Forest
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Science
To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire
Beneath a cerulean sky and a forest of the largest trees on Earth, the chairman of the Tübatulabal Tribe, Robert Gomez, offered a prayer. “I want to tell the spirit on the other side of the sun to give us power for this burn,” he said. “Give us a ...
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News
Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging, and Some Are Suspicious
Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.
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World
‘The Trees Saved Me’
The story of the Forest of Immortal Stories begins not so long ago, in 2019, when Elena-Mirela Cojocaru, beloved wife of Ion Cojocaru, mayor of the hamlet of Nucsoara, died after a struggle with cancer. Mr. Cojocaru himself soon fell ill with a heart ...
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US
Americans Love Avocados. It’s Killing Mexico’s Forests.
First the trucks arrived, carrying armed men toward the mist-shrouded mountaintop. Then the flames appeared, sweeping across a forest of towering pines and oaks. After the fire laid waste to the forest last year, the trucks returned. This time, they ...
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World
Female Rangers ‘Don’t Go All Alpha Like the Men’ to Protect a Forest
Riding her motorbike while balancing a backpack, a wok and a sharp cleaver, Asmia expertly maneuvered her way up a dangerous cliffside: a three-mile trip along a precipitous dirt path, barely 40 inches wide, to reach the mouth of the forest. Asmia is ...
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News
Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service rule restricts development on more than nine million acres in North America’s largest temperate rainforest, reversing a Trump decision.
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World
In Forests Full of Mines, Ukrainians Find Mushrooms and Resilience
ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine — Deep in a pine forest to the north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, a beautiful mushroom warmed its brown cap in the gentle autumn sun — it was an all but irresistible scene for Ukrainian mushroom hunters. But all around there ...
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Science
Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest
It’s easy to look at a forest and think it’s inevitable: that the trees came into being through a stately procession of seasons and seeds and ...
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US
In Utah, Restoring Spruce Forests One Cone at a Time
ACROSS THE COUNTRY In Utah, Restoring Spruce Forests One Cone at a Time Seasonal workers climb tree after tree to collect seeds that will ...