A new study says climate’s impact on forest resilience is negative in tropical, arid and temperate forests, but positive in boreal forests. In related news: biobased products result in reduced oil consumption; ENGOs say logging reduces US forest carbon by one-third; and 1000+ firefighters fail to contain Yosemite wildfire. In other Forestry news: arrests continue as Fairy Creek protest camps re-emerge; and the Barred Owl threatens to eat the Spotted Owl out of its house and home.
In Business news: WTO awards Canada the right to impose some retaliatory duties on US imports; Canadian manufacturers hurt by rising material costs; US remodelling market declines in Q2; US housing starts remain strong despite recession fears; and forestlands are a safe haven given inflationary times.
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Blockades in the Fairy Creek area were on hold in winter and spring due to dangerous weather conditions in the remote mountains around protest camps. Joshua Wright, an environmentalist who has been raising awareness about old-growth logging on Vancouver Island, says the camps are being re-occupied but it’s difficult because of the RCMP. “Fairy Creek is essentially a fortress if anyone does any action, there RCMP crack down really hard, the industry is blocking all of the gates, to get into Fairy Creek without trespassing into worksite you essentially have to walk a 40 km round trip,” he said. …Teal-Jones, a Surrey-based logging company, has a revenue-sharing agreement with Pacheedaht First Nation. Last year it secured an injunction against the blockades in Tree Farm Licence 46, which covers a large area of southern Vancouver Island.
The persistence and functionality of forest ecosystems are highly dependent on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations. This capacity is defined as their resilience. Experimental evidence of sudden increases in tree mortality across different biomes throughout much of the Americas and in Europe is raising concerns about variation in forest resilience. In a new study led by JRC and 
Everybody’s heard about the importance of protecting the Amazon rainforest. But when it comes to protecting forests here in the United States, a lot of people in business, government and the environmental movement seem to have a willful ignorance. That needs to change. …We must end government policies shaped by the logging and wood products industries that sound sensible but are actually meant to expand logging, rather than contain it. …Forests are the only proven, large-scale system we have for soaking up carbon and locking it away for centuries. But logging is slashing U.S. forests’ ability to accumulate carbon by over one-third. …And now comes the Save Our Sequoias Act, which the wood-pellet giant Enviva has tweeted that it’s proud to “co-sponsor,” and which the nation’s richest and largest environmental organization, The Nature Conservancy, supports.
LISBON, Portugal — A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain, Croatia and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander Andre Fernandes said multiple fires have caused the evacuation of more than 600 people. …The European heat wave is also sparking flames in Spain and France — and in Turkey at the other end of the Mediterranean. More than 800 firefighters battled two wildfires in the region outside Bordeaux in southwest France, according to the regional emergency service. …Fuelled by strong winds, fires raged along Croatia’s Adriatic Sea coast as well. …In southwestern Turkey, a blaze erupted close to the village of Mesudiye, near the Aegean Sea resort of Datca.