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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin declares emergency in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> </p><p>The executive action spans the entire state</p><p>By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors EditorApril 8, 2025</p><p>"A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalForests</span></a>, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-national-forests-logging-20263873.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfgate.com/la/article/californ</span><span class="invisible">ia-national-forests-logging-20263873.php</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/K6esm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/K6esm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOurForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOurForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsABully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsABully</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClearCutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClearCutting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Redwoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Redwoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldGrowthForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldGrowthForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s order will unleash the chain saws &amp; bulldozers on our federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a>,” said Randi Spivak, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLands</span></a> policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> group. “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Clearcutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clearcutting</span></a> these beautiful places will increase <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> risk, drive species to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollute</span></a> our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rivers</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/streams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streams</span></a>, &amp; destroy world-class recreation sites,” she said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/habitats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>habitats</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/MonochromeMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonochromeMonday</span></a></p><p>This is not progress.<br>This is not civilized.<br>We need to protect remaining <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OldGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AncientForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientForests</span></a>. They're our 2nd largest <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a> - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Clearcutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clearcutting</span></a> forests should be banned.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/WorthMoreStanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorthMoreStanding</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveOldGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOldGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopDeforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopDeforestation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopClearcuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopClearcuts</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VancouverIsland</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCNewDeathParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNewDeathParty</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WorldInMyEyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldInMyEyes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DisabledPhotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPhotographer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Backroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Backroads</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VanIsle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VanIsle</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Stumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stumps</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ProtectNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectNature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ProtectForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectForests</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanDestruction</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>"The increasing severity of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> highlights that reforming <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForestStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestStewardship</span></a> – taking better care of the forests, including safeguarding <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OldGrowthForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldGrowthForests</span></a> – is one of our best hopes to protect communities across B.C.</p><p>Harmful <a href="https://beige.party/tags/forestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forestry</span></a> practices like <a href="https://beige.party/tags/clearcutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clearcutting</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/unsustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsustainable</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndustrialLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialLogging</span></a> make extreme heat and wildfires worse. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Clearcuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clearcuts</span></a> are <a href="https://beige.party/tags/tinderboxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tinderboxes</span></a>, more prone to creating embers because dead trees and branches dry out in the hot sun and become more <a href="https://beige.party/tags/flammable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flammable</span></a>. Tree plantations and improperly tended young forests also increase wildfire risk: Younger trees have thinner bark and low-hanging branches that can act as ladder fuels, and the trees are often planted too close together, making it easy for fire to spread.</p><p>Fortunately, intact and properly managed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> are more resilient to the worsening wildfires and heatwaves. For example, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OldGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/rainforests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rainforests</span></a> have dense canopies which provide cooling shade that resists fire. They are cooler and wetter than young forests, acting as giant sponges. Old-growth trees in the drier interior have thick bark, high branches and are widely spaced which all reduce <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildfireRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildfireRisk</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/SierraClubBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SierraClubBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environmental</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveOldGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOldGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BanCorporateLobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanCorporateLobbyists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCwildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCwildfires</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCfloods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCfloods</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateMitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateMitigation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopDeforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopDeforestation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/JustStopOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustStopOil</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DoTheRightThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoTheRightThing</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OneEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneEarth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCForestryReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCForestryReform</span></a></p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>"After an area has met the legal requirement for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regeneration</span></a>, it is handed back to the state — and is no longer the responsibility of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VicForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VicForests</span></a> to look after.</p><p>“Many of these coupes that have failed regeneration have actually been ticked off and handed back to the Victorian government some years back in a failed state,” said Mr Patton."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClearCutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClearCutting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-</span><span class="invisible">analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@WesternWatershedsProject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WesternWatershedsProject</span></a></span> <br>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> have used <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPine</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/juniper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>juniper</span></a> trees for food, medicine and ceremonial purposes since time immemorial. Pinyon pine nuts are a traditional food source for area Tribes and a focal point of traditional ways of life. Tribes and their members maintain ties to historic pine-nut gathering locations and hold ceremonies coinciding with the annual pine nut harvest.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpringValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpringValley</span></a> is an important cultural landscape for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>, both as a traditional location for gathering and ceremony, and as a site of repeated massacres by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonizers</span></a>. Two Western Shoshone Tribal elders, Delaine and Rick Spilsbury, have joined today’s litigation." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clearcutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clearcutting</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://westernwatersheds.org/court-order-sought-to-block-clear-cutting-project-near-nevadas-great-basin-national-park/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">westernwatersheds.org/court-or</span><span class="invisible">der-sought-to-block-clear-cutting-project-near-nevadas-great-basin-national-park/</span></a></p>