In the heart of Cambodia is the most important waterbird zone in mainland Southeast Asia. At Prek Toal, just-hatched chicks peep in deafening high tones, while larger birds take off, land, and perform mid-air acrobatics. Many rare and endangered birds make their home here, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the edge of Tonle Sap, SoutheastContinue reading “Poachers to Rangers”
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Cities Adopt Green Tops
When the elevator stops on the top floor of some of the world’s newest downtown skyscrapers, the occupants may be in for a surprise. Before them may be a field of waving native grasses and a stunning display of wildflowers. Birds chirp, and butterflies go about their business without even noticing they are in midtownContinue reading “Cities Adopt Green Tops”
Protecting Forests, Enriching People
While rampant illegal logging takes place around them, two indigenous communities in Nicaragua have banned together to harvest wood in a sustainable manner and to act as a buffer for Nicaragua’s largest protected area. Indigenous people own and manage more than 54,000 acres adjoining the 1.8 million-acre Bosaws Reserve. With help from conservation groups, theyContinue reading “Protecting Forests, Enriching People”
Letters to the Editor
A Distorted Picture of Canadian Forests Alison Berry?s article about Canadian forest management (?Timber Tenures,? March 2005) takes a somewhat truncated view of the situation?giving us all of the good but none of the bad. There are some very large downsides to the timber lease and tenure structures, and those pitfalls have causedContinue reading “Letters to the Editor”
Cows, Canoes, and Condos: Blending the Old West with the New
The American West’s relationship to natural resources has moved from extraction toward protection. But this shift has led to acrimony and gridlock.
Governing U.S. Fisheries with IFQs
A Summary Full Text PDF By Donald R. Leal More than one-fourth of the major U.S. fisheries are either overfished or are being fished unsustainably. Congress is getting ready to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the law governing our nation’s fisheries. Although some provisions are controversial, the authorization of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) is not. IFQsContinue reading “Governing U.S. Fisheries with IFQs”
Selling unused federal land a good idea
Seattle Post-Intelligencer April 11, 2006 By Holly L. Fretwell Guest Columnist Isn’t it great to sell your junk at a yard sale, ridding your home of the stuff that no longer fits your lifestyle but just takes up space? Yard sales illustrate the beauty of markets: Both partners benefit. The buyer gets something new; theContinue reading “Selling unused federal land a good idea”
Environmental Reputation
Does a firm’s pollution harm its reputation? You might think so, but recent research by Jonathan Karpoff, John Lott Jr., and Eric Wehrly argues otherwise.
Green Chips
Deep in the heart of Texas one of America’s leading technology firms is just putting the final touches on one of the nation’s greenest buildings. A new fabrication plant that produces the wafers used in semiconductors has been built for 30 percent less than an older plant constructed in the early 1990s. It also promisesContinue reading “Green Chips”
The Upside Of Logging
A recent issue of Audubon magazine arrived with a somewhat unexpected message on the front: “Log Your Land.” Needless to say, the article contained a few qualifiers rather than simply suggesting landowners dash into the woods with their chainsaws. It focused on rural areas of New York state where land that had once been clearedContinue reading “The Upside Of Logging”