ForestClimate.org

McKenzie megafire: corporate clearcut tree farms burned fast

Clearcuts Cause
Climate Change
Desertification

 

Forest / Climate links

 

Forest Incinerators

www.energyjustice.net/biomass/
Energy Justice Network

www.no-burn.org
GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance

www.stopspewingcarbon.com
Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign (Massachusetts)

 

The Global Justice Ecology Project Team

http://climatevoices.wordpress.com

http://globaljusticeecology.org

 


articles by conference presenters

Mark Harmon
Professor and Richardson Chair of Forest Science
Oregon State University

www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fs/people/faculty/harmon.php

outreach.forestry.oregonstate.edu/silvopt/abstracts/harmon..htm
Forest Management Strategies for Carbon Storage
Mark E. Harmon, Richardson Chair Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

 

Olga Krankina
Assistant Professor, Sr. Research, Forest Management, Forest Ecology
Oregon State University

www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/fs/people/faculty/krankina.php
several articles by Professor Krakina

 

Doug Heiken
Oregon Wild

www.oregonwild.org/oregon_forests/old_growth_protection/forests-global-warming/oregon-wild-report-on-forests-carbon-and-global-warming

Oregon Wild Report on Forests, Carbon and Global Warming

"The Straight Facts on Forests, Carbon, and Global Warming"

Executive Summary
Part I. Background: What determines global temperature and climate?
Part II. How does carbon move in and out of the atmosphere?
Part III. How Will Climate Change Affect the Pacific Northwest?
Part IV. How will climate change affect ecosystems, forests, and trees?
Part V. Will the Forests of the Future Become Carbon Sources or Carbon Sinks?
Part VI. What Can We do to Protect Forests from the Perils of Climate Change?
Part VII. Logging Releases Significant Amounts of Carbon.
Part VIII. What Can We Do To Increase Carbon Storage in Forests?
Part IX: Forest Management Recommendations
Part X. What about Forest Fires?
Part XI. Conclusion
Appendix: Myths & Facts about Forests and Global Warming

Pat Rasmussen
World Temperate Rainforest Network

www.temperaterainforests.org/temprainforests.htm
about temperate rainforests

www.temperaterainforests.org/links.htm
has a great list of forest protection groups in the Americas and South Pacific

Lance Olsen
former president, Great Bear Foundation. Missoula, Montana

www.tidepool.org/features/forest.climate.cfm
Swiss Army Knives
How Deforestation Changes the Climate
by LANCE OLSEN [posted.5.10.01]

Alder Fuller
Euglena Academy, Eugene, Oregon

 

 


Roseburg Resources timberlands, Douglas County, Oregon

 

this list is under construction

 

books about deforestation and forest die-off

johnperlin.com/forest.html
A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization by John Perlin

The Dying of the Trees
by Charles Little
www.dieoff.org/page47.htm
www.ecobooks.com/books/dying.htm
www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=647
have good reviews

An Appalachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America, edited by Harvard Ayers, Charles E. Little, Jenny Hager, Sierra Club Books, 1998

Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, edited by Bill Devall
Sierra Club Books / Earth Island Press 1993

 

official perspectives about forests and climate change:

www.fs.fed.us/news/2007/speeches/09/climate.shtml
Climate Change, Kids, and Forests: What’s the Connection?
Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell
Society of Environmental Journalists, Annual Conference
Stanford, CA--September 7, 2007

www.oregon.gov/ODF/PRIVATE_FORESTS/carbon.shtml
Oregon Department of Forestry page on Forests & Global Climate Change

www.oregonforests.org/conferences/carbon/
Forests, Carbon and Climate Change Conference
February 13 and 14, 2007
OSU Alumni Center, Oregon State University
sponsored by Oregon Forest Resources Institute (industry association), Oregon State University and Oregon Department of Forestry

 

Ecoforestry / Selection forestry

Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, Oregon

Coast Range Association - www.coastrange.org/forest/SustainableForestry.html

Lomakatsi

 

forest protection in Cascadia

BARK, Portland, Oregon

Cascadia's Ecosystem Advocates, Eugene, Oregon

Coast Range Association

Environmental Protection Information Center, Garberville, California

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

Gifford Pinchot Taskforce, Washington State

Klamath Forest Alliance

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center, southern Oregon

Native Forest Council, Eugene, Oregon

Northcoast Environmental Center, Arcata, California

Oregon Wild (formerly Oregon Natural Resources Council)

Siskiyou Project, southern Oregon

Umpqua Watersheds, Roseburg, Oregon

Western Canada Wilderness Committee

 

forest protection elsewhere in North America

American Lands Alliance

Dogwood Alliance

Forest Conservation Portal / Forests.org

Heartwood (broad alliance of forest protection groups)

National Forest Protection Alliance

Virginians For Wilderness

Wild South

Wild Virginia

 

climate change

Heat is On Line
Ross Gelbspan's website, author of "The Heat is On"

OilEmpire.US
Climate Change and Peak Oil: two facets of the same problem (overshoot)
OilEmpire - Climate Timelines

Prototista
Eugene, Oregon ecological education center

Real Climate
scientific information on climate change

Rising Tide North America
grassroots protest against climate changing industries

 

Peak Oil News

aspo-usa.com - Peak Oil Review, a weekly free newsletter from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (USA)

energybulletin.net - probably largest site about Peak Oil, most prolific coverage, excellent "primer" introduction

fromthewilderness.com - From the Wilderness publications and Crossing the Rubicon: the Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael Ruppert, the best original reporting on the deep politics of Peak Oil (this service shut down in November 2006, but the archives on this site are among the best anywhere)

www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html - Breaking News: Watch the Crash as it Unfolds by Matt Savinar

theoildrum.com - a community discussion about Peak Oil (somewhat technical site, had the best coverage of the impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Gulf of Mexico oil infrastructure)

Peak Oil awareness

Community Solution - the Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Dieoff.org - overpopulation and Peak Oil

Energy Crisis - an early Peak Oil awareness effort

From the Wilderness - Peak Oil and 9/11

International Forum on Globalization - Triple Crisis

OilEmpire.US a political map to understand Peak Oil Wars

Permatopia.com - a graceful end to cheap oil - permaculture for nine billion

Post Carbon Institute

Richard Heinberg

 

ecological democracy

Wild Wilderness

 

 

other important efforts

Center for Biological Diversity

Civil Liberties Defense Center

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide ELAW

Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Western Environmental Law Center

Wild Wilderness, Bend, Oregon - challenging the privatization of everything and the Disneyification of the wild

 

consumption reduction

 

 

 

non-timber forest products

Fungi Perfecti - www.fungi.com

 

environmental education

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Siskiyou Field Institute www.siskiyou.org/SFI/
Contecting people to the natural world through scientific exploration.

Dakubetede Environmental Education Program www.deepwild.org
DEEP offers diverse academic and experiential opportunities to earn graduate or undergraduate university credits in science, social studies, humanities, art, and education.

SOU Environmental Education Graduate Program www.sou.edu/biology/enved/mainpage.htm
SOU Environmental Education Graduate Program is an intensive one to two year field-oriented program leading to a Master's of Science degree in Environmental Education. This program, with its emphasis on field courses, takes advantage of the great biological diversity of Southern Oregon.

 

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
-- Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)