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See also Biodiversity, Third World Development (including Latin America, Asia, as well as Africa) and , Global Warming, and believe it or not, Fire as well as Food and Water and their linkages.

News

News Sites

Yale's Environment 360 has good recent articles.

Inside Climate News

Stories

World’s Fifth-Largest Tree Now Safe From Loggers in an 'Inspiring Outpouring of Generosity' California 1/20.

Planting Billions of Trees Is the 'Best Climate Change Solution Available Today,' Study Finds from Eco-Watch 11/19.

World’s Fifth-Largest Tree Now Safe From Loggers in an 'Inspiring Outpouring of Generosity' California 1/20.

The Amazon fires are raging. This excerpt from Tony Juniper's Rainforest will help you understand what the world is losing. Read Chapter 4: Evolutionary Treasures 9/19 see Wildfires

Earth's Intact Forests Are Invaluable, and in Danger 3/18.

This Is What the Planet Would Be Like Without Trees: The Earth is losing a forest area the size of Panama every year 1/18.

China's government announced plans for a major reforestation project. The country aims to grow about 6.66 million hectares of new forests this year, an area roughly the size of Ireland. 1/18.

Amazon Deforestation Linked to McDonald's, Other Retail Food Giants: Large-scale agribusiness operations clear large swathes of native forest to make way for soy plantations. See Food.

Your Cellphone Could Be Part of an Illegal Charcoal Trade That's Destroying Tropical Forests:A massive illicit trade between Myanmar and China is feeding a multimillion-dollar industry. 11/17.

Our addiction palm oil is decimating wildlife and threatening food security 10/17

'Genetic Rescue' May Be the Secret to Saving This Iconic Tree 9/17.

Climate Impacts Double U.S. Forest Fires. See Fire 10/16.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is pleased to announce the Winner of the 2016 Fuller Challenge: the Rainforest Solutions Project (RSP), a collaborative effort between three environmental organizations, which played a critical role in developing one of the most extraordinary approaches to conservation, social justice, and indigenous rights in recent memory, resulting in a historically unprecedented multigenerational agreement. See Entrepreneurship 10/16.

800,000 People Attempt to Plant 50 Million Trees to Break Guinness World Record 7/16.

Norway Becomes World’s First Country to Ban Deforestation

When good forests go bad - an obituary for California oak trees 5/16

20 Years in the Making, Great Bear Agreement Protects World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest. The landmark deal between 27 First Nations, environmentalists, forest industry and government preserves 85 percent of old-growth in one of the world’s great forests. 4/17

Palm Oil Scorecard: Find Out Which Brands Are (and aren’t) Helping Save Indonesia’s Rainforests orangutans 3/16

The secret weapon in the fight against tedium–trees.

UCSC Study documents drought's impact on redwood forest ferns 1/16.

NEW ESTIMATE: EARTH HAS 3 TRILLION TREES 9/15.

OMG Bay Area forest clearcut: The largest San Francisco Bay Area forest clearcut in 100 years will begin in August. An estimated 450,000 healthy, mature trees in the Oakland and Berkeley hills and county parklands will be cut down and chopped into logs and piles of wood chips. In an additional effort to publicize the plan and rally the SF Bay Area community, the environmental art project, The TreeSpirit Project, will host a community rally and make an art photograph with attendees on July 18 2015 at 7 a.m.

Some progress at G-7 on climate and forests. 6/15.

Indonesia palm oil deforestation 5/15. but good news.

6,000 Acres of our Old Growth Alaska Forests Slated for Logging, the Largest Sale in Decades 4/15.

Chopsticks and paper cups use considerable trees.

Only Two Big Patches of Intact Forest Left on Earth the Amazon and the Congo.

Epic Urban Treehouse Offers Glimpse Into Future Living.

Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing. 3/15. See Fire.

Eco-hero Chico Mendez's cousin carries on the fight 8/14.

How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife and Destroys Communities 7/14.

Is Palm Oil Explosion Driving Ebola Outbreak? 10/14.

Major Palm Oil Companies Accused of Breaking Ethical Promises The growing global demand for palm oil has fuelled a massive expansion of plantations across the forests of southeast Asia and Africa but concerns have been growing for over a decade about the resulting environmental and social impacts.

Deforestation is promoting the spread of a disease called Nipah virus in Bangladesh. The virus has no cure, no vaccine — and a mortality rate of more than 70 percent. 5/14.

An American Cowboy Fights for the Amazon and Its People 5/14. See Latin America.

Slothageddon 4/14.

Building Better Forests: Scientists in Wisconsin are drawing on both new research and traditional Native American knowledge to create forests that will be more resilient in the face of climate change. See Native Americans.

Real-time deforestation map by Google and WRI (goes back 14 years).

Brazil weakens rainforest protection, losses up 25%. 11/13.

Deforestation in Asia.

New map shows how gold-obsessed libertarians are screwing up the rainforest.

Millions of acres of rainforest habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia are destroyed to plant giant industrial palm oil plantations in response to increasing market demands. RAN calls these destructive palm oil products "conflict palm oil." Only an estimated 60,600 orangutans exist on earth today, and they are on a rapid path to extinction due to palm oil plantations' obliteration of their rainforest habitat. 9/13.

Climate Change And Wildfires: Bigger, Fiercer Blazes Expected In West 7/13 not unrelated, 19 brave hotshots die. See also Fire

Goldman "Green Nobel" award. By organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining sites in “weaving protests,” Aleta Baun stopped the destruction of sacred forestland on Mutis Mountain on the island of Timor.

How Removing Trees Can Kill You PBS Newshour 6/13. study. .a tree saves a life a year.

NYC to get a million trees: According to the Los Angeles-based environmental nonprofit, Tree People, “Neighborhoods and homes that are barren have shown to have a greater incidence of violence in and out of the home than their greener counterparts. Trees and landscaping help to reduce the level of fear.” And they also help the economy by increasing property value by 15-percent, and commerce areas with many trees and landscaping around stores see an increase in business, according to studies.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest Deforestation Is Causing Rapid Seed Evolution, Study Shows 6/13.

Plant Communication

In Brilliant Green, Stefano Mancuso, a leading scientist and founder of the field of plant neurobiology, presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. 5/15 TEDx video.

Trees Make Sounds When They're Running Out Of Water, Lab Experiments Suggest

How Plants Use Math to Survive.

Plants Communicate with Help of Fungi

Heat increases insect damage to trees (not just bark beetles). 4/13.

Brazil killers of activists convicted.

When trees die, so do we includes crime rate, report 1/13. Update on crime 3/13.

Peru Declares Oil Contamination Emergency In Remote Amazon Region 3/13.

Local control works.

Scientist Seeks Connection Between Fire and Ice in Greenland 2/13.

Is There Really Such Thing As Sustainable Tourism? (aka eco-tourism).

Third National Assessment of global warming (summary) has chapters on what will happen with water, forests, native ppl etc.

Old Trees dying at alarming rate 12/12. but...

Could clones save California’s endangered redwoods — in Oregon? also local group effort. See also The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jim Robbins, an environmental science journalist for the New York Times article Tree archive. Yale e360 update on climate change effects 3/13.

Agroforests can heal food systems and fight climate change 12/12.

These crazy psychedelic photos can help scientists save the rainforest.

The U.S. could lose 34 million acres of forest by 2060

Bringing back chestnut trees could fight climate change and give us tasty treats 12/12.

Organized Crime Is Responsible For Up To 90 Percent Of Tropical Deforestation, U.N. Report Indicates 10/12.

Syngenta tries to cover up Atrazine contamination of water supply, including by collecting information to try to intimidate reporters. PBS Newshour video segment on use in forests 9/12.

Liberia's Forestry Dept. Giving Large Amounts Of Land To Logging Firms, Global Witness Report Says. 9/12

A new report (6.12) from international NGO Global Witness suggests that, in the past decade, 711 individuals have been killed while defending land and forest rights. 106 of these deaths allegedly came in 2011, with the number killed almost doubling over the past three years. According to the report, these deaths include "those killed in targeted attacks and violent clashes as a result of protests, investigating or taking grievances against mining operations, logging operations, intensive agriculture including ranching, tree plantations, hydropower dams, urban development and poaching."

Conservation drones used to fight deforestation (audio) 7.12 text.

KFC destroys Indonesian rainforest 5/12. SAO PAULO -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's benchmark law protecting the Amazon rainforest – a veto the government said would prevent increased deforestation. Environmentalists were not satisfied because they had called for a veto of the entire bill, known as the Forest Code, saying any weakening of the law would put the world's largest rainforest at risk. Government officials said the partial veto went far enough to keep Brazil on track in its efforts to quell the destruction of the Amazon and other biomes.

"It's the code of those who believe it's possible to produce food and preserve the environment," Agriculture Minister Jorge Ribeiro Mendes told reporters. Mendes and other officials said the government made 12 vetos and 32 other alterations to the bill, including a requirement for large landowners to reforest land they had illegally cleared, with less stringent requirements the smaller the area involved. Rousseff long indicated she wanted a bill that was less rigorous for smaller, poor farmers and ranchers in the Amazon and elsewhere. "The big (farmers) have vast extensions of land and have the means to recover all the areas of permanent preservation," Teixeira said. The bill now goes back to Congress, and legislators have 30 days to override Rousseff's changes with a simple majority, which is considered unlikely. The Amazon rainforest is considered one of the world's most important natural defenses against global warming because of its capacity to absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide. More.

Clearcutting forests endangers California water supply. 10/11.

Trees needed for guitars protected LOE.org audio and text. 2/12 tree-ring music.

UN REDD program addresses forests' importance to global warming. They are using a powerful new tool, Google Earth engine, a game-changer.

A new report reveals that the nation's largest private agribusiness company -- Minneapolis-based Cargill -- is a major culprit behind rainforest destruction. It turns out that Cargill, who both owns their own palm oil plantations and buys and trades palm oil from others, is directly destroying rainforests in Indonesia to produce palm oil, endangering orangutans, among other species. 5/10

Maps

Real-time deforestation map by Google and WRI (goes back 14 years).

NYT interactive map 10/11

New Landsat maps animated.

World forest map

Make interactive forest maps.

Google Earth alt link direct.

urban tree map of San Francisco, is part of larger open data initiative that helps with mass transit and recycling by providing mobile apps.

First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights

3D Amazon maps

You can identify poor neighborhoods from space.

New map shows how gold-obsessed libertarians are screwing up the rainforest.

Video

Urban Forests Jill Jonnes examines the natural history of trees and their impact on urban settings. 2/17

Tasso Azevedo has helped reduce the rate of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest by 75 percent — and inspired similar efforts around the world. TEDtalk 1/15.

Occupied Cascadia is a new documentary film both journalistic and expressionistic. Exploring the emerging understanding of bioregionalism within the lands and waters of the Northeast Pacific Rim, the filmmakers interweave intimate landscape portraits with human voices both ideological and indigenous.

If A Tree Falls traces how the Earth Liberation Front, known for setting fires to draw attention to their cause, became a more intense target for the FBI after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. interview. PBS POV.

Treesit: the Art of Resistance with Julia Hill Butterfly.

California Redwoods on KQED's Quest, including the mighty banana slug.

Redwoods and climate change is a UC project. 6/11

Climate Change and the Forests of the West (Keeling Lecture) 2010.

Greenpeace overview

Pine beetle infestation could be part of feedback loop to accelerate climate change.

"Up in Smoke," a documentary on the use of slash and burn agriculture in Central America. 6/11

Willie Smits has devoted his life to saving the forest habitat of orangutans, the "thinkers of the jungle." As towns, farms and wars encroach on native forests, Smits works to save what is left. TEDtalk video.

A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships. TedTalk video. 4/11 CA talk(video).

Medicine: Jewels of the Jungle takes audiences on a worldwide journey of scientific exploration, trekking throughout the forests of Australia, Bolivia and Peru, and into laboratories throughout the United States, presenting viewers with a first glimpse of what may become humanity’s next generation of wonder drugs. In recent years drug-resistant bacteria have rendered many of society’s ‘wonder-drugs’ impotent. And numerous diseases, including malaria and AIDS remain uncured. For Montana State University Professor Dr. Gary Strobel, the solution lays not in laboratories but in nature. Jewels of the Jungle follows Dr. Strobel as he travels throughout the world’s most remote and beautiful forests in search of new natural medicinal compounds, relying not only on Western science but also on the traditional knowledge of aboriginal peoples.

Effort to save Cambodian forest destroyed in part to make the drug ecstasy.

Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Shown on PBS.

New perspective on trees from National Geographic

Sustainable Development in Practice: Lessons Learned from Amazonas. Also a book Virgilio Viana has spent years working to prevent deforestation in Brazil, particularly in his role as environment secretary for the state of Amazonas, which has more rain forest than any country except for Brazil itself. Viana helped to reduce the rate of deforestation in Amazonas by 70 percent.

Yasuni about oil and Ecuadorian rainforest].

Psychological Effects of exposure to nature explored in Last Child in the Woods.

Audio

An indigenous tribe in the Amazon is trying to protect its forest by selling carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market. 9/12.

‘Canopy Meg’ wants you to care about the rainforest 7.12 (audio interview)

REDD--an ambitious UN plan to pay people to protect rainforests and the carbon stored in them, is beginning to take root in the forests of tropical countries. One of challenges to making it work is the people depend on the forest for survival. Living on Earth's Mitra Taj reports on a pilot project in Indonesian Borneo. (18:00) 4/10. More on REDD from PBS Carbon Watch site.

Living on Earth (npr.org) coverage of REDD

Agriculture experts call the soybean 'a miracle crop.' It's used in thousands of products from tofu to bio-fuels. Most, goes to feed farm animals. The United States is the number one grower, but not for long. The soybean is booming in Brazil, where this year's harvest was a record breaker. Market analysts expect Brazil will soon be the world's leading producer. Just two generations ago, soybean farming on this scale in Brazil was unthinkable. Now, critics wonder if it's unsustainable. Living on Earth's Bruce Gellerman traveled to "ground zero" of Brazil's soy-revolution to find out.

Can Economics Save the Rainforest? 11/12.

Trees in Paradise: A California History By Jared Farmer review audio interview. audio interview includes socialist co see History

Books

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate ―Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst. The science of how trees survive and thrive reminds of the need to protect our forests.

Trees in Paradise: A California History By Jared Farmer review audio interview. audio interview includes socialist co see History

Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction / by John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1995 S&E Stacks SD414.T76 V36 1995 c.3 Online Includes bananas.

The Last Stand by David Harris (a required book for Core some years back) "is a compelling American saga of greed gone wild and a small town divided over a precious natural resource. For three generations, the Murphy family ran the Pacific Lumber Company with a tradition of both sustainable forestry and a concern for employee well-being. Their Headwaters Forest in Northern California contained three-quarters of the world's old-growth redwoods in 1985, the year in which a Texas-based conglomerate engineered a hostile takeover of PLC. The new owners quickly increased the harvest of redwoods by 300 percent, gutted the employee pension plan, and began clear-cutting acre upon acre of virgin forest. Local environmentalists took up the fight to reverse the takeover and save the redwoods. The conflict between conservation efforts and fears of unemployment came to a head at the end of "Redwood Summer," when protesters from across the country came into town and were greeted by residents shouting insults and slinging eggs and tomatoes." (Overview of Redwood Wars, see also Judi Bari and Julia Butterfly Hill below).

From the Redwood Forest: ancient trees and the bottom line : a Headwaters journey. Joan Dunning, Doug Thron. Beautiful images.

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring Written by Richard Preston excerpt includes information on Steve Sillett who pioneered exploring the high canopy of the Redwoods.

Searching for El Dorado: A journey into the South American Rainforest on then Trail of the World's Largest Gold Rush Marc Robert Herman, UCSC alum Oakes '91. , Doubleday, 2003

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn (revised 2011).

Strangely Like War by Derrick Jensen

Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees. World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it. UC Press author interview

Trees phtographs by James Balog (of the Extreme Ice Survey)

Thomas Pakenham's "Remarkable Trees of the World" link.

The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jim Robbins, video interview*** an environmental science journalist for the New York Times article Tree archive. David Milarch, is a man who made a mission of trying to clone the oldest trees on the planet. 2013 extensive talk video.

The Sacred Headwaters by Wade Davis; Canada, successfully defended by Native peoples and activist allies.

In Forests for the People: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests, writer Christopher Johnson and forester David Govatski team up to explore two crucial questions: how did concerned citizens get the Weeks Act passed, and how are these places facing the challenges of the 21st century? Eight case studies examine critical issues facing the eastern national forests today, including endangered wildlife, oil shale drilling, invasive species, and development surrounding national park borders.

Living with Fire offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role.

== Heroes == (see also Eco-Heroes)

Judi Bari: "Twenty years ago on May 24, 1990, a bomb planted in the car of Earth First! activist Judi Bari exploded, sending her and fellow activist Darryl Cherney to the hospital in Oakland--Judi with life-threatening injuries, since the bomb had been hidden directly under her driver's seat. Judi and Darryl were on their way to a music and speaking event on the UC Santa Cruz campus, part of an organizing tour for Redwood Summer. That explosion, and the subsequent attack on Earth First! as well as Judi and Darryl by the FBI and Oakland police, would forever change the face of forest activism in the redwoods and elsewhere. The bomber was never found, because the FBI never conducted a serious investigation, choosing instead to blame and harass Earth First! activists. But a lawsuit filed by Judi against the FBI for violation of Constitutional rights was ultimately successful in 2002, vindicating Darryl and Judi, but coming five years after Judi's untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 47. BBC profile (audio). A new documentary (3/12)

David "Gypsy" Chain was killed defending California old growth forest.

Corneille Ewango, as a botanist at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Congo basin, has faced down poachers and soldiers who threaten this delicate and vital ecosystem (Tedtalk video).

Jane Goodall legendary primatologist (TEDtalk video)

Julia Butterfly Hill ( see movie Treesit: The Art of Resistance) On Dec. 10, 1997, a 23-year-old woman named Julia "Butterfly" Hill climbed into a 55-meter (180 foot) tall California Coast Redwood tree. Her aim was to prevent the destruction of the tree and of the forest where it had lived for a millennium. Butterfly Hill worked in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, putting her own life on the line to save the life of a forest that was under immediate threat of destruction. The New College of California awarded her an honorary doctorate for her tree sit-activism. Read Grist interview to learn where Butterfly-Hill derives her inspiration. In CNN interview Butterfly Hill explains her involvement in transnational environmental movements after being deported by the Ecuadorian government for protesting an oil pipeline through the rainforest.

Andy Lipkis, on the first Earth Day, 1970, he was a 15-year-old was enjoying another summer at a pine forested summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. But he stopped feeling so carefree when a naturalist told his group that the forests in the mountains surrounding them were dying, victims of the air pollution creeping up from the sprawling city below. Andy took up the challenge to save the forests, even though he was “just” a teenager. That summer, he organized fellow campers to plant a grove of smog-tolerant seedlings in what had been a dirt lot. Along the way, they planted the seeds of an organization that grew into TreePeople.

Wangari Mathai First environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize. 11/06 Interview (audio). 2007 audio interview. A new documentary shown on PBS Taking Root, trailer )(UCSC owns it: McHenry Media Center DVD6865 and DVD7441) Living on Earth series including her history. Video of 2009 talk "Challenge for Africa." Sadly, she recently passed away at age 71.

Chico Mendes was killed protecting the Brazilian Rain Forest. Sadly, activists there are still in danger. Brazil killers of activists convicted.

John Muir new biography: A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir McHenry QH 31 M9 W68 2008 by Worster, Donald. Muir's big fight was to save Hetchy-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite. His writings are on thisextensive site. You can follow his life on Google Earth. Lee Stetson does a one-man show channelling Muir at Yosemite, also in a PBS documentary. 20 min video biography.

David Milarch, is a man who made a mission of trying to clone the oldest trees on the planet.The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jim Robbins, video interview*** an environmental science journalist for the New York Times article Tree archive. 2013 extensive talk video.

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in New Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals, very involved in water and agricultural issues. Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. Video of discussion about granting rights to the earth. Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest.

Images

These crazy psychedelic photos can help scientists save the rainforest.

From the Redwood Forest: ancient trees and the bottom line : a Headwaters journey. Joan Dunning, Doug Thron. Beautiful images.

This koala had the worst day ever.

Organizations

http://www.treepeople.org/ founded by Andy Lipkis mostly US (and urban?)

Save the Redwoods League works in Santa Cruz, so does Semper Virens Foundation

Amazonwatch.org

Rainforest Action Network

John Muir Project, had lots of info on forests, fire and related issues, based at Earth Island Institute.

California Redwoods

Yale e360 update on climate change effects 3/13.

Study documents drought's impact on redwood forest ferns 1/16.

Overview of Redwood Wars. See also Last Stand book

UN REDD program in CA? 11/13.

The Last Stand by David Harris (a required book for Core some years back) "is a compelling American saga of greed gone wild and a small town divided over a precious natural resource. For three generations, the Murphy family ran the Pacific Lumber Company with a tradition of both sustainable forestry and a concern for employee well-being. Their Headwaters Forest in Northern California contained three-quarters of the world's old-growth redwoods in 1985, the year in which a Texas-based conglomerate engineered a hostile takeover of PLC. The new owners quickly increased the harvest of redwoods by 300 percent, gutted the employee pension plan, and began clear-cutting acre upon acre of virgin forest. Local environmentalists took up the fight to reverse the takeover and save the redwoods. The conflict between conservation efforts and fears of unemployment came to a head at the end of "Redwood Summer," when protesters from across the country came into town and were greeted by residents shouting insults and slinging eggs and tomatoes." (Overview of Redwood Wars, see also Judi Bari and Julia Butterfly Hill below).

From the Redwood Forest: ancient trees and the bottom line : a Headwaters journey. Joan Dunning, Doug Thron. Beautiful images.

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring Written by Richard Preston excerpt includes information on Steve Sillett who pioneered exploring the high canopy of the Redwoods.

Searching for El Dorado: A journey into the South American Rainforest on then Trail of the World's Largest Gold Rush Marc Robert Herman, UCSC alum Oakes '91. , Doubleday, 2003

Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant Redwood trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still, largely, a mystery. TedTalk video. He is the author of The Wild Trees (see below)

California Redwoods activist website.

Could clones save California’s endangered redwoods — in Oregon? also local group effort. See also The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jim Robbins, an environmental science journalist for the New York Times article Tree archive.

Save the Redwoods League works in Santa Cruz, so does Semper Virens Foundation

California Redwoods on KQED's Quest, including the mighty banana slug. video

Redwoods and climate change is a UC project. 6/11 video. update RCCI Forest Network is learning how climate change is impacting redwood forests by tracking forest conditions over time in the RCCI network of old-growth forest plots distributed throughout the geographic range of coast redwoods and giant sequoias.

Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever and The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California UPDATE 12/12 National Geographic pictures.

A Creepy Monster of the Forest: The Albino, Vampiric Redwood Tree spotted near Santa Cruz too.

Mt. Hermon Redwood Canopy Tours zipline.

California’s Fog Is Clearing, and That’s Bad News for Redwoods.

Audio: overview.

The Redwood Forest: HISTORY, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION OF THE COAST REDWOODS. EDITED BY REED F. NOSS; SAVE-THE-REDWOODS LEAGUE published by Island Prass (go Slugs).

The Sempervirens story : a century of preserving California's ancient redwood forest, 1900-2000 : a pictorial and historical narrative of the Sempervirens Club and the Sempervirens Fund / by Denzil & Jennie Verardo, Yaryan, Willie (College 8 instructor). S&E Stacks SD397.R3 Y37 2000 c.2.

Trees in Paradise: A California History By Jared Farmer review audio interview. audio interview includes socialist co (2014) see History

UCSC Research

See also Slugs in Action)

Adelia Barber (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) hiked the Continental Divide, worked on a conservation project in Tanzania, and studied environmental science as an undergraduate at Brown University in Rhode Island. Because she's also a self-described math geek, Barber decided to explore a relatively new area of plant ecology that uses computer models to understand plant populations. At UCSC, she found a terrific advisor: Daniel Doak, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. And she found the perfect species to study: bristlecone pines, the oldest living things on the planet. Ultimately, the research could lead to predictions about how global warming might affect the trees in the future. She was an early and featured partner with Google Earth.

Environmental Studies professor Greg Gilbert established a research and teaching site in 2007 in the mixed-evergreen coastal forest on the north campus. The nearly 15-acre Forest Ecology Research Plot (FERP) has been accepted into the global network of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) / Global Earth Observatory (SIGEO).More.

Steve Gliessman works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. City on a Hill article on his work with coffee. Also excerpts from his book Agroecology : The Ecology Of Sustainable Food Systems / Steven R. Gliessman 2007 S&E Stacks S589.7 .G58 2007. He co-edited Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. McH Stacks HD9199.M62 C66 2008.

Marc Robert Herman, Oakes '91. Searching for El Dorado: A journey into the South American Rainforest on then Trail of the World's Largest Gold Rush, Doubleday, 2003.

Dr. Karen Holl's work focuses on understanding factors limiting recovery of ecosystems from human-induced disturbance and using this information to design restoration strategies. Members of the Holl lab work in a range of ecosystems in California (riparian forest, coastal prairie, and chaparral) and in the neotropics (Costa Rica, Panama, and Mexico). Lab members work closely with land owners and conservation organizations to exchange information about ecosystem restoration, and aim to apply the results of their research to land management and policy decisions. Several lab members are members of the Center for Tropical Research on Ecology, Agriculture, and Development.

Deborah Letourneau has done research into GMO's along with Joy Hagen and Ingrid Parker. She also studies plant-insect interactions, biodiversity, and environmental risk in the context of decision-making in managed systems (example, forests and agriculture).

Ingrid Parker studies invasive plant species.

Katie Roper has done internships in Kenya, and spent a year living in a "sustainable community" on campus. She she single-handedly produced a six-minute video documentary called Thirsty Trees: And the Search for Better Alternatives.

Gabriel Sady wins UCSC enviro scholarship to study forests in Costa Rica.

Stuart A. Schlegel Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist.

Starry Sprenkle, tropical forest researcher, works in Haiti.

Study documents drought's impact on redwood forest ferns says Jarmila Pittermann, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. 1/16.