FORESTS FOREVER

TED Talk featuring forest ecologist Suzanne Simard on the fungal internet in forest soils. video 18:24

"Through decades of research, and now lived experience, it has become clear that the impacts of climate change will have drastic and far-reaching consequences on our planet."

"Haaland called the orders by her predecessors, Ryan Zinke and David Bernhardt, 'inconsistent with the department’s commitment to protect public health; conserve land, water, and wildlife; and elevate science.'''

BBC animation shows how trees exchange vital nutrients and other signals. video 1:47

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"One way to relieve this pressure and alleviate poverty is to recognize and further optimize the critical role of forests and trees as allies in the fight against poverty. In the long run, losing forests means losing this fight."

"If you've been paying attention, none of this is news. What is new is that public opinion about the climate crisis is finally changing."

"A federal court had issued an injunction last year that limited timber activities and restoration projects on national forest lands in New Mexico and Arizona pending the outcome of a battle over the threatened Mexican spotted owl."

"While restoration cannot by itself solve all the problems the natural world faces right now, it is quickly becoming a major tool for ecologists, farmers, ranchers, investors, and citizen activists."

"We need to improve forest education and more widely, public understanding of forests and forestry to help to prepare current and future generations to do a better job of protecting land and water resources, biodiversity, and livelihoods."

"Anyone who wants to understand how trees are being managed will be able to download the necessary information for analysis - for free."

"In the face of climate change society must accelerate the storage of atmospheric carbon if we hope to slow and eventually reverse the worse effects of the climate crisis. One of most effective and inexpensive ways store carbon is in our forests."

"The great thing about natural restoration of forests is that it often requires nothing more than human inaction. Nature is constantly at work restoring forests piecemeal and often unseen on the edges of fields, on abandoned pastures, in scrubby bush, and wherever forests lie degraded or former forest land is abandoned."

" #Forests have historically been valued on an industrial scale, managed to maximize the amount of timber cut. But when they aren’t #clearcut, they also offer other valuable resources that advocates say should be recognized as well."

"Human health is integral to the conservation of nature and vice versa, and we need to listen to the guidance of rainforest communities who know best how to live in balance with their forests,"

"'It’s one of the most cost effective ways of combating climate change,' said Bernardo B.N. Strassburg, one of the study’s authors and an environmental scientist with Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the International Institute for Sustainability. 'And it’s one of the most important ways of avoiding global extinctions.'"

"The election’s outcomenot just who wins the White House but who controls Congresswill determine what laws get passed, how budgets are allocated and what direction key science-related agencies (such as NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will take. "