Andy Mahler, the valiant defender of America’s backwoods, lived in and learned from the forests he spent much of his life fighting to protect from senseless destruction and corporate exploitation. When much of the mainstream environmental movement wrote off rural people, Mahler built a powerful movement among them: decentralized, democratic and rooted in place. Mahler was a visionary, whose capacity for empathy, for both humans and the natural world, was matched only by his steely refusal t...| CounterPunch.org
Forests have a greater purpose than being chopped down for paper, packaging, or pellets. Our forests could do so much for the climate if we let them grow old.| Dogwood Alliance