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Top (or lid) of the lower spruce stump while covered in Variable-leaved Crestwort (Lophocolea heterophylla) in the spring of 2014 Not sure the date on this photo is correct but my attempts to change it have failed. The dark liverwort is Rustwort (Nowellia curvifolia) and it has ‘colonised’ other spruce logs on the Boggy Brae before other mosses and liverworts have got to them. The pale green is…

Excerpt from this story from Earth Island Journal:

Ponderosa pine and aspen seedlings nestle together in cherry red tubs in the John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center in northern New Mexico. The room smells damp and a fan buzzes at the ceiling. Owen Burney, superintendent of the research center and associate professor with New Mexico State University, stands over the fluttering rows, the pale and bluish green shades of new leaves and needles, describing the torture he puts them through.

“We really are bringing them to the edge of death,” he says.

The persistent thread in studies of North American forests bodes of a grim future. While many of these forests adapted alongside recurrent wildfire — and some birds and beetles prefer burn scars and some plants only cast out seeds after being burned over — the balance is off now. A century of fire suppression left denser forests that burn more intensely, destroying thousands of acres of trees at a time instead of leaving behind a mosaic of unburned adult trees that can re-seed a new forest. Climate change is both increasing fire activity, as attested by the many fires currently burning in California, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, and making for warmer, drier conditions that mature trees may endure, but seedlings can’t survive. An article published in the journal BioScience in July found that after high-severity fires, a lack of tree seed sources, a warmer and drier climate, and recurrent wildfires are all limiting forests’ abilities to recover. Landscape-changing events are likely to happen more often and on a larger scale. Some regions could lose a third to half of their traditional forests, reshaping the ecosystem and watershed for all life in and around it, including people downstream.

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PHOTOS: Panacea Foundation set to plant 5,000 tree seedlings in BUK

A Non-Governmental Organization, NGO, Panacea Foundation  has launched planting of 5,000 tree seedlings at Bayero University, Kano, BUK. Founder of Panacea Foundation, Dr Dahiru Hashim, speaking at the event, held at BUK on Friday, said the event was a phase two of Kano Afforestation Drive introduced by the group to plant 100,000 trees in Kano metropolis. Solacebase reports that the 2nd edition…