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  • Pacific salmon run helps shape Canada’s ecosystems

    Brian Ertz

    Predators help disperse salmon, nutrient on streambanks This article describes the results of a study suggesting another “trophic cascade” mechanism by which predators and salmon interact, enriching the diversity of plant-life in the world’s largest old-growth temperate rainforest: Pacific salmon run helps shape Canada’s ecosystems – BBC News The annual migration sees salmon return to western Canada…

  • Climate Change Takes Toll on Lodgepole Pine

    Ralph Maughan

    The most abundant of all Western pine falls at astounding rate- Every Western pine from the Yukon to New Mexico is suffering high mortality from unusually severe attack by native insects, diseases and direct mortality from drought and heat. Lodgepole pine, which often grows in vast almost monocultural stands, is dying too.  Almost anyone who…

  • Massive Australian floods were no natural disaster

    Ralph Maughan

    It is land clearing for livestock- Despite some recognition today, just one tree is being planted in Queensland for every one hundred cleared to increase livestock grazing. Yes, it rained a lot for a long time, but cows on huge tracts of “cleared” land made the disaster. Video. http://suprememastertv.com/save-our-planet/?wr_id=1659

  • Clearing tropical forests is a lose-lose

    Ralph Maughan

    It releases a great deal of carbon and produces much less new food than more intensive use of existing croplands- Lose-lose . . . sounds like a Western land use issue. Clearing tropical forests is a lose-lose. Michael Marshall. New Scientist.

  • Is the American Chestnut ready to begin its restoration?

    Ralph Maughan

    The first large scale planting blight resistant chestnut is done- When the chestnut blight hit in the 1950s, there were probably 3 billion American chestnut trees in the United States. Now there are perhaps only about a hundred trees in its natural range. The demise of the chestnut was a blow to wildlife that ate…

  • Losing the Whitebark Pine affects much more than grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    “We don’t know what’s going to happen without whitebark.”- I know it will soon be functionally extinct, although no doubt some token remnants will be protected from beetles and blister rust. Ecologically speaking, it is already almost gone. Here is a long essay on its demise and the effects. Feature article in New West. Grizzlies…

  • Grizzly Managers Spin Whitebark Pine Woes: Just How Important is Whitebark to Yellowstone Bears?

    Ken Cole

    Very important. Interesting post by NRDC’s Louisa Wilcox about how the science shows how critical whitebark pine nuts are for grizzlies and how the managers talk out of both sides of their mouth. “In its August 9th legal brief challenging the 2009 ruling by Federal Judge Donald Molloy that required relisting of the Yellowstone grizzly…

  • Whitebark Pine May Gain Federal Protection

    Ken Cole

    Tree, important for grizzly bears, affected by global warming, insects, and fungus The whitebark pine is a tree that lives at high elevations and was historically unaffected by pine beetles but due to global warming this has changed. Also, blister rust, an introduced fungal infection has taken a large toll on the trees. The pine…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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