Treehuggers International

Treehuggers International Heading to Sacramento for Parks Advocacy Day

Treehuggers International is heading to Sacramento on March 8th to put in a little face time with California state legislators to not only encourage lawmakers to keep California State Parks open, but to reject a proposal to eliminate public funding for parks with funding from controversial offshore oil drilling projects which may never be approved.

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Federal Court Halts Timber Suit In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

In a victory for old-growth forests on public land, a federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a timber industry coalition which would have led to additional logging of old-growth areas in the Tongass National Forest, a 1,000-mile arc of temperate rainforest along Alaska’s southeast coast containing some of the most intact, oxygen-generating and climate-regualting forest on the planet.

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David Edelson from the Wilderness Society

The Regional Director for the California and Nevada office of the Wilderness Society discusses current initiatives in the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains, and in northern San Diego County.

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Solar vs. Wilderness In Mojave Desert Protection Act

There are a zillion places in Southern California where solar farms can be developed other than areas proposed for wilderness designation, like the roof of every massive warehouse and industrial park from the Inland Empire to the Coachella Valley, or the tens of thousands of acres of desert outside of cities and recreation, conservation, and military areas.

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