On a rainy Friday this month, industry executives and government officials were sitting on the fourth floor of a Vancouver casino hotel. From the stage, a pitch for the future of forestry was on repeat: what if logging companies could be the heroes who saved British Columbia from wildfires?
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The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, which oversee most of the nation’s Mature Old Growth forests, continue to defy overwhelming public support for protection, scientific calls for a moratorium on logging, and the presidents’ initial direction to develop conservation options for Mature Old Growth forests. Instead, these agencies are now targeting the last, best
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Word choice matters. Getting others to use words of your choosing is a powerful method of influencing not only their speech, but their thinking. George Orwell observed: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” With this in mind, what would you call a public works project to cut down hundreds of trees and […]