Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires"
"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/
Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology
The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.
Experts say repealing the "Roadless Rule" won't help stop fires, but it will help loggers.
On
#Counternarratives,
#Opposition, and the Politics of
#GlobalOrder: We’re happy to have Jaap de Wilde and Benjamin Herborth (University of Groningen) for our next
#WONAGO lecture, moderated by
#GIGA researcher Mohamad Forough.
➡️ Join us on 24 May at the GIGA or online:
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/wonago-lecture-series
WONAGO Lecture Series
What happened to Latin American ideas outside of Latin America during the sixties? Was Latin America a centre of production of ideas and practices? Was the continent a centre of the global sixties? Is it possible to tell a polycentric story of the sixties?
Table of the Dawn
an esoteric cohort
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BellingenNSW
GIGA Institute
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