Tag: logging
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Clear-cuts, Wildfires and Insecticides: My 2017 Pot Farm Observations
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2017 was my fourth season in a row working in the Cannabis industry in California, and it might well turn out to be my last, considering how rapidly the industry is changing, especially since the 2016 passage of Proposition 64 for adult recreational use. My employment has always been hourly, arranged with handshake contracts, and…
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Barbarous Deforestation in Western Ukraine
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Forests in the Ukrainian Carpathians are on the verge of extinction as the country faces an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportions, environmentalists say. Illegal loggers are illegally trafficking abroad entire trains of fir trees, earning millions of dollars. According to local residents, deforestation has dramatically intensified over the past two years. The scale of the…