Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Older Trees and Oxygen

Interesting fact:

if you make a comparison with an oak tree of 100 years of age, then 2,563 young trees of the same kind are needed to produce as much oxygen as the full-grown tree.

source:  https://gregdougall.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/how-many-young-trees-replace-the-oxygen-output-of-a-100-year-old-oak-tree/

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

County Meetings Regarding Proposed Timber Sales - Boulder Creek



Good afternoon community leaders,

Please share with your members and anyone who may be interested the attached public meeting notices regarding timber sales.

Thank you!
Barbara

Barbara Smolak | Public and Government Affairs
Clackamas County | 2051 Kaen Road | Oregon City, OR 97045
503.655.8552 | barbarasmo@clackamas.us




Clackamas County Forest Public Meeting

Clackamas County Forest Program is hosting a general information meeting to present plans for a timber sale on County property at the end of Country Club Road south of Hwy 26 in the Brightwood area.  The sale is planned to be 2 units of regeneration harvest; each is about 85 acres in size.  The public meeting will be held at The Resort at the Mountain in Welches, OR at 7:00 PM on April 24.  Call Dan Green, County Forester, at 503 742 4425 for more information, or visit http://www.clackamas.us/forests.





Clackamas County Forest Public Tour

Clackamas County Forest Program is hosting a tour of the proposed Boulder timber sale at
10 AM on May 3, 2014.  Parking will be available at the Clackamas County rock pit, 400 feet west of the intersection of N. Boulder Road and E. Barlow Trail Road in Brightwood, OR. Participants will be shuttled to the sale in County vans.  The Boulder sale will be a regeneration harvest consisting of two units of about 85 acres each.  Call Dan Green, County Forester, at
503 742 4425 for more information, or visit http://www.clackamas.us/forests and click on the link for the 2014 Boulder Timber Harvest Plan.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Judge approves massive Mt Hood logging


Judge approves massive Mt Hood logging

###Breaking News###
 
This is the Collawash River in Mt. Hood National Forest. It's home to Chinook salmon, Bagby Hot Springs, and it provides drinking water to Oregonians.
This is the toe of an "earthflow," a very deep and slow moving landslide, in the Collawash River watershed. Notice the crooked trees.
Slopes in the Collawash River watershed collapse abruptly.

 
In 2010, the Forest Service proposed building roads and logging thousands of acres in this watershed, including the tops of multiple earthflows.
Bark volunteers dedicated over 600 hours to groundtruthing the proposal and documenting the damage that would come with logging 2,000 acres of forest and constructing 11 miles of road. Notice the overlap between the pink "units" and the Collawash's tributaries.
Despite protests by thousands of Oregonians, the Forest Service went ahead and sold the rights to log the Jazz Timber Sale to Interfor, the Canadian-based timber company.
Bark sued.
On Friday, a federal judge sided with the Forest Service, which wants the public to trust that the impacts of logging will be minimal. And that the logging company, Interfor, will use "Best Management Practices" to make everything okay.
But Bark caught Interfor breaking the rules before, like when it cut this 172-year-old tree...

We lost our lawsuit, but that doesn't mean we give up. While Bark's attorneys consider appealing the ruling, we need you to do three things:
  1. Send a letter to the editor of the Oregonian newspaper. 
  2. Like Bark on Facebook for photos and updates
  3. Donate to Bark.
Groundtruthing Jazz was 100% member-supported.
Learn more about this special place and meet the people who are dedicated to protecting it by joining Bark at the Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne) in Portland: Monday, April 28th, 5pm-8pm. Details TBA.
Or take a trip to Jazz with Bark Sunday, April 27th, 9am-5pm. Click for details. This special field trip will celebrate the wildness of the Collawash River watershed while giving attendees a chance to give something back. Come prepared to help document the forest as it stands, before logging begins.
I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Russ Plaeger, Program Director
Special Thanks- Bark hired hydrologist Jon Rhodes to provide expert analysis of the impacts of the proposed logging and attorney David Becker to support Bark's staff attorney throughout the legal process. Both of them provide Bark with deep discounts on their work, and we are very grateful.

If you prefer to mail a check, please make checks payable to "Bark", PO Box 12065, Portland, OR 97212

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Your cellphone is killing you: What people don’t want you to know about electromagnetic fields


he industry doesn't want to admit it, but the science is becoming clearer: Sustained EMF exposure is dangerous




You may not realize it, but you are participating in an unauthorized experiment—“the largest biological experiment ever,” in the words of Swedish neuro-oncologist Leif Salford. For the first time, many of us are holding high-powered microwave transmitters—in the form of cell phones—directly against our heads on a daily basis.
Cell phones generate electromagnetic fields (EMF), and emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR). They share this feature with all modern electronics that run on alternating current (AC) power (from the power grid and the outlets in your walls) or that utilize wireless communication. Different devices radiate different levels of EMF, with different characteristics.
What health effects do these exposures have?
Therein lies the experiment.
The many potential negative health effects from EMF exposure (including many cancers and Alzheimer’s disease) can take decades to develop. So we won’t know the results of this experiment for many years—possibly decades. But by then, it may be too late for billions of people.

the rest of the article and a link to the book, http://www.salon.com/2014/04/12/your_cellphone_is_killing_you_what_people_dont_want_you_to_know_about_electromagnetic_fields/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow