Я думаю, мы обречены. Какой еще
вывод вы можете сделать, прочитав, что единственный способ избежать лесных
пожаров - это вырубить лес?
ГЛАВНЫЕ НОВОСТИ
Сила старых деревьев
В 2021 году вступило в силу правило эпохи Трампа, разрешающее вырубку
старовозрастных лесов в шести национальных лесах. В сентябре прошлого года
сенаторы Джо Манчин из Западной Вирджинии и Джон Баррассо из Вайоминга
представили двухпартийный законопроект, направленный на “снижение риска
катастрофических лесных пожаров и улучшение состояния лесов”, в основном за счет
агрессивной вырубки лесов. Подавляющее большинство старовозрастных лесов страны
уже вырублено, однако Лесная служба США продолжает реализацию планов по вырубке
десятков тысяч старовозрастных лесов.
От:
Ugo
Bardi <prudent...@gmail.com>Date:
ср, 3 апр. 2024 г. в 11:26
Subject: [Holobionts] We are doomed
I think we are doomed. What else can you conclude
when you read that the way to avoid wildfire risk is to cut the
forest?
Old Growth
Power
In 2021 a
Trump-era rule went into effect allowing logging of old-growth forests in six
national forests. Last September, Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and John
Barrasso of Wyoming introduced bipartisan legislation to “reduce catastrophic
wildfire risk and improve forest health,” largely through aggressive forest
cutting. The vast majority of the country’s old-growth forests have already been
clear-cut, yet the U.S. Forest Service is pushing ahead with plans to clear tens
of thousands of old growth woods.
Why this matters: Old-growth
forests house diverse and rare ecosystems and threatened plant and animal
species. They store 35 to 75 percent more carbon than logged stands. They
cool the
surrounding air. Most forests are not only naturally fire resilient (contradicting
the political justification for their destruction), but many thrive from
intermittent fires.
Point of controversy: The Yaak River
watershed covers 390,000 acres in the U.S. and includes spans of old-growth
forest. The controversial Black Ram project proposed by the U.S. Forest Service
would log parts of the Yaak, including a 192-acre parcel known as Unit 72, where
some trees are 600 years old. “They say they’ll log this old-growth forest—this
wet, green rainforest—to create fire resilience,” says Rick Bass, an author and
forest activist, “but these trees are already fire-resilient. This larch, for
example, is not only meant to survive fire; it’s meant to prosper from
it.
Map shows the
Kootenai National Forest and the Yaak River watershed, located in the northwest
corner of Montana. The forest spills into Idaho to the west: The watershed area
extends north into Canada. The Black Ram project and Unit 72 are
labelled.
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