A Sweden-born furniture seller, inspired by a hut he stumbled across while walking in nature, has built himself a dugout wooden shelter in the forest. From start to finish he worked alone, and the impressive solo project has become his private haven. Alex Wild, 36, owns his own business selling furniture for homes and offices….
VIDEO: Man Builds Impressive Dugout Wooden Shelter in the Forest—’Life Is Unity With Nature’
Gorillas Recognize Human Friends After 12 Years
Absolutely touching! The gorillas seem so sad to see them leave. (Video courtesy of The Aspinall Foundation.) …
Swath of Boreal Forest Twice the Size of Toronto to Be Protected in Northern Ontario
The largest private land conservation project in Canadian history is unfolding in northern Ontario. The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent the last year negotiating the purchase of 1,450 square kilometres of the boreal forest near Hearst, Ont., from a pulp and paper company. The company, Domtar, hasn’t harvested in the region for more than a…
Forest Bathing
February 28, 2022
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How many times have you gone out walking only to find that you’ve somehow reached your destination while completely missing the journey? You hardly remember the walk itself because you were too immersed in thinking about trials and tribulations past or future. You missed the way the light played with the trees as they swayed…
Lost in the BC Woods for 74 Days, Bear Henry Thankful to Forestry Workers’ Rescue
VICTORIA—Bear Henry says they survived more than 70 days stuck in a camper van on a remote Vancouver Island mountain forest road with only a few days’ worth of canned beans, raw rice, cat food and melted snow. Henry said Friday they are about 30 kilograms lighter than when they left Victoria Nov. 27 to…
Raising a Forest by Hand
“The hills bear all manner of fantastic shapes,” Charles Bessey observed, noting that they sometimes featured open pockets of bare sand in blowouts and were “provokingly steep and high.” Bessey was describing the Sandhills, the area of post-glacial dunes wrought by mighty winds in north-central and northwestern Nebraska. Aided by his botany students from the…
Forest ‘Resilience’ May Translate to Fewer Trees: Study
January 24, 2022
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Scientists studying forest density in the Sierra Nevada have found that trees there were scarcer but physically larger in 1911 than in 2011, meaning that “resilient” forests could be remarkably thin by today’s standards. “Our findings suggest forests need to be treated more intensively than is often done when just reducing fuels, particularly greater reductions…
Logging and the Art of Gardening
January 3, 2022
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“I love trees,” said the forester. His name is Cliff Foster, and I believe him. But how does that square with the environmentalists’ view that foresters and loggers are chain-saw-wielding tree slashers who are only a few generations away from J. R. R. Tolkien’s orcs? My view of loggers wasn’t that extreme, especially since my…
Forests in Southern California Reopening Tonight
ARCADIA, Calif.—The Angeles National Forest will end its forest closure order tonight at 11:59 p.m., one week past the expiration of the California regional closure, authorities said. The forest will also lower its fire danger level from Critical to Extreme, which continues to ban any use of any open-flame or certain spark-emitting equipment, according to…
Massive Forest Fire in Greece Still Burning for 7th Day
ATHENS, Greece—Firefighters and residents battled a massive forest fire on Greece’s second largest island for a seventh day Monday, fighting to save what they can from flames that have decimated vast tracts of pristine forest, destroyed homes and businesses, and sent thousands fleeing. The smoke and ash from the fire on Evia, a rugged island…
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