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niilasnordenswan · 1 year

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#fine art photography #visual poetry #silence #forests #old forests #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumbr #bnw photography #original photographers #north karelia #visit finland #Koli #niilas nordenswan

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theminecraftbee · 5 months

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also btw, for the new hermitcraft fans who haven’t been around for the turn of one season to another before: get excited! I cannot overstate how much the creative energy is entirely reinvigorated and how FUN watching the “brand new server” episodes are when they first come out like START OF SEASON TIME IS SOME OF THE BEST HERMITCRAFT TIME. get hyped for that!!!!

#hermitcraft #to be clear: you can be sad season 10 is over this is not me saying don’t be that #this is me saying BUT THERE ARE MANY GREAT THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO SOON #DONT BE ONLY SAD. THE END OF ONE THING IS THE START OF ANOTHER ONE!#it’s like a forest fire. you’ve gotta burn the old to get some good new growth.

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reasonsforhope · 4 months

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"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage.

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

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peacefulandcozy · 3 months

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Instagram credit: opheliesz

#bretagne #france #vintage aesthetic #vintage clothing #vintage style #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia vibes #nature aesthetic #nature vibes #nature #autumn forest #forest aesthetic #old books #bookblr #classic literature #castle #vintagedecor

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guardian-angle22 · 3 months

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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN. Actor and Tea Connoisseur.

#hayden christensen #star wars cast #my gifs #listen i've fallen down a web of old hayden interviews #and now all I want out of life is for him to make me tea #I'm just imagining hayden foraging in a forest for fresh tea ingredients and honestly it tracks #swcastedit #haydenchristensenedit

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pnw-forest-side · 1 year

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Alone, but not really

#forest aesthetic #rainforests #olympic national park #old growth trees #pnw #washington state #ferns #moss #olympic peninsula #trees #wander #skokomish river valley

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headspace-hotel · 1 year

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I needed to make a post about how brain-explodingly huge trees actually are and how what you think is a "mature" tree is so tiny and barely beginning its life so i drew a sketchy picture about it

Liriodendron tulipifera, known as tulip poplar (it is not a poplar, its closest living relatives outside Liriodendron genus are magnolias) is a tree common in forests of the eastern United States. It was very valued for timber and when most of the Eastern forests were clear cut, almost all of the great ancient tulip poplars were destroyed. The tallest L. tulipifera that still exists is in a secret location in West Virginia, and it is 191 feet tall

anyways logging of old growth forests is an unthinkable crime against a hundred generations of descendants

#trees #old growth forests

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artistaspiring · 1 month

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#please don't step on them #stamp #graphics #old web #geocities #critters #snail #snails #slugs #slug #worm #worms #bugs #animals #cottagecore #mori kei #forest #garden #animal #nature #Earth

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fruitandflowercrowns · 11 months

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oh, well!

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#cottagecore #aesthetic #cottage core #grandmacore #forest #cottage aesthetic #forest core #old well #countryside #greencore #mosscore #goblincore #gremlincore #dark cottagecore #faecore #naturecore

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kadekeys · 1 year

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my economics professor mentioned that my state's old growth logging ban was lifted (in a positive tone) and i already didn't like her but i almost went apeshit istg. @headspace-hotel's posts actually changed my brain chemistry. i rambled to a few classmates about them afterwards and went into a research spiral for half the afternoon too. i'm so angry that i'll never see them. i'll never be able to walk on six inches of topsoil. i'll be lucky to walk on one. economics are a joke i want my goddamn earth back

#old growth forests #mycorrhizal fungi #mycelium #topsoil #sorry for the @ headspace im just very angry right now and you were the main factor making me understand enough to be angry about it

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niilasnordenswan · 1 year

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