We have a logging program in America's public forests that liquidates billions of dollars of public assets, costs billions in taxpayer subsidies, and creates billions in downstream damage by increasing flooding and landslides, decimating fisheries, and fouling water supplies, and the only thing that the TOP 25 national environmental organizations could muster the imagination to do was ask for a cut in the federal road building budget - which, incidentally, they failed to accomplish. I'll bet the timber barons and their army of lobbyists would be quivering in trepidation if they weren't busy stifling yawns. The Loss of Ecological Reason and Moral Restraint. The Real Threat to Forest Health . For more ConsBio linx in addition to this page, see Page 1 and Page 2 and the Activist Page .
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity. McWhite reviews ecological processes in the timberline ecotone . McWhite on Tree Islands in the alpine environment. A fallacious basis for sport hunting . Ken Towle on The Role of Ecological Conservation in Biodiversity Conservation .