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NPR article and photos salmon bring back nitrogen and other nutrients from the sea Forests on East Coast    Forest Service on Species in Forests

 current activist Goldman prize winners- who protected forests, rainforests, lagoons,  air quality, oceans from oil drilling and super-loud seismic testing,.... here is link to winners back to 1989 book   Eco-Heroes:Twelve tales of Environmental Victory by Aubrey Wallace, 1993

science news article on protecting wildlife habitat and limiting roads in order to limit pandemics- save wildlife, wild places, and prevent disease So preventing roads into wild places will save wildlife and us!   And planting food sources for stressed wildlife...

Alexandra Heal in the Financial Times 9-10-22. "The Ancient subarctic forests at risk from climate change and war".  she says these forests are going fast due to global warming and fires.  They store lots of carbon-more than humans have released...

NYT -'“greenhouse gas emissions from logging in U.S. forests are now comparable to the annual” carbon dioxide “emissions from U.S. coal burning.” Protecting federal forest lands from logging, on the other hand, would remove 84 million tons of carbon dioxide from...

NYT  burning them up for wood pellets for energy- AND GETTING SUBSIDIES FROM GOVERNMENTS- PRETENDING THEY ARE A GREEN SOURCE OF ENERGY.

link    Per Year: 8 million people killed,    600 million trees cut down  (200,000 hectares of land clearcut), 20 milloion tons of water used to grow tobacco,4.5 trillion filters littered, 6 trillion cigarettes,  lots of batteries and cartridges for...

    send a letter   "ban logging of mature and old-growth trees"  "end fracking on public lands and stop offshore drilling, and directing his agencies to reject all new fossil fuel infrastructure."  link

Autumn is here! Good News: Local people in Namibia organized and stopped a dam from flooding their ancestral lands.   Forests: Good News. Land protected as parks and reserves has increased four fold . And countries have pledged to protect...

Autumn is coming! Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism : Good News!“Each of us must experience one of two pains- the pain of discipline or the pain of...

Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/08/finding-the-mother-tree-by-suzanne-simard-review-a-journey-of-passion-and-introspection   "Here's Suzanne Simard's 2016 TED talk about forest communication and cooperation. For me, this 17-minute talk provided an engaging framework for the sometimes detailed and repetitive information in her book about carbon...

Mature trees add more tissue each year - more than planting new tress. articles on keep the trees we have and plant and care for the trees: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-protect-forests-climate-change https://www.sciencenews.org/article/trees-crops-agroforestry-climate-biodiversity https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-climate-change-carbon-capture-deforestation https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tasking-trees-with-averting-climate-crisis-big-ask

link  Biden and the USFS protect the immense 16 million Alaska forest "one of the world's largest intact temperate forests, the Tongass National Forest stores more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon and sequesters an additional 10 million metric...

Summer is here!  Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism :  Good News!The first wolf pack in 80 years – 6 wolf pups are now living in CO with their...

article  similar to Rachel Carson's Sense of Wonder and Cousteau's first love the ocean to protect it, this article says go and support the groups that help indigenous groups protect their land.   To be married to the places and interconnections...

"We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt deforestation and land conversion, as well as manage food production sustainably."   https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/17/top-global-experts-say-humanity-must-heal-our-broken-relationship-nature-prevent "If we do not do things differently, we are finished," she said. "We can't go...

Trees for the Future gives trees to lower income people in Africa to plant .  They also give wheel barrows and shovels.  They give other seeds and seedlings.  The local people get food and income from the crops; the trees...

"Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate" "The 'biotic pump' theory argues that natural forests act as a “pump” that draws moisture inland. condensation, rather than temperature differential, is a primary driver of weather...." "Here's a snapshot of the...

Alex Hutchinson in the New Yorker recounts "How Trees Calm Us Down". People recover faster when they can see trees. They do better on tests after a walk by trees. Seeing them thru a window or even a picture of...