Tag: forest
group name: tws
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October 23, 2006 12:41 AM EDT --
'Harmony with the land and the sea has never eluded the people of the central Pacific's largest island -- when they haven't been used and swindled by the world's industrial colonizers . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Please join me in congratulating Barb W. for winning a copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Barb won the book in the random drawing held this afternoon.
I only . . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:18 AM EDT --
-- or at least write about it by 3 p.m. EST today ---right now you stand a 1 in 14 chance of getting a free copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest, a coffee-table book from . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Take time to notice your fine-feathered friends on Saturday, May 12. It's International Migratory Bird Day. The theme for 2007 couldn't be more appropriate -- Birds in a Changing Climate. . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
An Excerpt from
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest
Story by Lisa Gensheimer, Photographs by Ed Bernik
© 2006 Forest Press
Linda Ordiway knows the songs of the forest by . . . more
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October 03, 2006 07:09 AM EDT --
A New Pact to Save Guatemala's Tropical Forests
$24 Million of Guatemala's Debt Now Slated for Conservation
The Nature Conservancy has facilitated one of the largest debt-for-nature swaps in history . . . more
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August 11, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
More than 300,000 acres of national forest and up to a half million acres of other public lands would be sold if Congress goes along with two proposals in President Bush's 2007 budget. Both ideas have . . . more
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October 27, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
For Immediate Release:
Feds Plan to Mothball Nation's First Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge System Funding Reaches Crisis Point
October 26, 2006 – A federal plan made public today . . . more
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October 27, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
Grand Mesa Slopes, Colorado
What's at stake?
The Grand Mesa Slopes tower stunningly above the Grand Valley in western Colorado. The area is home to a great diversity of forest types and wildlife habitat, . . . more
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April 10, 2007 06:13 PM EDT --
Last week, in an outrageous decision to speed up the process for industrial wind farms, the lawmakers in Maryland voted to eliminate environmental reviews concerning the potential impact . . . more
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October 16, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
Largest debt-for-nature swap ever yields $26M for Costa Rica's forestsThe Nature Conservancy has brokered the largest debt-for-nature swap in history — a deal that will secure long-term, science-based . . . more
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January 20, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
Conservation 2.0: Curbing Deforestation to Slow Climate Change
By Bill Stanley
Director, Global Climate Change Initiative, The Nature Conservancy
My Uncle John — who’s in his sixties — . . . more
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October 24, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
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Bridger-Teton National Forest's Wyoming Range, Wyoming
What's At Stake?
With spectacular mountain meadows, blue-ribbon trout streams . . . more
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October 31, 2006 10:22 AM EST --
Utah's Redrock Wilderness
What's at Stake?
Although much of Utah remains wild today, only approximately 1 million acres of this vast state are protected as wilderness. Citizens have identified . . . more
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November 16, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Clear Fork Divide, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The wild peaks and deep forests of western Colorado—areas like the Clear Fork Divide region–helped inspire the country's first Wilderness . . . more
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January 20, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
Conservation 2.0: Biofuels, Yes -- But Not At The Expense of Forests
By William Ginn
Director, Global Forest Partnership, The Nature Conservancy
The world is eager for solutions to climate change and . . . more
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August 15, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
North Slope Oil Development: Air and Water Pollution, Spills, and Sprawl
Three decades of oil industry public relations have drilled away at one familiar theme that belies the reality on the ground: that . . . more
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November 02, 2006 02:48 PM EST --
Roan Plateau, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The towering and spectacularly lush Roan Plateau is located just northwest of Rifle, Colorado. Rising precipitously 3,500 feet above the Colorado River valley, . . . more
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November 03, 2006 11:31 AM EST --
Vermillion Basin, Colorado
What's at Stake?
Visitors to Colorado's wild canyon country can gaze across panoramic vistas of glowing redrock, discover hidden canyons, and walk for miles across . . . more
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