Forests Forever __Alerts

8/6/10
Forests Forever 
Since 1989, protecting and enhancing California's forests and wildlife habitat through educational, legislative and electoral activities.

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The "New Testament"

"In Forests Forever, John J. Berger clearly elucidates the myriad environmental, esthetic and economic values we preserve when we trade clearcutting for judicious sustainable forestry, whilst preserving the integrity and services of old growth forests. If a bible for ethical, yet productive, forestry exists as a blueprint for the forestry industry, Forests Forever is the New Testament."

 

— Arnold Newman, Ph.D.

 

(Arnold Newman, Ph.D., is Executive Director, International Society for the Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest and author of Tropical Rainforest: A World Survey of Our Most Valuable Endangered Habitat with a Blueprint for Its Survival Into the Third Millennium.)

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More than 490 libraries across North America and around the world have stocked copies of Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration and Protection, published by Forests Forever Foundation and the Center for American Places.

 

This important new book by John J. Berger moves from calm discussions of forest ecology to the turbulent politics of forest management. 

 

It features 300-plus pages of beautifully crafted text and images, including color and black-and-white photographs by some of the most respected names in nature photography.


For those who want their own copy, the book is available in softcover ($33.50 including shipping) and hardcover ($55.50 including shipping). 

 

Call Forests Forever at 415.974.3636 to order your copy now!

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WANTED:

PUBLISHING INTERNS

 

Forests Forever is going all-out to present Berger's superbly researched and written book to the world. We're even looking for marketing volunteers to help out at the author's office in Berkeley.


If you live in or near Berkeley and want to undertake promotional tasks such as phone calls and letter writing, give us a call at (415) 974-3636 or send an email to mail@forestsforever.org ASAP to let us know you’re available.

 

Victory for AB 2575 in key committee!
Get details in our Summer issue of The Watershed

 

 

As the latest issue of our newsletter The Watershed went to press, breaking news out of Sacramento gave us cause to celebrate— and to update you here on our banner story.

 

As we report in this issue, Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro's Assembly Bill 2575— the "Comprehensive Forest Land Recovery and Restoration Act"— has been moving steadily toward passage.

 

This week that process reached another important milestone as the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the measure 6 to 3, with two Senators not voting

 

Click here (or on the newsletter image) to download your PDF copy of The Watershed now!

 


INSIDE THE LATEST ISSUE:Richard Gienger

 

The Summer 2010 issue of The Watershed offers insight into Forests Forever's drive to shepherd two key forestry bills through the state legislature— all part of our ongoing California Statewide Sustainable Forests and Watersheds Campaign.

The issue's banner story examines Forests Forever's strategic approach in advancing both Chesbro’s A.B. 2575 and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner’s A.B. 1504— the “Carbon Sink Act.”

Forests Forever is the organizational sponsor of both measures.

We are gratified by the strong support A.B. 2575 has received so far, including the latest thumbs-up by the Appropriations Committee.

The passage there means that instead of calling committee members to urge them to pass the bill, we invite you to call them to thank them for voting in favor of the measure!

At a future date we will be urging Senators to retrieve the Skinner bill from the Appropriations Committee's “suspense file” where the measure was sent apparently over cost considerations.

As soon as we have information on targets and dates, we will alert you.

As our news feature (“Forest protocols spark political firestorm”) explains in depth, the complexity involved in agreeing upon the extent to which California’s forests can store CO2 and thus play a leading role in the fight to curb global warming makes A.B. 1504 all the more timely and necessary.

And, needless to say, clearcutting should not and cannot be a part of the solution even though timbercompanies such as Sierra Pacific Industries say or think it should be.

That’s where our activist profile of restoration guru Richard Gienger (pictured above) comes in.

On the North Coast, Gienger is a major force in working to reshape the old extraction economy into a modern, sustainable restoration economy.

He and many others are turning the tide of forest management away from clearcuttingand toward putting people to work rehbabilitating the land and making it possible for endangered species including salmon to once again flourish.

We hope you enjoy the issue. We sincerely appreciate your feedback and support.
 
 
 
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