The House veterans now have competing bills folding nearly 1,600 acres in Mariposa County into the park’s boundaries. They share some ideas. They differ on key questions, including whether to offset the park’s growth by the sale of federal land elsewhere.
U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock was a tea party kind of guy before there was a tea party. He has been pandering to the extreme right and blowing off his constituents — who are mere Republicans — by failing to get behind a 1,575 acre expansion of Yosemite National Park in Mariposa County.
About 70 forest lovers and tree studiers gathered recently up at Humboldt State University to listen to two “gurus” of the old growth forest realm engage in a discussion about how forest stewardship can promote old-growth functions that benefit “climate, wildlife, water, and a sustained resource economy,” as the Pacific Forest Trust’s invitation to the lecture said.
A bill proposed in Congress that would increase logging activities in Oregon jeopardizes the Pacific Northwest’s forests’ ability to capture and store carbon dioxide, scientists argue in a new study.
Time is running out on a deal to secure the largest expansion of Yosemite National Park since 1939, and one man appears to be standing in the way: local congressman Tom McClintock.
We may not be able to avoid death or taxes, but there is a powerful tool available to Tree Farmers that provides some measure of immortality and often tax relief, too. That tool is a legal agreement known as a conservation easement, which helps ensure Tree Farmers’ hopes and dreams for their family land—and their woodland stewardship practices—will endure long after they are gone.
