Posts Tagged ‘forests’
The girl who silenced the world for five minutes
Thirteen-year old girl addresses United Nations meeting.
Udall Continues Fight for Bark-Beetle Mitigation
By Senator Mark Udall If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? How about an entire forest? Every spring and summer, the bark beetle epidemic in Colorado’s forests takes on added dimensions. Rather than the green and gold we’ve used as backdrops to family portraits and souvenir postcards, receding snows reveal new swaths of rust-red forest that have succumbed to bark beetles. Colorado is ground zero for the bark beetle epidemic, which has left millions of acres of dead and dying ... Full Story
