In a very unique new study (put together by Austin Troy and Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne of the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and J. Morgan Grove of the USDA Forest Service’s Research Division), research suggests that urban tree coverage in Baltimore serves as a deterrent to robbery, burglary, theft, and shooting. [...]
Archive for the ‘Forestry’ Category
16 Jun
More Murders over Illegal Logging in the Amazon
The heartbreaking news came yesterday that a young peasant activist in Brazil was murdered over an ongoing illegal logging conflict in the Amazon. Obede Loyla Souza’s death marked the fifth logging-related murder in the region in only a month. According to the Associated Press, the Brazilian government is taking “a series of measures to contain [...]
31 May
A Sliver of an Exemption Left in Silviculture Rule
40 CFR 122.27 (the EPA’s “silviculture rule”) exempts from NPDES permitting all discharges from silvicultural (forestry) activities such as thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, or road construction and maintenance resulting from natural runoff. But recent opinions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have restricted the [...]
