Complete List of Forest Protection Resources

Let Them Grow song about saving old-growth trees, Dan Zales, composer and lead musician. Lyrics: “Let them grow, let them be, let them live for eternity… Nature work your magic ways, trees deserve another day.”

Climate Chaos & the Quabbin Woodlands, song by Don Ogden

An inconvenient woodpecker video, wildlife after fires, Maya Khosla, 2021

How Trees Bring Water, Andrew Millison, YouTube

The biotic pump: how forests create rain, Jimi Sol, YouTube

Climate Change: The Water Paradigm, Carbon flowing through mycorrhizal fungi (real time), SPUN, YouTube

Why Biodiversity is important, California Academy of Sciences, YouTube

 

Crown Jewels, Alex Haraus, YouTube 

The return of old growth forests, New England Forests (Ed Faison, Anastassia Makarieva), YouTube

Understanding the science, Ep. 7: Giant Sequoia Reproduction in High-Severity Fire Areas, The John Muir Project (Chad Hanson, et. al), YouTube

Why trees matter for green development, TreesPG, 5/24

Clips from Burnedthemovie.com

Why Recent Wildfires are the Salvation of Giant Sequoia Groves, Forest Protection Forum (Chad Hanson), YouTube, January 2024

 

Recent Articles & Reports on Forests: 

Report of the Climate Forestry Committee: Recommendations for Climate-Oriented Forest Management Guidelines, January 2024

The climate impacts of industrial forest practices, John Talberth

 

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary), Mongabay, 5/24/24

Study: Climate (Not Humans) Shaped Early Forests of New England, Harvard Forest, 1/21/20

Habitat fragmentation leads to species loss, 2020

Indirect effects of habitat loss via habitat fragmentation, Püttker et. al, 2020

How Clean Energy Tax Breaks Could Fuel a US Wood Burning Boom, Inside Climate News, March 15, 2024

Western States and Industry Groups Unite to Block BLM’s Conservation Priority Land
Rule,
Inside Climate News, July 26, 2024

The West Act is the latest effort to stymie the rule that would put conservation on
equal footing with mining, oil and gas development, grazing and other uses.
 

Estimates of Carbon Stored in Harvested Wood Products from the United States Forest Service Northern Region, 1906-2010

Complete List of Proforestation Articles:

Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good, Moomaw, Masino, Faison, 2019

Growing existing forests essential in mitigating global crises, Tufts, Moomaw, 8/2019

Adaptation and mitigation capacity of wildland forests in the northeastern United States, Edward Faison, et.al., May 28/23

Recent Articles on Old Growth Forests:

Creating Strategic Reserves to Protect Forest Carbon and Reduce Biodiversity Losses in the United States,  Law, et al., 5/22

Native Insects and Mature Forests, Climate Forests

Mature trees are fire resistant, Climate Forests