Podcasts about clearcutting

 This week we delve into the fascinating world of bee communities in disturbed forests with Dr. Graham Frank, a recent PhD graduate from Oregon State University.  Dr. Frank shares key insights about how bee communities are influenced by different types of disturbances, and what this means for forest management. Frank, G.S., Rivers, J.W., Verschuyl, J., Best, L.R., Betts, M.G., Kroll, A.J., Swanson, M.E. and Krawchuk, M.A., 2025. Comparison of Early Seral Forest Bee Communities Following Clearcutting or Wildfire Depends on Stand Age and Nesting Guild. Journal of Forestry, pp.1-45. Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44392-025-00016-1

On this day in 1977, the Green Belt Movement began with the planting of seven trees at Kamukunji Park in Nairobi, Kenya.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mainstreet's Spinbusters Chris Lydon, Barbara Emodi and Michelle Coffin look at Nova Scotia's clearcutting promises from the past decade. How much of it is spin?

Local advocacy group Citizens Against Clearcutting has been fighting to stop the province's clear cutting plans near Port Blandford for years now. Their latest move? Pairing up with an environmental law charity, Eco-Justice, to seek a judicial review of the government's plans. The group says they had no choice but to take legal action because the government refuses to listen to their concerns. We spoke to Carol Warren, a spokesperson for the group.

He's camped out in front of City Hall to protest a lack of protection for the province's forests. He's held a hunger strike in front of Province House over what he calls "ecocide". And now, Jacob Fillmore has a bicycle lock around his neck, attached to a piece of forestry equipment in Dartmouth. The 26-year old activist is in Eisner Cove, trying to prevent clear cutting of an forest that supporters say needs to be protected. Fillmore says he's there to make a difference, and he's there to send a message.

On episode 57 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg warns about the biggest threat we've seen in decades to the carbon-storing forests of Colorado--and the entire western U.S.--from phony "wildfire fuel reduction" logging, recaps Eco-Integrity Alliance's ongoing campaign to stop it and route the money instead to making homes "Firewise," and lets you know how you can help today!

We meet Dale Prest, the CEO of Growing Forests, an ecological forestry company on the mainland that's using the community investment development model to buy and manage forests destined for clear cutting.

Three decades ago, the Shawnee National Forest was the focus of fierce battles over commercial logging on public lands. A new documentary by filmmaker Cade Bursell revisits that history and calls attention to new efforts to preserve the forest. Bursell discusses the film alongside longtime environmental activist John Wallace.

Thousands homeless.. after tornado kills dozens… The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell .. east side residents say the city violated a court order to begin clearcutting trees…. and the navy poisons its own in Hawaii

Presidential candidate Bob Dole is dead at 98.. violent clashes in. Paris and far-right and progressives clash.. fugitive parents in the Oxford school shooting are caught.. did anyone help… and a blow for opponents of a plant to clear cut 1000 trees on the Lower East Side

Is clearcutting of forests for logging a public nuisance or a public benefit?

Clearcutting of woodlots in Chatham-Kent is on hold as the municipality considers ways to improve tree coverage locally, Chatham-Kent won't be sending a letter to the province pushing for an end to lockdowns in certain parts of Ontario, and no word on charges or injuries yet after a crash that closed a section of the Highway 401 in Chatham-Kent last night.

A Nova Scotia community group has used lands and forestry data to map out how much of the provinces forestland has been cut over the past 4 decades. They have concluded that if we keep going at current rates, we will have very little natural Acadian forest left to cut.

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HMM's Mark Dunlea speaks with Grace Nichols of Save the Pinebush. They talk about recent clearcutting, which allegedly had not yet passed environmental review, in the Pinebush. Crossgates Mall is attempting to clear the area to put in a Costco, as well as additional development including a gas station, townhouses, and parking spaces.

*Saturday Extra* There was a recent victory in the pro-wilderness world – a plan by the Bureau of Land Management to clearcut more than 30,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forest and sagebrush stands within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was overturned by a federal appeals board. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, along with the Western Watersheds Project, the Wilderness Society, and the Grand Canyon Trust brought the appeal. On the extended newscast, SUWA wildlands attorney Kya Marienfeld speaks about this victory, the history of ripping out pinyon-juniper forest, and what placing more attention on these issues could mean for the future.

In Vancouver and Victoria, the watersheds are protected from logging to ensure good water quality for city residents. But the people living in the rest of the province aren’t so lucky. Small communities around the province have discovered that timber companies are allowed to clearcut in their watersheds. Glade has been fighting logging plans by Kalesnikoff Lumber Company and Atco Wood Products that they say threatens their water supply. We speak with Heather McSwan of the Glade Watershed Protection Society.

In Vancouver and Victoria, the watersheds are protected from logging to ensure good water quality for city residents. But the people living in the rest of the province aren’t so lucky. Small communities around the province have discovered that timber companies are allowed to clearcut in their watersheds. Glade has been fighting logging plans by Kalesnikoff Lumber Company and Atco Wood Products that they say threatens their water supply. We speak with Heather McSwan of the Glade Watershed Protection Society.

Since 2015, forest fires have burned more than 33 million acres in the US - an area larger than Louisiana. So why are we seeing so many fires? And why are there billions of dead trees across the western United States and Canada? The guys tackle those questions and more in this episode. Topics include the Forest Reserve Act, Forest Service Organic Act, Gifford Pinchot's vision, clear-cutting, pine beetles, drought, NEPA, Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act, National Forest Management Act, the future of forest management- and so much more. 

Meet George Wuerthner, a prolific author, gifted photographer, and expert in natural history and Wilderness. He has logged countless miles on foot, canoe and skis to explore wildlands that support our wildlife, including grizzlies. George has several advanced degrees in field sciences, and, in the tradition of Wilderness champions such as Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall, he has become one of the greatest living authorities of public lands and Wilderness. George has written more than 30 books –guides to Wilderness and natural history, as well as gorgeous yet terrifying coffee table books such as Clearcutting and Thrillcraft.

The scene looks like one painted with the words of Tolkien: moss covered rocks, a babbling brook, various low shrubs, and monstrous trees fill the landscape. The photo I’m describing is this week’s episode art, and was taken by the guest you’ll hear from today. It’s truly beautiful, and exactly what I imagined when we started talking about the Acadian forests of Nova Scotia. It’s also gone. Full of biodiversity, hundreds of years old, and filling an ecological role that’s difficult to fully comprehend, the Acadian forests of Atlantic Canada are under attack. Clearcutting, ineffective replanting, backroom politics, and disinformation are creating a hazardous situation that, according to our guest Cliff Seruntine, is hitting the crisis point. A member of Stop Spraying and Clearcutting Nova Scotia, Cliff says there is less than 1% of the original Acadian Forest left – and it is being cut 20 times faster than it can rejuvenate itself. Cliff joined Defender Radio to discuss the unique ecosystems found in the Acadian Forests, what’s driving the clear cutting, and what ecological and economic solutions exist to replace this dangerous industry.

Life after the fire and the seesawy balance game of panic disorder.