All Forests Need Yo Be Cut Down
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I really liked this movie. I thought it had a good storyline. I thought the acting was good. I thought the pace of the movie was fine, Good job with the creatures. I thought the ending was good.
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Book Review from my blog: Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie

The push to save the wilderness, wildlife and rivers, whether on the North American Continent or in the Amazon, or in Burma, seems such a worthy goal. It underlies much of the work of conservation groups and activist such as Green Peace Rainforest Networks.  Sierra Club has a great leadership role in this regard and many conservations and environmentalist have contributed to or supported such efforts.  It is a rude awakening to discover in reading Dowie's book that what was thought to be a `good deed' was not the whole story. His book, The Conservation Refugees, reports on how these efforts were consistently and intentionally, in many cases, undermining and even destroying native cultures and whole populations in the name of saving nature.  Dowie reports how the National Park system was created on the backs of such tribal destruction.

Dowie tells a startling story, with extensive references, of the creation of Yosemite National Park. It was widely held that the wilderness was uninhabited, wild so to speak. The few natives that were thought to be living there were seen as in the way of the conservation of nature and the wild.  The National Park Service was ordered to forcibly remove them from the new designated boundaries. They were driven out several times based on a belief that they were uninvolved in the health of the wilderness. The tribes crept back in repeatedly to tend to what hey considered a sacred duty to manage their role in the forest health. It was decades before it was clear the significant management practices they had for creating healthy forest eco-systems.

The local people had what Dowie calls "traditional ecological knowledge" (TEK) which was utilized to engage in fostering healthy ecosystems. Such practices included controlled burning to regenerate the forest, managing streams to increase healthy fisheries and transporting and transplanting species based on an understanding of companion species that promoted vitality of the forests. The Miwok tribes who lived in Yosemite for over two hundred years, having inhabited the forests that are now Yosemite, had no word for "wilderness" in their language. They had for generations been involved in managing the forest eco-system, long before European settlers arrived.  What Europeans saw as wilderness were well managed forests and ecosystems.

Dowie reports that the Yosemite model of removing Native Peoples who had the TEK, became a Global model, in fact, it is called the Yosemite Model. It has now spread around the world as part of the conservation movement and has undermined the health of ecosystems by removing the very people who hold the TEK in managing for real sustainability, long term viability or forests and robust living ecosystems that support life for all of us. Businesses who are supporting conservation and eco-sustainability may want to check out Dowie's work. It extensively documented with information and stories not seen elsewhere, with the exception of Kat Anderson in Tending the Wild. But Dowie's book points to the Global systematic adoption of a model that destroys Native People cultures and lives and by doing so undermines the very intention of the conservation movement. What are you supporting with you business practices in philanthropy, building and supply decisions?

Q&A with a tribal elder to follow. [...]  Author of:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Corporate-Responsibility-Reimagining-Sustainability/dp/0470648686/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284255061&sr=8-11
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HOW SAD AND AT THE SAME TIME HOW PREDICTABLE. IT'S AS IF YOU PLACED A FEW GENERATIONS OF BACKWOOD FAMILIES ON A DESERTED ISLAND AND LEFT THEM TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THERE ARE NO ECONOMIC BENEFITS, NO SOCIAL MOBILITY, NO EDUCATION AND NO OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL MEMBERS OF THESE FAMILIES TO EVER EXPERIENCE SOCIAL UPWARD MOBILITY.

IT KINDA REMINDS ME OF HOW OUR ANCIENT FOREFATHERS, THE CAVEMEN MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED EONS AGO. WITH LITTLE PRODUCTION OF ANYTHING USABLE OR SUSTAINABLE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WEAPON MAKING IS NON-EXISTENT. PLUNDERING AND KILLING NEIGHBOR TRIBES FOR FOOD, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO BE USED AS SLAVES ARE THE NORM., THERE WAS LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO ASCEND IN SOCIAL STATUS. YEARS OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES AND CONTROL OF THE COAL INDUSTRY HAVE DUG A HOLE TOO DEEP TO CRAWL OUT OF.

IT'S LIKE A THRIVING TOWN THAT ALLOWED WAL-MART TO ESTABLISH A STORE WITHIN ITS CITY LIMITS. THEN WAL-MART RAN OFF ALL THE COMPETITION  AND WHEN THE TIME CAME THAT THE TOWNS PEOPLE NOLONGER HAD ANYTHING OF VALUE TO TRADE FOR FOOD AND SECURITY, WAL-MART UPROOTED AND LEFT THE TOWN HIGH AND DRIVE.WHEN THE MINES LOST EMPLOYMENT AND FINALLY BEGAN TO CLOSE, THE REMAINING FOLKS WERE TOO OLD, TOO DISADVANTAGED TO SEEK ANOTHER PLIGHT. UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT CAME IN AND GAVE THEM SHOVELS,  IN TIME, YOU CAN DESCRIBETHE PEOPLE AND THEIR EVENTS BASED ON HOW MANY GOVERNMENT ISSUED SHOVELS THEY HAVE CONFISCATED FROM THEIR NEIGHBORS..

RECOVERY ALL BEGINS WITH EDUCATION, FAMILY CULTURE, GOOD HEALTH TREATMENT AND FINALLY LIFE SUSTAINING WORK.
EVEN IF YOU ARE A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN, THERE WILL BE NO PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. YOU MUST HAVE OPPORTUNITY AND AN INSATIABLE DESIRE TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE AND JOB SKILLS. WITHOUT THE ABOVE, YOU CONTINUE TO DIG A DEEPER HOLE WHEN FINALLY YOU HAVE DUG SO DEEP THAT THE SUNLIGHT NO LONGER LIGHTS YOUR LIFE.

THIS IS THE INEVIBILITY OF APPALACHIAN CULTURE. THE MIDDLE CLASS DISAPEARS AMD ALL THAT IS LEFT IS THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS. THERE IS NO WAY OUT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. BLACK GOLD WAS THEIR LIFE LINE AND NOW POVERTY AND DRUGS HAVE BECOME THEIR WAY OF LIFE. GENERARTIONS TO COME WILL NEVER IMPROVE THEIR UPWARD MOBILITY UNLESS THEY BREAKOUT OF THE ROT THEY FIND THEMSELVES SURROUNDED BY.
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I have not had time to finish reading this book but wanted to review it anyway, 150 some pages in.  The writing is crisp.  The subject is fascinating.  The story needed to be told  I highly recommend Toms River to everyone.  This is an important book that reveals how a town can become polluted without the residents even noticing.  Yes, that's what happened in New Jersey, my mom's home state.  I was fortunate that she lived there before the industrial pollution.  Now we know better, but places like Toms River still exist.  People are getting cancer.  Stop thinking cure and work for PREVENTION!  Damage the environment and suffer.  Please read this book and learn from it.  If you are not already an environmentalist, prepare to become one.
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Awesome! Done with fuel & pulling & pulling again. Cut 10 tress already & for the first time in my life i enjoy cutting tress. :)
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An excellent bo0ok. Every citizen should read this. She covers all bases and offers only one final solution...the world has to cut its carbon usage r
radically immediately. This is the only way out of this problem but we do nit seem to be taking it.
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Gee what can I say.. Live in the antipodes.. Can't afford to be without back up for m y cutting
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Make sure to knock all of the loose pieces of rubber from the trees. They make quite a mess when you get them.
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Our current socio-economic system, with its perpetual consumption and waste, is outdated, obsolete, and unsustainable.  We need a system that is aligned with the natural world, where our policies are determined by the scientific method and natural law, that benefits humanity and our environment, and not just a fraction of the population.  This book explains the logic behind a new system that's built around these objectives.  I wish everyone would read this book!!
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Sometimes you just need a tree, sometimes you need a forest
To mask the scent of stale farts, cigarettes, and despair,
for the next 8hrs.
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These plants are pretty and were quite a fad down here in Tampa Bay, Florida.  People put them on their porches in cute little fence decorations.  They get seeds.  The seeds blow and end up attached to trees.  The plants look so much like Spanish moss once they are wrapped tight around the tree branch.  They they attach tighter and tighter, more seeds fly and then they are all over the trees.  They literally choke the big, beautiful trees to death.  The nutrients cannot get thru the strangle hold.  People who have the money to do it, pay tree surgeons to come and cut them off the trees, cut branches, you can imagine the cost on a big beautiful tree.  The tree branches turn white, it's so sad.  So, yes cute but deadly.  Do your research.  I pick these things off wherever I can reach them, but it has become way out of control.  Another example of introducing a foreign plant to an area that has never had them.

I am going to do another review at another seller and include a photo.  I didn't know I could add photo.  I'm sure there are plenty on the computer because of the tree damage.  The seeds are the problem, that and the fact that once in the tree, it resembles Spanish moss.
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Agriculture of annual crops without the intermittent grazing by herd animals has led to the wholesale destruction of soil in locations all over the world, including the midwestern United States. In this richly detailed and fascinating account, Judith Schwartz shows how brittle grasslands- those which do not produce year round- require herds of cattle or bison or other range animals to break up hardpan soil, nibble at grass to stimulate its growth, and to enrich the soil with its manure and urine.  The trick is that the herd must move on every few days. A few cows in a confined area for a long time will degrade the soil faster than a herd of fifty that is kept moving. Cattle, sheep, antelope, bison, elephants and other pack animals evolved to move rapidly to avoid predators.  In elephant reserves where predators have been excluded, they tend to become sedentary, hanging out at the most prolific pool while grassland around them deteriorates.  Alan Savoy found that running cattle herds through the reserve allowed the restoration of the grassland along with a growth of diversity of plants and animals.  His publicized pasture techniques are slowly being adopted by ranchers and Schwartz interviews them on the pros and cons of the technique.  Native perennial grasses full of seed heads can be grazed in lieu of planted annuals.  Fertilizer is not necessary.

What with all the talk of cows and methane, we lose sight of the fact that healthy soil causes carbon fixation- in other words the soil is a carbon sink which can lower greenhouse gasses.  Appropriately pastured cows are the net carbon fixers because of their effect on living soil.  This runs counter to the standard ecological vegetarian argument but appropriately pastured cows increase  water (via plant to air exchange), increase humus, do not require expensive grain trucked across the country, and produce less gross methane.

Fungicides kill off the mycelium that allows soil to stay moist and productive.  (A tablespoon of good soil will contain a mile of thin mycelial strands but dies off with chemicals.)  Healthier plants require less fertilizer (provided by the cows) and less pesticide use. The only real losers are the Big Ag purveyors of chemicals, herbicides and fungicides who strip the earth of its vitality and productivity and are responsible for the foodlike produce we find in conventional grocery stores. Well written, well documented and a paradigm changer!
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The problem of global warming threatens our civilization. In this important book, Professor Howard A. Latin, an expert on environmental law, critiques as too timid the current proposals to curb global warming. He points out that the solutions that have been advanced will only slow global warming by a minute amount. He argues eloquently that what we need instead is a crash effort to develop a safe and carbon-free source of energy -- that is, to de-carbonize our economy. Latin, who is particularly knowledgeable about international environmental law, points out that global cooperation is needed, but it will not occur so long as developing nations are told they must curb growth that decreases poverty. Everyone interested in global warming should read the book and consider Latin's proposals.
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To Jeff Flakey a true conservation supports endless war in the middle east, tax cuts for billionaires, amnesty, open borders, "free" trade that guts American industry, and big donors. It's ridiculous that he would write a book about "principles" when he has none.
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Tremendous book - just finished it - my daughter bought it for me:

In this book you learn about the destruction of the West in the US perpetrated by the Eco-Fascists. Here is a quote from the man who is most responsible for the desertification of the West through his hatred of farming and ranching:

"We're creating biological deserts in areas that should be exuberant with life",(Jon) Marvel says. "If the land could talk, it would be crying".

You have no rights to your property. The UN, composed of cultural and economic Marxists and its NGO allies feel you are unworthy and only they can "manage" your land. They detest our freedoms and our way of life and want to crush it so they can institute their pernicious destruction. We have Environmental Impact Statements in the U.S., but to counteract the anti-science environmental lies we need a Job Loss and Land Loss Impact Statement.

It would read as follows;

Any environmental law passed by Congress, any rule from any Federal or State agency or any taking and so forth will require a Job Loss and Land Loss Impact Statement, which must be prepared in less than 30 days. A loss of one job or one acre of land (in part or in toto) deemed to be economically damaged would require a statement. An EIS or any other ruling regarding land use would be null and void if either the State, a County Commission or a citizen/group/association/business filed lawsuit could prove the loss of a job or a loss of an acre would damage the economy of the State or County.  At that point the ruling or law would be null and void in that jurisdiction.

Problem solved and the whole ecosystem nonsense collapses.
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The extinction alarm is ticking. We need to look at the consequences of our lives - eating, traveling, waste and what we can do to stop our impact on other creatures. What we do even locally can impact others far from our own realm. This book is not only thought provoking it needs action now!
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Einstein said if all the bees disappear we will have 4 years left on the earth, bees help the trees an plants grow an the animals get the green if animals have nothing to eat they will die, no meat for us, an fruit we need to keep us healthy no fruit or meat we won't live, an the trees an plants gives us air to, every thing on this earth has a job god given them a job they was made for a reason from god, so yes we do need bees, an we are killing them one by one, with are water an what we put in the air an our sound waves are messing with their sound waves they give off to other bees, an they might get lost an don't know were to go,