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Mass media attention began by relaying highly controversial, and at times, violent coverage of the protest events, showcasing dramatic outcomes that would lead to higher viewing and readership rates. Reporters believed that this sort of coverage was necessary to bring attention to the cause (given the outcome of certain protests) and offered ...
Clearcutting method – a method for regenerating an even-aged community by removing all the mature trees; Clearcutting system – a silvicultural system incorporating the clearcutting method to remove (clear) the mature community over a considerable area at one time [13] Confusion between these different uses of the term is common.
Guy M. Brandborg (1893–1977) was supervisor of Bitterroot National Forest in Montana from 1935 to 1955 and later became a conservation activist. His campaigns were instrumental in passing the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the most significant policy affecting forestry practices on public lands since the founding of the National Forest Service.
ForestEthics was born out of Friends of Clayoquot Sound (FOCS) [5] —a group of residents on Vancouver Island who originally organized themselves in 1979 to block logging company Macmillan Bloedel from clearcutting a local mountain range— [6] which then became a part of Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition in 1994.
A company backed by US investors sold "deforestation-free" palm oil to the makers of Cheetos, Colgate and Pepsi. But its investors have ties to the company that cleared Amazonian rainforest for ...
The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 (P.L. 94-588) is a United States federal law that is the primary statute governing the administration of national forests and was an amendment to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, which called for the management of renewable resources on national forest lands.
Here's what to know about the controversial power line cutting across Kansas. Gannett. Jack Harvel, Topeka Capital-Journal. September 30, 2024 at 9:29 AM.
Logan Swensen has heard the stories and has a hard time believing them. "I think what they were doing was torture," Swensen said. What they were doing was cutting weight, a wrestling strategy of ...