I just posted a comment to his blog but not sure if he got it or not - I clicked comment and it just vanished. hahah
https://theecologist.org/2015/sep/14/biosphere-collapse-biggest-economic-bubble-ever
I very strongly believe that we have surpassed the amount of impact on terrestrial ecosystems and primary forests in particular that is possible and still maintain the biosphere and a habitable planet. I often use the term ‘old forests’ to also capture regenerating secondary forests, planted natural forests that are allowed to age and forests that are approaching old growth status. We have lost more of that type of forest than we can afford to lose.
You know, there’s a recent scientific paper out that identifies various tipping points, and this is one. In my scientific opinion there is just no more justification for industrial logging of primary forests. Now, the small-scale community milling the timber themselves to make furniture locally—no problem! That’s entirely different than a hundred thousand hectare concessions that are selective, but are so dwindling the genetic stock through taking out the high quality stems that what you have left is a completely different structure, a completely different dynamic and composition, and is on its way to becoming a tree farm.
So, somewhere along the lines sustainable forest management went from ecologically sustaining these patterns and processes to sustaining timber yields. I think there is no problem with sustaining timber yields in naturally planted forests that are free of toxins and with secondary forests that are historically logged, but I really strongly believe that the science shows that we need to hold onto intact, large, core ecosystems as planetary reserves, if you will, to allow the weather and the other ecological patterns to which we are accustomed to continue to operate.
Estimates are that less than one-fifth of Earth’s original forests remain in large,
relatively intact natural primary ecosystems (Bryant et al., 1997). Conversion of forests
and other natural ecosystems to agriculture, averaging 0.8 percent annually over
the past 40-50 years, is the major force reducing terrestrial ecosystems (Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). Some 70 percent of the land that was deforested
was changed to agricultural land (United Nations Environment Programme, 2002).
Most existing protected areas are small, isolated, and fragmented (Soule´ and Terborgh,
1999a). At current persistent rates of deforestation, tropical forests will not remain
outside protected areas 35 years from now (Terborgh and van Schaik, 1997).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265969387
"Terrestrial ecosystem loss and biosphere collapse," Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal · August 2014
Well that was 15 years ago - and now it's kind of too late...but his online activism did help!
Ecological Internet‘s online campaigns—with thousands of supporters around the world—have helped stop a palm oil company from deforesting a pristine island in the South Pacific; added pressure to the government of Madagascar to ban the exporting of illegally logged rosewood; and stalled an industrial logger in Papua New Guinea from clearcutting against local wishes to name just a few of the organization’s successes.He works with Rainforest Action Network - just as I did in the mid-90s....
. I have a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Marquette University where I studied International Affairs then I was in the Peace Corps for some time in Papua New Guinea where I really fell in love with rainforests like many people before me.
I came back to the University of Wisconsin in Madison to do a Masters degree in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development, and got sucked into academia and decided to do the full ride for a PhD. So, I have a PhD in Land and Resources which is at the University of Wisconsin where Aldo Leopold taught...
Wow - that's where my activist mentor also got his Ph.D. in - actually it was "resource economics" - so maybe not the same department. I'm sure they know each other since Madison is a small city. Very wild that in 1992 I did a certificate in the SAME program in Costa Rica School for Field Studies Conservation Biology and Sustainable Developmentand I got it fully transferred to my UW-Madison credits for my degree.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Environmental Conservation Professional Master’s Program prepares students for leadership positions in environmental groups, government organizations, and related businesses.
OK it's continuing education - just like my own Liberal Studies master's degree was in "continuing education"
The Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development (CBSD) master's program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison accepted its first cohort of students in 1990
WOW - I could have stayed at Madison to do that master's degree. hahaha. That was two years after I did it at School for Field Studies in Costa Rica - as a semester certificate.
The program was later transformed into the Environmental Conservation (EC) program, which began accepting applications in Fall 2013
Environmental Conservation program placement in the wild
Wow - so glad they are doing "job placement in conservation biology research" as part of the program. Very cool. My girlfriend at the time did conservation biology work in Wisconsin right after her degree - so I stuck around in Madison for another year. Then we moved back to Minnesota and she went into conservation biology in the Peace Corps in Morocco....Dr. Glen Barry was first starting in Madison around the same time I was leaving Madison (in 1993-1994)!!
when I came back to do my Master’s degree that was a way to remain involved and to continue to harness the tools: we used the Gopher protocol and we put up the first web server on http://Forests.org in 1993.
Madison, Wisconsin - The reach and usefulness of the "Forest Conservation Portal" at http://forests.org/ has been studied in a recently published Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Global Forests and the Internet: Assessing the Reach and Usefulness of the 'Forest Conservation Portal'". The document was released today by Dr. Glen Barry, the President and founder of Forests.org, and can be downloaded at http://forests.org/info/phd.htm .Wow - so that was his Ph.D.!
This is the guy the Democrats were praising for coming to the 3rd to hold a “town hall”.This disgusting conduct is unlawful and I do not believe there is a statute of limitations for these horrific crimes.“In 2002 or thereabouts, Mr Pocan publicly regaled half a dozen of his close associates and me with a story of having recently traveled to Costa Rica for the explicit purpose of seeking out sex with underage boys.-Dr. Glen Barry
Good for Dr. Glen Barry!
https://drglenbarry.blogspot.com/2012/07/wisconsin-congressman-mark-pocan-spoke.html
Sadly, however, he revealed to others and me that he had traveled to Costa Rica
to have sex with children.
In 2002 or thereabouts, Mr. Pocan publicly regaled half a dozen of his close associates and me with a story of having recently traveled to Costa Rica for the explicit purpose of seeking out sex with underage boys. We were at the local Democratic Party watering hole – drinking on a weekend like we had done many times before. Mr. Pocan told the story of traveling to Costa Rica for sex tourism with boys with great gusto. He included numerous and graphic details regarding how the Gulf coast of Costa Rica was full of children from poor fishing villages – described at length as being firm, young, and willing – that would congregate at local hotels, and for a few dollars go with you to your room for a night of sex.Mr. Pocan later pulled me aside and told me bluntly that if I spoke of the matter again I was not welcome in his company. I chose to never socialize with Mr. Pocan and his entourage again. Soon I graduated with a PhD, and moved away from Madison for several years to protect the world’s rainforests. We have a close mutual friend, remained in loose contact as facebook friends on his initiative, and last year as I prepared to return to the area, Mr. Pocan provided a reference for one job application. I have recently moved back to Madison, and have had random, friendly, yet distant contact with Mr. Pocan on a couple occasionDr. Glen Barry created Global Eco-AI...
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