Environmental Issues: Wildlands
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- Our Forests Aren't Fuel
Overview - Forests are for wild animals, fresh air, clean water, and hiking with our kids. But now industry wants to burn our forests for biomass electricity, polluting the air we breathe and stealing from future generations.
- How to Build a Better Home
A new approach to homebuilding saves trees and energy -- and makes for economical, comfortable homes.
Overview - A new approach to homebuilding saves trees and energy -- and makes for economical, comfortable homes.
- Rule Protecting National Forest Wildlands Is Vindicated in Court
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule preserves America's unspoiled wilderness, but it's under assault
News - In December 2002, a federal appeals court lifted a stay on the implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a landmark forest-conservation measure that the timber industry and its allies have fought tooth and nail. Will the Bush administration enforce it, or undermine it?
- Exhibits: U.S. Forest Service Efforts to Avoid Environmental Review
Testimony - The following exhibits pertain to testimony presented by Nathaniel Lawrence, NRDC senior attorney, on June 28, 2007, before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests & Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources.
- Testimony of Nathaniel Lawrence on S. 2593, the Forest Landscape Restoration Act
Testimony - Submitted to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, April 1, 2008.
- The Paper Business, Present and Future
Index - This index of information on paper and forestry shows where there's room for improvement, and why there's hope ahead.
- The Boreal Forest: Links
Index - NRDC is one of numerous organizations -- small and large, local and global -- that are coming together to try to preserve Canada's boreal forest. This page offers a list of online resources about the boreal.
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