Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...suggests that replacingthe many stately mahoganies felled by loggers in tropical forests will notbe a simple matter. While mature mahogany trees normally grow in thick woods, she has foundno evidence that new mahogany seedlings will successfully grow in the shadeof other trees -- mahogany trees included. ...Study Demonstrates High Conservation Potential Of Logged Rainforest
...obust enough toeventually fill the gaps created by felled timber and the damage of harvestingmachinery, as well as produce the seeds that would regenerate the area, Cannonsaid. Detailed comparisons showed that areas logged just a year before had 43percent fewer different species of these smaller tre...Clemson's Baruch Forest Science Institute tracks forests' recovery from hurricane damage
...ropped into open spaces left when older trees were felled by the hurricane'sreported 100-plus mile-per-hour winds and by the rapid growth of seedlingsreleased by the creation of open spaces. A major change Gresham and other scientists have noted is that the new growth is by the"pioneer" species of pine, sw...Researchers study oldest oak east of the Mississippi
...r nearly four centuries. The region's oldest oak, felled during a 1998 storm, is one of 10 under scrutiny by environmental and plant biologists at Ohio University who do research in Dysart Woods, a university land laboratory in Belmont County in southeastern Ohio. Scientists use this information to track h...Battle to save last stronghold of the red squirrel
...eaty forest soil. Suggested plans to replace the felled trees with oak in parts of Kidland forest would also have affected the survival of the red squirrel. Broadleaf trees like oak are a source of food for the grey squirrel, which can out compete and replace the native reds. The new forest design involv...Still waters? 'Clear-cutting' robs the deep-sea of ancient treasures
... by trawling just as quickly and surely as loggers felled groves of giant redwoods," Callum M. Roberts reported today during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting. Slow-growing fish-including 200-year-old Sebastes rockfish and orange roughy known to live 150 years-nee...Professor uses satellites to protect Amazon forests, global climate
...vironmental Sciences. Only a small portion of this felled wood becomes harvested timber; the rest turns to waste. Selective logging dominates current landscape use in Brazil and is also among the biggest threats to the global environment. At the same time, people involved in the timbering process - clearing...