It’s something we never really thought about when we were young, but timber prices actually could help our forest health after more than a century of fire suppression and decades of forest decline in Colorado from (you pick it) drought, insects, disease or climate change.
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RSS feed for this sectionProprietor Jeff Thomas does a lot of freelance writing, as much as he can concerning outdoor lifestyles, natural resources/environmental issues and science. Subscribe to the RSS feed if you like or use the email subscription to keep abreast of these posts.
What they aren’t telling you about school safety
There’s a lot that schools and police aren’t telling you about school safety. Here’s a story I wrote for the North 40 news that everyone should read.
Feds say fix stream losses by the book
A lot of people in government and the water industry were thinking that the Army Corps of Engineers was thinking about loosening rules on stream modification — Section 404 permits — following the September floods. The Corps, however, says it just ain’t so.
Upper-elevation tree loss escalates
The good news is the tree loss from the mountain pine beetle appears to be weakening. The bad news is that we’re losing more species than lodgepole pine now in Colorado upper-elevation forests.
Debris flows a danger in Poudre Canyon
BY JEFF THOMAS Story originally appears in the North 40 News on July 24, 2013 There was a good hour of warning before this life-threatening event — a warning everyone who travels Poudre Canyon should take seriously if it happens again: “At 2:07 p.m., the National Weather Service advised that they were tracking a […]