Tag: Trees
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Quotation of the Day: Yosemite’s Paradox: Cutting the Trees to Save the Park
“We don’t send people out to fight hurricanes and that’s what it’s starting to feel like for firefighters.” CICELY MULDOON, the superintendent of Yosemite National Park, explaining a shift to the preventative felling of trees as a way to control fires that now resemble hellish storms because of overgrown forests.
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Plans to Fight Global Warming Face an Obstacle in Paris: Trees
PARIS — Long a favorite spot for picnics and sunbathing, the lawns surrounding the Eiffel Tower have recently become the scene of furious protests. First came a social media campaign. Then a rally by dozens of local residents. Before long, a protester had hunkered down in a nearby plane tree for a hunger strike. The…