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Another excellent article on the hydrological effects of clearcut logging. Be sure to take the time to watch the video featuring UBC forest hydrologist Younis Alila. Alila and his colleagues have transformed the way we analyze logging impacts on floods, drought, mass wasting, and sediment delivery to streams from logging operations.

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A vast, sprawling clearcut on a hillside, lightly covered in snow
The Narwhal · Trouble in the Headwaters: new film links clearcuts to B.C. floods | The NarwhalWatch Trouble in the Headwaters, a short documentary about the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging and its connection to B.C. floods

Another excellent article on the hydrological effects of clearcut logging. Be sure to take the time to watch the video featuring UBC forest hydrologist Younis Alila. Alila and his colleagues have transformed the way we analyze logging impacts on floods, drought, mass wasting, and sediment delivery to streams from logging operations.

Hiking to historic and scenic Calpine Lookout

While in Northern California for a wedding, we decided to hike up to one of the classic wooden wildfire lookout towers of the state. Calpine Lookout, situated in Tahoe National Forest since 1934 is simply lovely. The white clapboard structure sits gracefully at the summit of the 5,980 foot mountain.

View from Calpine Lookout

The 17-foot tall tower was constructed for the U.S. Forest Service by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression and is now available for overnight stays. When unoccupied, a walk around the second level exterior gangplank allows a wonderful and informative first hand glimpse into the living conditions of Forest Service Lookout personnel.

The surrounding scenery is spectacular with one exception. Logging is taking place on a portion of Calpine’s access drive and it degrades the otherwise glorious experience. Approximately one-third of the hike to the summit along is spent looking at fallen and stacked trees, as well as disturbed vegetation. All one could think of while trekking past this was John Steinbeck’s famous pondrance of “why progress looks so much like destruction?”

Fortunately, at the summit, no such work is taking place, so the historic setting remains as it has been for many decades. Mother Nature has graced this historic site and hopefully both she and Father Time will continue to bless it for many decades yet to come. Peace!

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The #Trump administration is moving to strip federal protections for millions of acres of #Alaska 's pristine wilderness to allow oil #drilling and #mining in one of the nation's last untouched regions.

While touring an oil field near the #ArcticOcean, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and EPA head Lee Zeldin praised Trump's push to expand #oil and #gas drilling, mining and #logging in Alaska,

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Between Dec 2024 and March 2025, 362 #wolves were killed by #government
contractors—an alarming spike from 248 the year before.

For nearly a decade, wolves have been scapegoated as part of B.C.’s #caribou
recovery strategy—even as #logging continues in critical caribou #habitat.

But there’s a glimmer of hope: B.C. Timber Sales just paused logging in a portion of core caribou habitat near #Revelstoke following public pressure.

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#SaveBCwolves #PacificWild
#CaribouRecoveryProgram