Hacker News with Generative AI: Forestry

The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico (elpais.com)
In English, the Japanese concept satoyama translates as “village” and “mountain.” These are rural environments where communities manage forests and farmland based on a sustainable system, harnessing their resources without harming them, in a kind of sacred pact between humans and nature for living in harmony.
Forestry, Sustainability, Japan, Mexico, Environmentalism
89 points by geox 42 days ago | 3 comments
Proforestation: The case for leaving trees alone (mongabay.com)
In a quiet corner of northern New York state, the white pines of the Adirondack Forest Preserve rise like sentinels, untouched for more than 125 years. Their silence speaks volumes.
Environmentalism, Conservation, Forestry, New York
15 points by PaulHoule 66 days ago | 0 comments
Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging (apnews.com)
President Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.
Environment, Politics, Forestry, Climate Change, Government
15 points by pmags 81 days ago | 1 comments
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 115 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 117 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 124 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 182 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 369 days ago | 141 comments