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Я думаю, мы обречены. Какой еще вывод вы можете сделать, прочитав, что единственный способ избежать лесных пожаров - это вырубить лес?

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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 <prudentlobster at 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?
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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.
Credit: Dolly Holmes
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