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Report: Restoring forests a 226 gigaton climate solution
A new report published in Nature underscores the need to preserve existing forests rather than just planting new trees to fight climate change. The report, from 200 scientists worldwide, stated that allowing forests to reach maturity and become old-growth has tremendous carbon storage and biodiversity conservation potential — a win-win natural climate solution.
I thought it was the biggest clearcut in Oregon. I was wrong.
A 22-square-mile clearcut.
That’s what I saw when I looked out the window of the small plane I was riding in, a Lighthawk-sponsored flight over the private logging lands bordering the Willamette National Forest. I didn’t know the exact size at the time; all I could do was react to the scale of logging. In my two decades doing conservation work in Oregon, I’d never seen such a large landscape denuded of trees.
Environmental films and advocacy in Eugene
Oregon Wild is a proud sponsor of the 2023 Eugene Environmental Film Festival, running from September 29 through October 8.
The films look fantastic, showcasing everything from bumblebees and wolverines here in Oregon, to sustainability efforts in Africa and climate activism around the world.
Webcast: Hiking the Old-Growth Forests of the Cascades: 25 Years of Change
From the slopes of Mount Hood to the headwaters of the Willamette, old-growth forest trails in the Oregon Cascades offer some of the best hiking you can imagine. On this webcast, join John Cissel, an old-growth lover and forest researcher who hiked thousands of miles of these trails in the 1990s and published guide-maps and a book describing his favorite hikes in the Mount Hood and Willamette National Forests. Now, he's published a “3rd edition” of his guide online, with updates and reflections from 25 years of change in the forest and on the trails.