#timber industry

[rjzimmerman]

Summary of a report from the Center for Biological Diversity entitled, “Worth More Standing: Climate Forests:”

The report, Worth More Standing — which spotlights the 10 worst logging projects on federal lands across the country — was released today and details federal logging proposals targeting nearly one-quarter of a million acres of old-growth and mature forests overseen by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. In it the Climate Forests coalition outlines “a pervasive pattern of federal forest mismanagement that routinely sidesteps science to turn carbon-storing giants into lumber” and calls on the Biden administration to pass a permanent rule to protect these big, old trees.

The threatened forests are in North Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, California and Oregon.

Mature and old-growth forests hold enormous amounts of carbon. Preserving these trees is a meaningful, cost-effective measure the Biden administration can take immediately to mitigate climate change. Biden issued an Earth Day executive order directing an inventory of old forests and policies to protect them.

Also today, more than 100 groups sent a letter to the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments requesting an immediate start to a rulemaking process to ensure permanent protections for mature and old-growth trees and forests across federal lands, while allowing for necessary measures to reduce wildfire risk. Large, older trees are more resistant to wildfires, and studies show logging them doesn’t reduce the risk of climate change-driven fires.

The forests described and discussed in the report:

Willamette National Forest, Oregon | Flat Country Timber Sale

Kootenai National Forest, Montana | Black Ram Project

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin | Fourmile Vegetation Project

Medford District Bureau of Land Management, Oregon | Poor Windy Project

Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina | Buck Project, Tusquitee Ranger District

Kaibab National Forest, Arizona | Burnt Corral Vegetation Management Project

Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont | Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project

Medford District, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon| Integrated Vegetation Management Project

Klamath National Forest, California | Bear Country Project

Black Hills National Forest, Wyoming and South Dakota | Black Hills Resilient Landscapes Project

#forests #trees #timber industry #lumber industry #climate change #Bureau of Land Management #US Forest Service

[environmentalwatch]

Tongass Nat. Forest Protected

Tongass Forest Bans Logging Roads

Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting between environmental protections and commercial timber interests. In 2020, Alaska state leaders persuaded the Trump administration to undo…

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#alaska #Donald Trump #logging #old growth forests #President Joe Biden #timber industry #tom vilsack #tongass #tongass national forest

[willoftrees]

while looking for properties i have learned timber industry can claim land as conservation, while spraying herbicide every year to kill everything except their lumber trees, and in 30 years or so want to come back and clear cut all the trees they planted.

they call this CONSERVATION?!? and they even get a tax writeoff for it!

😡😡😡

apparently growing a monocluture of douglas firs with the end goal of cutting them down for lumbar, is conservatoon, but growing a food forest out of native edible plants is not.

#forestry #timber #timber industry #conservation #i wanna blow the fucking whistle on this shit #i qant laws changed they have been lying to the oublic #fooling us all into thinking they are conservation #if u look at satellite imageryof washington state you can see how much has been deforested #this kinda shit is they #they clear cut it in sections every 30 years or so when the trees mature #it's so ugly #it's sad and devoid of life

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“CITY MEN PAY $3,000,000 FOR TIMBER,” The Province (Vancouver). March 6, 1931. Page 1. --- Construction of Logging Railway to Start on Monday. --- TWENTY SQUARE MILES IN TRACT ---- Outlet of Big Logging Operations on Harrison Lake. ---- SALE of one billion feet of standing timber in the Harrison lake area for approximately $3,000,000 is announced today.

The purchasers plan to start construction of a logging railway on the site on Monday, and will soon employ 150 men on the project.

The deal, which is the largest of its kind in British Columbia in about four years, was put through by Mr. C. F. Pretty, well-known Vancouver timber agent, who acted for both parties.

Purchasing firm was the Green Point Logging Co., a Vancouver organization, with Mr. P. B. Anderson, of the P. B. Anderson Logging Co., as president. Messrs. Clay and Dewey Anderson, his two sons, acted with him for the purchasers. 

Mr. Howard White of Raleigh, North Carolina, acted for the vendors, the Harrison Lake Timber Co. Ltd., which has held the timber for the past ten years and carried on limited operations. 

The tract comprises twenty square miles of timber land east of Cascade Bay on Harrison Lake and surrounding Hicks and Goose lakes.

#vancouver #harrison lake #coast mountains #logging railway #railway construction #logging camp #logging #timber industry #timber stands #resource extraction #resource capitalism #great depression in canada

[putyourbodyuponthewheels]

#deforestation #illegal wildlife trade #madagascar #China #timber industry

[arc-hus]

Wolterslaan Row house, Ghent - Raamwerk

#Raamwerk #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #house #minimal #house design #contemporary architecture #metal cladding #cinder block #industrial #glass #timber #kitchen #courtyard #town house #cool homes #belgium

[jasontoddsgaythoughts]

Need Tim and Bernard kissing in the rain, but it’s just the batkids hidden behind them and holding different hoses to create the effect

#dick is trying to stop Damian from using an industrial firefighter hose directly on them #yeah Jason bought that hose but in his defense no one told him what type to bring #omg next part of the Batfam sitcom? #timbern #is that their ship name or is it timber #tim drake #red robin #robin #bernard dowd #batfam #dc

[vintagehomecollection]

Rooms by Design, 1989

#vintage #vintage interior #1980s #interior design #home decor #kitchen #staircase #curtains #skylight #island #photography #timber #rafters #artist #loft #industrial #classical #style #home #architecture

[turbotaxevasion]

ok but we all agree that Tim is like a privileged little man with money and things nobody else can afford so I imagine that this 17 year old CEO has very little idea of what working a minimum wage job is actually like. but Bernard does. Bernard probably works 2 minimum wage jobs and tells Tim all about it. what I'm trying to say is that this is how Tim becomes Bernard's sugar daddy

#bernard in the service industry owns my ass #comics #tim drake #bernard dowd #timber #tim drake x bernard dowd #red robin dc #dc comics

[subtilitas]

Goffart Polomé - Salt warehouse, Houffalize 2020. Photos (C) Antoine Richez.

#Goffart Polome #architecture #Industrial Building #timber #belgium

[speedilydeepruins]

Red Sequoia Trees aka Californian Redwood

#original photography #original photographer #photographers on tumblr #redwoods #hardwood #building industry #timber #housing #landscape #Otway National Park #great ocean road #roadtrip #short holiday #australian landscapes #Australian photography #australian photographers

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:

Under tungsten light on a bleak winter day, Gerald Koch gazes up from a black microscope, adjusts his rimless glasses, and gestures at a monitor displaying a slice, thinner than a hair, of suspected illegal timber.

“I only need to look at these two to know immediately it comes from South America,” he says, pointing at a pair of large white cells on a canvas of charcoal gray. “This is down to our years of experience.”

The quiet corridors of the Thünen Institute, a cluster of dreary, 1960s-era concrete buildings in a leafy suburb of Hamburg in northern Germany, might not tally with the image of a world-leading hub fighting international crime. But housed in a second-floor laboratory overlooking the institute’s 22-acre grounds, which are filled with 1,500 tree species, is the foremost center for timber authentication in the world.

“A lot of the timber being illegally logged is difficult to trace and often customs declarations are wrong,” says Koch, who leads the institute’s Center of Competence on the Origin of Timber. “It’s our job to uncover the truth.”

The illegal timber industry, worth $152 billion a year, is the world’s third largest criminal sector after drugs and counterfeit goods, according to Interpol. As the global wood trade has boomed—the value of forest product exports more than quadrupled between 1980 and 2020—so too has the awareness of its illegal component. The WWF estimates that 16 to 19 percent of the European Union’s wood imports come from illegal sources.

Every day a team of 15, including four forensic scientists, inspects a curious array of wooden objects—from children’s toys to window frames, coat hangers, and umbrella handles—to determine where they were made and whether they were made of endangered or protected trees. The team alerts German authorities if any sample is found to be in breach of the European Timber Regulation, which since 2013 has banned illegal timber imports, or the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a multilateral treaty to protect plants and wildlife.

#timber industry #illegal trade

[falseandrealultravival]

Yosaku（Saburo Kitajima）Enka

♪Hey hey ho

Before the spread of world-class civilization, Japan also had a "relaxed" life. More specifically, before cheap USA and Canadian timber came into Japan, Japanese timber could be sold if cut from the mountains, and lumberjacks lived comfortably. However, Japanese lumber costs a lot of labor costs, and it was not possible to compete with foreign lumber. Japan's forestry industry declined, and the lumberjack's livelihood became unsustainable. This song vividly depicts the lumberjack couple's fulfilling day before that happened.

与作（北島三郎）演歌

♪ヘイ　ヘイ　ホー

世界標準の文明が浸透する前、日本にも「ゆったりとした」生活があった。より具体的には、安いＵＳＡ，カナダ産の木材が日本に入ってくる前、日本産の木材は、山から伐り出せば売れ、木こりの暮らしも安泰だった。でも日本の木材には人件費が多くかかっていて、しょせん外国の木材には勝てなかった。そして日本の林業は衰退していき、木こりの暮らしは成り立たなくなっていった。この歌は、そうなる前の木こり夫婦の充実した一日を活写する。

#Yosaku #Saburo Kitajima #Enka #relaxed #lumberjacks #timber #Babylman #Japan's forestry industry declined #Youtube

[conundrumcomics]

sawdust tree

#multifarious #comics #conundrum #sawdust saga #oiled baron #hat's still usable #secret electromagnetic radiation reference (but can you find it?!?!) #consequences of the industrial revolution on the timber industry #is this how multiple images works

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“COMPANY ISSUES WRIT AGAINST TIMBER JUDGES,” Toronto Star. February 14, 1921. Page 1. ---- Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills, Ltd., Launches Action. ---- PROBE IS ADJOURNED ---- Commissioners Say It Would Be Improper to Proceed Pending Decision ---- A writ was issued at Osgoode Hall to-day by Percy B. Wilson, C. H. Jones, George R. Gray, J. U. Gibson and the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills, Ltd. against Hon. Wiliam Renwick Riddell and Hon. Francis Robert Latchford, the commissioners conducting the timber investigation.

The plaintiffs claim is follows:

A declaration that defendants are professing to act as commissioners  under Revised Statutes of Ontario, chapter 18, without lawful authority.

A declaration that the defendants are endeavoring to investigate matters relating to the business and of the plaintiffs without Jurisdiction.

A declaration that the subpoenas duces tecum or summons issued by the defendants to the plaintiffs dated 5th February, 1921 are beyond the jurisdiction of the defendants to issue, and are improper and should be set aside.

A declaration that it is beyond the jurisdiction of the defendants and irrelevant to the purpose of the commission to require the individual plaintiffs to attend as witnesses and produce the papers and documents set out, in said subpoenas or summonses.

And for an injunction and such other relief as the plaintiffs are entitled to.

Place of trial, Toronto.

The writ was issued by Col. Thomas Gibson, solicitor to the plaintiffs/

Shirley Denison, K.C.. solicitor for defendants, has entered an appearance. Mr. C. Hile in reference to the writ said:

The company refuses to produce anything (not having passed between the government and the company) in connection with the company's business with the government, and generally "any books, papers or documents in any way relating to the application of September 19, 1919, or to the loan of $5,000,000, or $2,500,000 from Peabody, Houghteling and Co." Probe Stands Adjourned. In consequence of the action taken by the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Co. to obtain an injunction against the Riddell-Latchford timber commission, the commissioners have declined to proceed further with any matters in connection with the timber investigation, pending the decision of the courts

At 2:10 to-day, when the probe should have resumed, Judge Riddell made the following statement:

"The statement has been made by counsel or someone in connection with the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Co. whose proceedings we were going on to investigate, that a writ has been placed for an injunction to prevent us from proceeding with the investigation. The injunction so far has failed. We think it would be improper for us to proceed with any part of the investigation so long as there can be any or the slightest doubt of our authority to proceed. "We shall be relieved of an exceedingly onerous and disagreeable duty, but we accepted it only as a public duty which we did not originate or desire in any way, and we think the wisest course, the most seemly course for us is to decline to go on with any part of the investigation of any kind until such time as we have an authoritative statement by a court of our powers - how far they extend and the proper course for us to pursue. It is for the people of the province of Ontario ultimately to say what shall and shall not be investigated.

May Appoint Other Commissions. "If the commission which we have does not sufficiently cover the investigation which we intended to make, then other commissions perhaps may be issued to some others and more efficient persons, or further legislation may be made if it is so desired, but as things stand now we decline to proceed with any part of the commission until such time as the matter is thoroughly investigated and threshed out in a court of Justice. We therefore rise sine die.

Justice Latchford: "This statement is made with my entire concurrence."

Justice Riddell: "I ought to say Mr. Scott has acted with perfect professional propriety."

#osgoode hall #government investigation #pulp and paper industry #spanish river #timber industry #government corruption #capitalism in canada #timber barons #lumber industry #northern ontario

[gpptraining]

Deck New York Inspiration for a large, open-air, industrial backyard deck remodel

#timber ceiling #bar #industrial #warehouse #round entry foyer