Living Forests

This post contains a growing list of resources regarding ecological forest management practices advocated by Living Forests. Carbon California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate , 2018 Nature’s Make or Break Potential for Climate Change . October 16, 2017. Thomas Goreau on the value of preserving forests and particularly soil as a major carbon sink .  40 countries are making polluters pay for carbon pollution. Guess who's not . June 15, 2017 Forest & Wood Products poster , 2017. Mass Timber Architecture Carbon12  (watch  placement of last panel ) Virtuoso (watch  video ) Research reports on tall wood buildings: I | II | III Notes from the Mass Timber Conference, by Amy Horne . 2018 Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Cross-Laminated Timber Hess Timber Setas de Sevilla Museum Removing Barriers to Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacture and Adoption in California: A game changer for wildfire, forests, and climat

Western Nevada and Central Sierra Nevada of California Regional Wood Utilization Team Living Forests is the recipient of a US Forest Service grant to create a bi-state wood utilization team (WUT). The aim of the grant--part of $8.3 million in distributed funds just announced by the U.S. Forest Service--is to stimulate the removal of hazardous fuels from forests to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires and promote forest health, while at the same time spurring the economic development of rural communities. If we are to restore the ecological function of western forests to address expanding problems of wildfire, disease, insect infestation, and degraded water supply and quality, then we need to find a market for all the small material that needs to come off the forest. It's too expensive to do this work without the help of a new kind of timber industry: one that is driven by ecology rather than large trees. The WUT is working to: Identify people already working on thi

Center for the Study of Force Majeure 335 Linden St Santa Cruz, CA 95062 https://livingforests.org/ harrisonstudio@gmail.com  joshuaharrison929@gmail.com Our MISSION: Solve the crisis of catastrophic fire in California and the intermountain West using a Whole Systems approach that combines environmentally informed forest thinning with creating a sustainable locally organized (distributed) wood products industry and market. LIVING FORESTS: A Whole Systems Approach Imagine a Forest Industry of the 21st Century where the act of harvesting (forestry) preserves the system (the forest) and the act of preserving the system provides meaningful work for the human community. Decades of fire suppression have created forests that have way too many trees, spread in too regular a pattern. That timber is in constant danger of catastrophic burning, endangering people, property, wildlife, and watershed, potentially devastating whole communities. We need to restructure endang