Climate Change
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
Hunting Season (time of great troubles for the animal species)
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| Trail and right of way used by some hunters to set up blinds. In September it is flooded by storms, but will be soon trodden by hunters. |
Hunting is completely unnecessary in the species' forest. This trail, which is also a right of way, which is now flooded with rain water from a September storm, will soon be used by hunters to get deep in the species' forest and kill native animal mega-fauna. For the time being at least, Buckland State Forest species' forest is mostly canopied which maintains the native animals species numbers in a dynamic equilibrium. Under the canopy, hunting actually destabilizes this natural population balance by random killings and by hunters altering animal behavior.
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| The person who logged this place without consulting the State has appeared in court. Friends of BSF was told by a State ecologist that all logs should be returned to the forest floor for natural decomposition. We agree. |
When large mature native trees are felled by legal or illegal loggers or wood cutters the forest canopy leafs lower to the ground as saplings or, actually on the ground, as brush and weeds. When the uppermost canopy is gone this alters everything. Species' forests are supposed to have complete leafy, bird filled, mammal filled, insect filled and vine filled canopies high high up and out of reach. High canopy leaves limit browsing on the forest floor and thus stabilize deer populations.
One of the lesser problems in Buckland State Forest species' forest is trash.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
April 2015 Species' Forest Circuit Tour in Cooperation with Friends of Buckland State Forest
SPECIES' FOREST CIRCUIT TOUR
Welcome forest mountain guardians, ethical vegans, ethical vegetarians, ethical conservationists, writers, all progressives and vegan atheists. Free and open to the public!
April 25, 10:00 AM, rendezvous at Deerfield River overlook, visitors center, 75 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA (US) Free, Public invited.
(802) 258 7845
(802) 258 7845
Towns of Buckland, Conway, Ashfield, Conway Street, Summer Street, South Street, Conway Road, Shelburne Falls Road, Wilder Hill Road, Baptist Corner Road, March Road, Bray Road, Ashfield Street, and the mountains within.
Same weekend as: Sunday, 4/26, New England Vegfest, Worcester, MA (US)
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| Illegal logging in Buckland State Forest |
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| Logging without a logging plan. |
There will be a public tour by car and on foot at a selected group of mountains in Massachusetts (US). The circuit will be the shortest public road circumnavigation of the selected mountains. On this day it will be ten miles by car stopping at a variety of locations. We will visit several “conserved” forests and learn that conservation means something different to those in control. From the outside forests may simply look the same, but these forest are not protected over time. In some cases you may return in a decade or so only to find the forest logged or gone. How can that be if they are “conservation” land? What is being conserved? You will learn that only a species’ forest set-aside is returned to nature complete. Only the species’ forest is conserved, restored and preserved for the Rights of Nature. There is always some Human purpose which always harms other forests. This tour is in cooperation with Friends of Buckland State Forest.
A species’ forest is of, by and for all the other native plants, animals, fungi and soil microbes which occupy or have occupied their forest. Why does species have an apostrophe?
Species Forest, Inc. is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization organized in Massachusetts, US. Please call Richard Stafursky at (802) 258 7845 for information or email rhstafursky@yahoo.com. New Web site is http://speciesforest.blogspot.com/,
old Web site is http://wslfconwaymausa.blogspot.com/ [World Species List]
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Triage
Triage
Very, very sad for the forest
Buckland State Forest, Buckland, MA (US) has been triaged as a WOODLAND (aka tree plantation). We sent a complaint to the Massachusetts government administration during the triage, but they did not listen. Triage will be hard to undo, but undo we must.
Forests under state and federal management face the same dangers. Caution! The link here is of most forest organizations in the US and some other nations, but ask yourself the question, "Does this organization listed protect the species' forest or does it protect the rights of people to exploit the forest?" It can't do both. The slightest use of a forest harms the forest forever. There is no win win. The forest always loses if used in any way by people (e.g. trails, logging, hunting) and the forest gradually slips out of the natural dynamic equilibrium which it needs to survive as a species' forest. See federal list http://www.discovertheforest.org/partners/ , US Forest Service (www.fs.fed.us) Forest Partners.
Under the US Obama administration they are getting better at promotion, but the US Forest Service is still run buy the forest resource stakeholders. A stakeholder is an organization or person who has a property or money interest in some action. Ethical conservationists are not stakeholders. As individuals, ethical conservationists have no personal profit as their goal. State and federal foresters and employed ecologists are stakeholders.
Beware of stakeholder words and expressions. Does that word come from a forest industry or was that term co-oped by industry. Beware sloppy words that originally were used by the GREENS, but have been adopted by industry. For example, the word biodiversity has been adopted by nearly all forestry companies who say they are interested in biodiversity when in fact they log native forests and this prevents the return of the species' forest. Also, WOODLANDS is just another name for a tree plantation. "Best practices" is just another name for forest management, yet a species' forest does not need to be managed.
When you see a list of forest organizations find out what is their history. Don't trust their printed mission statement. See http://speciesforest.blogspot.com/ .
A species' forest is of, by and for all the other plants, animals, fungi and soil microbes that occupy their forest. A species' forest is not managed by or for people.
Join our friends group this spring and summer 2015. All welcome. Our sole purpose is to protect.
Best wishes,
Richard (Dick) Stafursky
802 258 7845 ( c e l l )
Friends of Buckland State Forest, Ashfield, MA (US)
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Conference in United Nations, December 2014 : A Universal Declaration of Rights of Nature ?
Important words for the Friends of Massachusetts State Parks
OCCUPY
RIGHTS OF NATURE
CLIMATE
DIVEST CARBON
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
"Woodlands" Is A Term Used By Commercial Foresters.
Buckland State Forest has been defined as a "woodlands" by logging interests. This designation will make it very difficult for Friends to stop commercial logging here, but Friends will try. For years commercial loggers have looked upon Buckland State Forest with envious eyes and they have quietly made their plans.
If you are not a member of LinkedIn it is easy to do and it is free. The above link will ask you to join.
The above question was answered by hundreds of people both government workers and ordinary people. Ordinary people are great contributors to projects and ideas because their job is not at stake. Too often we go to meetings where professional foresters and professional ecologists answer questions by simply referencing code, law, government policy, "best practice" management practices written by commercial foresters and many other "official" resource guides.
South River State Forest, Conway, MA (US) is only a few miles from Buckland State Forest. It is a little lower in altitude and it is adjacent to the Deerfield River. Other than that the forest is just about the same.
South River State Forest is about to be logged by private contractors. The public cannot trust the reports and studies done by the state. That is because logging in Massachusetts' lands are motivated and legislated by stakeholders and not ethical conservationists. A stakeholder is a person or organization which as a money or property interest in some action. Only ethical conservationists have an interest in the well being of the forest and do not intervene except for true management of human caused problems (such as invasives, forest diseases and non-native species). The healthiest forest is a species' forest (aka a natural forest). Consultants who are hired by the state, by definition, never are independent experts. They are always looking for the next paying customer and that is usually the State.
So check out these global and nationwide thoughts written by stakeholders and non-stakeholder alike.
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