A PROPOSAL to establish a forestry and logging project on Mount Nimham in Putnam County has brought a small but determined wave of opposition from local people.
The S.F.I. label, founded in 1994, certifies that logging projects in North America are environmentally sustainable.
Last summer's forest fires, for example, became an excuse to try to suspend environmental reviews of logging projects.
But Mr. Bush's proposals threaten to do just that, suspending or narrowing important statutes that require environmental review of logging projects and provide for citizen appeals.
Within a few days of arriving I heard word of protest activity in the Upper Florentine Valley, a pristine corner of virgin forest under threat from various logging projects.
Critics like Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group in Tucson, say attention to commercial byproducts might easily evolve into logging projects whose outlines would diverge from forest management.
At least 109 people were killed in Honduras between 2010 and 2015 for opposing infrastructure and logging projects, making it the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, according to the NGO Global Witness.
In less controversial ventures, Peace Boat's cruises in the Pacific have cast spotlights on the impact of mining and logging projects by Japanese companies and of past open-air nuclear tests by France.
In an increasingly well-coordinated movement, the lowland Indians are demanding that Mr. García withdraw decrees that ease the way for companies to carry out major energy and logging projects in the Peruvian Amazon.
The violence that engulfs many dam and logging projects on indigenous lands is a blatant injustice.
Kickstarter has enabled a private beta feature that's starting to show up for logged in project creators, offering a kind of community knowledge base that lets users ask questions and provide answers to other creators about crowdfunding and best practices.
