Let Them Grow song about saving old-growth trees, Dan Zales, composer and lead musician. Lyrics: “Let them grow, let them be, let them live for eternity…Nature work your magic ways, trees deserve another day.”
Climate Chaos & the Quabbin Woodlands, song by Don Ogden
Eastern Native Tree Society, Bob Leverett co-founder of this internet interest group: www.nativetreesociety.org
The Discovery of Old Growth Forests with Bob Leverett, Northampton Neighbors, Youtube
Proforestation – A Simple Solution to an Urgent Problem, YouTube, Moomaw, 2022
Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good, Moomaw, Masino, Faison, 2019
Fire Suppression and Climate Change: A Conversation with George Wuerthner, Walden Woods Project, 1/23, YouTube
Myth Busters: What the Forest Industry Wants Us to Believe About Cutting Forests, Bart Bouricious, Bill Stubblefield, Cheryl Joy Lipton, November 28, 2022
What are Industrial Forest Practices Costing Us? The Climate and Societal Costs of Logging, John Talberth, Kate Anderson, Ernie Niemi, YouTube, 12/20/22
The Truth about Carbon, Wildfire, & Biodiversity, Law, Hanson, Bond YouTube, 9/22
The Forests and the Trees: The Climate Solutions in Your Own Backyard (Massachusetts), Janet Sinclair, Sabrina Shankman, YouTube
Lost in the Woods: Industrial Logging's Unacknowledged Climate Impact, NRDC, 11/8/22, YouTube
Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, Part 2: Forests, 2022, YouTube
Sir David Attenborough’s COP26 speech, 11/2021, YouTube
Mapping USA Old-Growth Coast-to-Coast, DellaSala, 2022, YouTube
Proforestation – A Simple Solution to an Urgent Problem, Moomaw, 2022, YouTube
Setting the Stage: The Truth About Carbon, Wildfire, and Biodiversity, Law, Hanson, Bond, 2022
Books recommended by Monica & Bob Leverett:
Forest Forensics: Reading the Forested Landscape, Tom Wessels, Countryman Press, 2010
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Tom Wessels, Countryman Press, 2005
Davis, Mary Byrd, ed. Eastern Old-Growth Forests: Prospects for Rediscovery and Recovery. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Maloof, Joan. Nature’s Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests. Timber Press, Portland, OR 2016
Complete List of Forest Articles:
Does “Fuel Reduction” Logging in Wildlands Protect Communities from Wildfire? Chad Hanson
The Effects of Severe Fire and Salvage Logging, Monica Bond, 2022
The Critical Role of Forests and Trees in a Climate and Biodiversity Crisis, Moomaw interview with Lynne Man, Sierran, 2022
Letter from scientists to the signatories of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, DellaSala, Moomaw, et.al., 11/16/22
Scientists warning to humanity on tree extinctions, 8/22
AR6 Synthesis Report, IPCC, March, 2023
In a World on Fire, Stop Burning things: the truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels, Bill McKibben, 4/18/22
Nearly Every Country signs on to a sweeping deal to protect nature, NYT, 12/19/22
The Massachusetts Healthy Soils Action Plan
Has Climate Change Blinded Us to the Biodiversity Crisis? David Wallace-Wells, NYT, 12/21/22
Beyond Catastrophe, A new climate reality is coming into view, David Wallace-Wells, NYT, 10/26/22
Scientists: Logging in Primary Forests Drives Degradation, NRDC blog re: letter, 11/16
Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground,” Guardian, 10/8/22
Extreme heat will change us: Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measure the daily toll It is already taking, NYT, 11/18/22
Complete List of Proforestation Articles:
Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good, Moomaw, Masino, Faison, 2019
Growing existing forests essential in mitigating global crises, Tufts, Moomaw, 8/2019
Complete List of Old Growth Forest Articles:
The Old Man and the Tree, Smithsonian Magazine, Bob Leverett, 1/2022
What you should know about protecting the US’s old forests, Woodwell, 4/20/23
What the World Will Lose if Ancient Trees Die Out, NYT, 10/20/22