Media
Wild Heritage In the News
January 2022 - March 2022
Scientists call for stepped up protections of primary forests on the Tongass for their climate and biodiversity values –https://grist.org/project/accountability/tongass-national-forest-roadless-rule-loophole/
Nearly 100 scientists call on the BC government to protect primary forests –
Covered by The Globe and Mail and Canada Press and NRDC
READ LETTER
Dr. DellaSala’s Testimony on Wildfires and Climate Change –
https://wild-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DellaSalaHouseEnvironmenttestimonyv2-3-11-22.pdf/
Protecting the Tongass rainforest in Alaska –
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/tongass-national-forest-old-growth-tree-climate/
Logging controversy over wildfires in eastern Oregon –
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/climate/fire-forest-management-bootleg-oregon.html
October 2021 - December 2021
Speaking truth to power –
https://kboo.fm/media/105223-speaking-truth-power
Climate Summit misses the mark on US forests –
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-deforestation-old-growth-forests-cop26_n_61841ea9e4b06de3eb726e8a
COP26 not doing enough on forests –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/as-fossil-fuel-use-surges-will-cop26-protect-forests-to-slow-climate-change/
US forests hold climate keys –
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/581612-us-forests-hold-climate-keys
COP26 Glascow Declaration –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/cop26-glasgow-declaration-salvation-or-threat-to-earths-forests/
End to logging of older US forests –
https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2021-11-01/tue-8-am-rogue-valley-scientist-proposes-an-end-to-logging-of-older-u-s-forests
July 2021 - September 2021
Increased logging endangers BC rainforests –
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/interior-wet-belt-interior-temperate-rainforest-1.5800915
Why old growth is an ally in fighting climate change –
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/why-old-growth-forests-are-an-ally-in-fighting-climate-change-1.6088794
BC’s rate inland rainforest nearing imminent collapse –
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-old-growth-inland-rainforest-study-2021/
Biden to restore roadless protections on Tongass –
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/climate/tongass-roadless-rule-alaska.html
Pacific Northwest old growth hold climate keys –
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/old-growth-forests-of-pacific-northwest-could-be-key-to-climate-action/
Rebuilding burned towns better –
https://www.mailtribune.com/guest-opinion/2021/09/05/what-ive-learned-as-a-talent-resident-a-year-after-almeda/
Almeda fire – one year later –
https://www.sopbs.org/programs/locally-produced/local-focus/local-focus-almeda-fire/
April 2021 - June 2021
Tongass rainforest lungs of North America –
https://www.ktoo.org/2021/04/01/tongass-holds-more-than-40-of-all-carbon-stored-by-national-forests/
Tongass rainforest is globally unique –
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/04/26/indigenous-peoples-have-always-known-the-tongass-is-our-lifeblood-new-research-confirms-it/
BC forests are white rhino of old growth –
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/british-columbia-poised-to-lose-white-rhino-of-old-growth-forests/
January 2021 - March 2021
Year of fires –
https://kboo.fm/media/100014-year-fires
Destruction of world’s forests increased in 2020 –
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/31/destruction-of-worlds-forests-increased-sharply-in-2020-loss-tree-cover-tropical