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[https://thenarwhal.ca/logging-warming-waters/ by Ainslie Cruickshank 7/3/23 The Narwhal] | [https://thenarwhal.ca/logging-warming-waters/ by Ainslie Cruickshank 7/3/23 The Narwhal] | ||
Globally, fish are feeling the heat from climate change, but in interior B.C. decades of logging in the headwaters of salmon streams has cranked those temperatures even higher, new research shows. As trees are cut down along waterways, small streams are exposed to more direct sunlight, while logging across watersheds can change the way water flows throughout the whole system. The combined effect can leave wild salmon swimming in waters that are warmer than they’d like. | Globally, fish are feeling the heat from climate change, but in interior B.C. decades of logging in the headwaters of salmon streams has cranked those temperatures even higher, new research shows. As trees are cut down along waterways, small streams are exposed to more direct sunlight, while logging across watersheds can change the way water flows throughout the whole system. The combined effect can leave wild salmon swimming in waters that are warmer than they’d like. | ||
=====Can Old-Growth Forest Survive a Timber Bias?===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-old-growth-forest-survive-timber-bias by Jim Furnish 6/12/24 Sierra] | |||
I retired in 2002 as deputy chief of the US Forest Service with 35 years of experience, and I was stunned, happily, when President Biden unveiled Executive Order 14072 during his second year in office. On this Earth Day, the future of mature and old-growth forests looked bright. Among the EO’s numerous measures, one stood out to me: “Conserve America’s mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.” I’ve worked with dozens of environmental groups to see how the Forest Service would address this opportunity. | |||
