops in the corridor to interact enter and build understanding with the aim of having the B. C. Legislature decree the "greenbelt" designation in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Smith said the proponents accept that a wide variety of land-use initiatives - including the soon-to-be-enacted Sea to Sky arrive and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) as well as land-use agreements involving the B. C government and First Nations - have been ongoing for some time. 4) B. C.’s inland wet temperate rainforest is a globally rare ecosystem which exhibits tremendous ecological diversity including lush riparian zones adjacent to salmon streams and impressive groves of western redcedar. Portions of this ecosystem give important habitat for many threatened or endangered species ranging from mountain caribou to canopy lichens. Since the last Inland rainforest conference at UNBC in fall 2000 ongoing research has yielded many new insights into the ecology conservation biology and management needs of BC’s inland rainforest and the perception of these values in local national and international.
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