Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month’s Biggest Story You Never Read

 

Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month’s Biggest Story You Never Read By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com Posted on November 16, 2011, Printed on November 26, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/153092/game_over_for_planet_earth%3A_the_month%E2%80%99s_biggest_story_you_never_read

 

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Tracking wildlife to preserve habitat

 

The Sky Island Alliance Tracking Program Makes a Difference

Shar Porier

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Climate Change Causing Massive Movement of Tree Species Across the West

ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2011)

"Ecosystems are always changing at the landscape level, but normally the rate of change is too slow for humans to notice," said Steven Running, the University of Montana Regents Professor and a . . . → Read More: Climate Change Causing Massive Movement of Tree Species Across the West

Snow before Thanksgiving!

Yep.  We likely had about 3 inches of snow last night.  I chickened out of the trail maintenance on Bear Wallow…Long underwear in Cruces and I have to get to Tucson tomorrow for an event.

Russ will want warm soup when he gets back…cold and wet from wearing jeans in the snow.

The reality of cattle grazing

This short video clip is quite revealing.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v9TU50vw10

Bear Wallow Trail Project….

PLEASE JOIN US! Bear Wallow Trail Maintenance in the Bear Wallow Wilderness Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest November 5, 2011

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Skeletons of Yellowstone wolves tell interesting tales

 

Some wolves hunted and lived after severe injuries-

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Chopping Down Trees to Save Forests

 

 

Chopping Down Trees to Save Forests

By SEAN PATRICK FARRELL

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/chopping-down-trees-to-save-forests/

Sean Patrick Farrell/The New York TimesJim Pitts, a Forest Service specialist, surveyed the devastation wrought by the Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona this year. Nearly a half-million acres burned.

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Forest structure and health

Forest structure, services and biodiversity may be lost even as form remains

 One study outlines services and functions that are disappearing in mountain ash forests in Australia, and a commentary in the journal pointed out that many of the same issues are in play in forests . . . → Read More: Forest structure and health

Saving animals benefits everyone

"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius."

Edward O. Wilson

Harvard biologist

You may never see a black-footed ferret. Or a Mexican gray wolf. Or a California condor.

 

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