Filed under: extinct
Union Valley Reservoir is a public land area and El Dorado National Forest, maintained by the USDA Forest Service.
The forest area for this study is located in the foot of the California Sierra, inside public land of El Dorado National Forest, surrounding Union Valley Reservoir. The area of the study is a 40 square mile area designed as public land, to the west of Union Valley Reservoir.
Objective: to expose private owners clear cutting on the public land and report to the government, EPA, the Sierra Club so they can pressure to implement Sustainable Forestry practices.
This study corresponded to superimposing a map from the National Atlas of the US, which clearly shows the public land, and private land demarcations, and by noticing that the public land in question, has been eroded due to clear cutting.
El Dorado National Forest Map
El Dorado National Forest showing clear cutting
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=38.907064,-120.397797&spn=0.341432,0.480652&z=11&msid=114551097380186191855.00045a902066934757372
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado/recreation/dev-camp/union/
west of lake tahoe, California
over a google earth shot, to find out that clear cutting is going on in the public side of Union Valley Reservoir, and between the reservoir and Loon Lake, West site of Lake Tahoe, in California.
impose map + google earth
10 miles marker inside park area:
west side of Union Valley Reservoir
Google earth shot, showing 40miles square area:
Union Valley Reservoir
Close up of the lake region that has been sacked and clear cut:
Union Valley Northern area
Background:
California old growth forest has been reduce to 3% left!
Filed under: extinct
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In what they describe as a world first, researchers from Australian and US universities extracted a gene from a preserved specimen of the doglike marsupial — formally known as a thylacine — and revived it in a mouse embryo.
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