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Winter 2009

The Forests Issue
volume 23 no. 4

Journal

Shrugging off a Cataclysm

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Local News from All Over

Notes from a warming world

In Ecuador, Trees Now Have Rights

by Gar Smith

Earth Island Project Reports

Red Panda Network

Fighting for the Firefox

Viva Sierra Gorda

Livelihood from the Land

The Amazon: It’s What’s for Dinner

The Spread of Soy Plantations Poses a New Threat to the Rainforest

by Cameron Scott

Mission Impossible

Ecologists agree that there is no way to win the War Against Wildfire. So why is the Forest Service spending more than ever on fire suppression?

by Jason Mark

Forest of Memory

by Elena Baca Suquet

Fever in the Forests

Global climate change is making many trees sick – and in the process releasing more carbon into the atmosphere

by Daniel McGlynn

Borderlands

Illegal Logging Threatens Russia’s Last Great Wilderness

by Adam Federman

A Future with Forestry

Community Forest Enterprises Offer Hope for Rural Mexico

by Benjamin Hodgdon

Frederick Schilling

Fear Factor

Can We Learn to Live with Predators Among Us?

by Elizabeth Grossman

Up in Smoke

Big Tobacco Ruins a Small African Nation

by Bryan Farrell

Flow

by Irena Salina Produced by Oscilloscope Laboratories, 84 Minutes

Journal Bookshelf

Bargaining for Eden

The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America

by Stephen Trimble 336 pages, University of California Press, 2008

A Tale of Two Wildernesses

by Michael Stoll