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[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/science/redwood-trees-logging-california.html by Jim Robbins 15/8/23 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/science/redwood-trees-logging-california.html by Jim Robbins 15/8/23 The New York Times] | ||
In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to the acre and so jam-packed it is difficult to walk through. | In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to the acre and so jam-packed it is difficult to walk through. | ||
=====Defying E.U. Court, Poland Is Cutting Trees in an Ancient Forest===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/world/europe/poland-bialowieza-forest-bison-logging.html by Joanna Berendt 31/7/17 The New York Times] | |||
The decision is the latest challenge by Poland to the legal authority of the European Union, which Poland joined in 2004, and could result in financial penalties. The arch-conservative and nationalist government that took power in Poland in 2015 has been chastised by the authorities in Brussels; last week, it was formally warned that its efforts to consolidate power over the judiciary in Poland threatened the rule of law. | |||
