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Logging operations in an old-growth forest (Scripps News) Deep in the Stanislaus National Forest in northern California, it's the sound you hear first. Once you get closer, it's harder to miss.
Deforestation in the United States was affected by many factors. One such factor was the effect, whether positive or negative, that the logging industry has on forests in the country. Logging in the United States is a hotly debated topic as groups who either support or oppose logging argue over its benefits and negative effects.
The California-as-disaster-epic narrative is back. Here are a few reasons not to buy into it, and instead to embrace the state as a bellwether for the country. California, it's going to be OK.
Even the simplest forms of agriculture affect diversity – through clearing or draining the land, discouraging weeds and pests, and encouraging just a limited set of domesticated plant and animal species. [23] There are also feedbacks and interactions among the proximate and underlying causes of deforestation that can amplify the process.
According to Italian news agencies, a huge number of the birds were found to have blue stains on their beaks that may have been caused by paint or hypoxia. [ 17 ] Over the weekend of 8–9 January, "over a hundred" dead birds were found clustered together on a California highway, while "thousands of dead gizzard shad " (a species of fish ...
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The physical destruction of a habitat, both directly (deforestation for land development or lumber) and indirectly (burning fossil fuels), is an example of this. [7] [8] Also, increasing toxicity, through media such as pesticides, can kill off a species very rapidly, by killing all living members through contamination or sterilizing them.
An endangered orca vanished from a dwindling whale pod off the Washington coast, a conservation group said. The missing Southern Resident killer whale, K-26, was not seen by researchers during an ...