These #ClimateForests support #Biodiversity
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RT @DDellasala
#WildHeritage continues our efforts to showcase the importance of protecting the nation's #mature and #oldgrowth forests - https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/the-u-s-has-cataloged-its-forests-now-comes-the-hard-part-protecting-them/
https://twitter.com/DDellasala/status/1651679560587706368

Actually with its second report the #ClimateForests Coalition has documented 22 federal #forests that are threatened by @BLMNational and @forestservice logging projects like the #UpperCheatRiver Project in #WestVirginia https://www.climate-forests.org/worth-more-standing
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RT @FORESTSFOREVER
#DYK that there are over 10 Climate-Saving Forests that are Currently Being Threatened by Federal Logging?? #StopTheChop #WorthMoreStanding #…
https://twitter.com/FORESTSFOREVER/status/1650964145104121882

Earth Day Rally urges @forestservice to protect #WestVirginia #OldGrowth #ClimateForests from #clearcuts. https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/morgantown-rally-urges-protection-for-trees-in-upper-cheat-river/

This week the @forestservice also wrote a letter to F.S. regions directing them to prioritize projects that "contribute toward the restoration of the structure and composition of old growth stands..." https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/mature-old-growth-guidance-regional-foresters.pdf Thank you @USDA and @DorisMatsui . :) #ClimateForests
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RT @DorisMatsui
.@USDA & @Interior announced new findings & initiatives to protect mat…
https://twitter.com/DorisMatsui/status/1649458566082723841

Press from the Forest Service announces the release of its mature and #OldGrowth inventory. A great first step in recognizing and protecting these #ClimateForests for their role in #climate and @water protection, #biodiversity and human healing.
https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/04/20/biden-harris-administration-announces-new-steps-climate-resilience

Including the #UpperCheatRiver Project in West Virginia. #ClimateForests https://www.climate-forests.org/worth-more-standing
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RT @JohnMuirProject
#DYK that there are over 10 Climate-Saving Forests that are Currently Being Threatened by Federal Logging?? #StopTheChop #WorthMoreStanding #ForestCarbonReserves #NaturalClimateSolutions #EndCommercialLoggingOnPublicLands
http://ow.ly/b4iS50NJuWm
https://twitter.com/JohnMuirProject/status/1647313939187785728

#ClimateForests Coalition highlights Earth Month Events in #WestVirginia . Events organized by @SierraClubWest1 @Sierrastudent @SaveBlackwater @WVECouncil and @Speak4Trees2 . Focused on our public lands, and our ecologically mature and #OldGrowth #forests https://www.climate-forests.org/events

Restored this old canner recently. Plan to collect some #ramps in the #forest and do some #canning soon. Hope we can appreciate old things like #OldGrowth #ClimateForests as much.

Posters for these events are available at: https://app.box.com/s/pofcp4bbrugx9ub3t2rpug0xe12azwt0
Participate in protecting the Earth and helping to save our #OldGrowth #ClimateForests by attending or by signing the petition at: https://www.saveblackwater.org/upper-cheat

Just saw this in a lecture by @georgehurtt Pretty groundbreaking stuff. I continue to be blown away with how important the Central #Appalachians turn out to be for #carbon storage at a global scale. Talk about #ClimateForests!
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RT @GlobalChangeBio
|| NEW RESEARCH ||
Spatial heterogeneity of global forest aboveground carbon stocks and fluxes constrained by spaceborne lidar data and mechanistic modeling

📄 https://bit.ly/3MfPJ1u …
https://twitter.com/GlobalChangeBio/status/1644007439585406977

Rally April 21 in Morgantown @WestVirginia to protect some of these #ClimateForests from @ForestSevice proposed #UpperCheatRiver Project #Clearcutting.
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RT @Earthjustice
Over 63 million acres of mature & old-growth forests safeguard carbon, water, & biodiversity across federal public lands, including over 5 million acres managed by @BLMNational & over 53 million acres managed by @forestservice.

Some 50 million acres are at risk f…
https://twitter.com/Earthjustice/status/1642888134064062472

The Monongahela @UsdaForest has scattered stands of hardwood #OldGrowth #Forest . Help save these #trees
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RT @SaveBlackwater
Stop the clearcuts. Stop the flooding. Come out on the 21st to protect the Upper Cheat Headwaters! These #ClimateForests are #WorthMoreStanding !
https://twitter.com/SaveBlackwater/status/1642906499696451592

Lets hope @Interior incorporates the importance of #ClimateForests
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RT @EnvAm
Thanks to @Interior @BLMNational @WHCEQ for this announcement on plans to protect #publiclands, #forests and #reconnectingnature for #wildlife
Our statement: https://environmentamerica.org/center/media-center/statement-biden-administration-announces-new-plan-to-restore-public-lands/
https://twitter.com/EnvAm/status/1641540293223759874

Thank you @BLMNational and @WHCEQ for making this first important step happen. We need strong conservation rules to help us in this critical time. Please protect mature and #oldgrowth #ClimateForests to fight #ClimateChange for future generations. https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-proposed-plan-guide-balanced-management-public-lands

Today @BLMNational announced that it is accepting comments on rules to re-define public lands management. U.S. @forestservice we hope you are not far behind. We need rules directing agencies on how to protect our #ClimateForests https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-proposed-plan-guide-balanced-management-public-lands

Department of @Interior takes an important step towards a new, strong conservation rule that will re-align @BLMNational public lands management with the needs of today. Part of that is protecting #ClimateForests from #clearcuts https://www.climate-forests.org/post/department-of-interior-moves-to-protect-mature-and-old-growth-trees-and-forests-from-logging

A web site about the #UpperCheatRiver Project of the #ForestService . Gives the details and highlights the issues of #Climate change that impact #Flooding and loss of #Biodiversity. The project is a threat to #ClimateForests that are #WorthMoreStanding.
https://nfip-abra.hub.arcgis.com/pages/usfs-upper-cheat-river

I thought @Mike__Tony might be interested in this and other climate and CO2 related posts about West Virginia from @Speak4Trees2 re: the Upper Cheat River Project
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RT @Speak4Trees2
Yet another science paper with mapping of above-ground #biomass showing how important the central #Appalachians are to U.S. #carbon storage. #ForestsService please don't #Clearcut these #ClimateForests. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/…
https://twitter.com/speak4trees2/status/1640544327821656064

Not only are the Central #Appalachians an important storehouse of #carbon but this article finds that they are an important worldwide site of additional carbon #sequestration. #ForestService do not #clearcut these #ClimateForests
"...dataset shows that eastern North America, the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Europe, boreal forests, southern China, and Southeast Asia are carbon sinks" https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/3013/2022/

Yet another science paper with mapping of above-ground #biomass showing how important the central #Appalachians are to U.S. #carbon storage. #ForestsService please don't #Clearcut these #ClimateForests. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569843222002965