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The August Complex fire has earned 'gigafire' status, offering a terrifying glimpse into how climate change and other factors are worsening California's fire danger. 
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The world’s forests are being carved into pieces. In tropical regions, animals are likely to pay a heavy price.
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WASHINGTON -- In the story of St. Boniface, a Thunder Oak decorated with lit candles and gilded apples was glowing in the dark fores
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Sponsored: Stakeholder collaboration and data-centric sensing technology are emerging as essential ingredients in reducing deforestation.
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SACRAMENTO — Most real Christmas trees sold in California are raised on farms, creating jobs and boosting the economies in rural areas. That's jus
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Another argument in the real vs. fake tree debate.
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Canada's "War in the Woods" ends with a land agreement that could save forests around the world.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Landscape and habitat conservation tends to produce more individuals and more numerous populations of focal members of those ecosystems.
As an aside, we just saw the first phototrap documentation of black bears returning to the Santa Monica Mountains since Grizzlies were extirpated in the 1880s. Same underlying principals, but our colleagues up in Vancouver have more more to work with than those of us on the fringe of urban Los Angeles.
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Marielle Anzelone is trying to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter to fund "a crazy PR event for nature."
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The US Forest Service is beginning to decommission some of its roads, opening the way for a wildlife comeback Via Anita Woodruff
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We should be more about taking down these un-/under-used roads and facilitating the repair of fragmented landscapes rather than pushing for more and more roadbeds.
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Forest Research and Outreach - Reforestation and Afforestation Practices for California
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This looks to be a great resrouce for those of us worried about post-fire recovery (in the coastal zone and beyond) across California and the west generally.
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In a new study, a team of Michigan State University scientists designed and fabricated a remote forest fire detection and alarm system powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind. Via EcoVadis
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ROME -- FAO launched a new $7.1 million project supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to make forest data more accessible, transparent and available
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Ryan Zinke worked to gut forest protections as Montana’s U.S. representative. Now, as interior secretary, he’s pushing the same timber-friendly policies.
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Depending on whom you ask, eucalyptus trees are either an icon in California or a fire-prone scourge.
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The U.S. Forest Service has filed criminal charges against a Cal State Chico fraternity for cutting down 32 trees in a Northern California national forest during an initiation of new pledges.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Not very scout-like behavior.
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A new study examining wildfires in California found that human activity explains as much about their frequency and location as climate influences.
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Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up ‘Pandora’s box’ of environmental impacts Oil and gas roads are encroaching deeper into the western Amazon, one of the world’s last wildernesses and biodiversity hotspots, according to a new... Via Garry Rogers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While not new, this is still concerning. More and more roads = more and more fragmentation = less and less intact forest.
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Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage, change, and tree cover (among other things). These estimates and their eventual actions used to be slow. Now they're near-real-time.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is about to change with the launch of Global Forest Watch—an online forest monitoring system created by the World Resources Institute, Google and a group of more than 40 partners. Global Forest Watch uses technologies including Google Earth Engine and Google Maps Engine to map the world’s forests with satellite imagery, detect changes in forest cover in near-real-time, and make this information freely available to anyone with Internet access.
Rooted In Hope's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 12:41 PM
Real-time data changing the face, and pace, of deforestation. |
