Newsletter Photo by Billy Huynh on Unsplash Reviving the majestic redwood forests A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws.
Photo by Dmitry Bukhantsov on Unsplash Climate threatens carbon forest offset projects Regions most at risk of losing forest carbon through fire, climate stress, or insect damage are precisely those regions where many forest carbon offset projects are located, report researchers.
Newsletter Photo by david lindahl on Unsplash New study sounds alarm, provides hope for the Northwest's Western red cedars Research links cedar death to climate, details which trees are dying, which are surviving and shows how the species might be saved.
Newsletterwww.flickr.com ‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought.
Impactscommons.wikimedia.org Massive die-off hits fir trees across Pacific Northwest Labeled “Firmageddon,” by researchers, the drought-driven “mortality event” is the largest ever recorded in the region.
Causes Photo by Justin Wilkens on Unsplash A notorious invasive plant shows promise in green construction Imported from Japan in 1876, kudzu strangles forests and farmland throughout the South. Could it build cities instead?
Solutions Photo by Steven Kamenar on Unsplash Is the wood-wide web real? Scientists debate whether trees really talk From Ted Lasso to TED Talks, the theory of the “wood-wide web” is everywhere, and some scientists argue that it is overblown and unproven.
