Hacker News with Generative AI: Forestry

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber (theguardian.com)
Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.
Environment, Politics, Forestry, Endangered Species
31 points by inverted_flag 29 days ago | 8 comments
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests (nytimes.com)
President Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log.
Politics, Environment, Forestry, National Parks
16 points by bryanrasmussen 30 days ago | 5 comments
Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive (kansalliskirjasto.fi)
For a long time, public discussion on forests has been marked by the issue of defining limits for the economic exploitation of Finnish forests. The National Library of Finland has preserved forest-focused discussions on the internet spanning several years.
Environmentalism, Finland, Archives, Public Discourse, Forestry
26 points by gnabgib 38 days ago | 2 comments
What happened to the American chestnut tree? (npr.org)
In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating.
Environmental Issues, Ecology, History, Forestry, Disease
6 points by rbanffy 96 days ago | 0 comments
US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban (opb.org)
Environmental Policy, Forestry, Logging, Conservation
164 points by geox 283 days ago | 141 comments