Commercial forestry in US monuments (and their size) are in flux

December 6, 2017
Category: Today's Takeaway

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called on President Donald Trump to shrink a total of four national monuments—including Southern Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou—and change the way 10 others are managed. Elsewhere, Maine’s Katahdin Woods and Waters monument is to remain unchanged, while Native American leaders are filing lawsuits over the changes to Utah’s monument.

In other news, Mayor Bob Simpson says BC’s Site C dam puts biomass energy at risk; pressure by Northern Pulp prompted Coles book store to axe a signing event, while its author says Nova Scotia is the last place she believed she would feel oppressed. Elsewhere, the Spruce bark beetle is returning to Alaska, while the state’s last big timber mill (Viking) faces an uncertain future.

Finally, Interfor’s Rick Slaco [and paparazzi wannabe] caught a Barred Owl making a successful kill in downtown Vancouver.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor

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