It's often good if secrets are redacted in logs: This avoids accidental publication of a user PIN (or decrypted payload) in bug reports.
On the other hand, it can be useful for a developer to have full and verbatim logs (including secrets) for debugging.
We started work on this, but would like to hear from you. What should we do?
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was pressured by activists to remove an area with ancient trees that was set to be logged as part of the Poor Windy project"
“This tree sit has exposed the inexcusable malpractice of the BLM and demonstrated the power of community organizing. Direct action is the last line of defense…"
Where will all the microbats go when the NSW forests are logged and clear-felled?
Decline of rare UK bat linked to tree felling for British empire’s fleets
"Rife deforestation 500 years ago aligns with western barbastelle slump, finds study of bat DNA."
"The examples of flora and fauna disappearing because of human excesses over the past 50 years are manifold, but research has found that the decline of a characterful bat began in the UK when its trees were felled for shipbuilding 500 years ago."
"“These bats usually roost in mature oak and beech trees, and move around every few nights – so they benefit from areas with substantial woodland cover. Our findings reveal that the northern and southern British populations have declined over several centuries, beginning about 500 years ago. This coincides with a period of widespread tree-felling to supply wood for colonial shipbuilding. It is likely that the decline we found was triggered by this loss of woodland – which has continued since that period.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/decline-of-rare-uk-bat-linked-to-tree-felling-for-british-empires-fleets
Another tree was cut down along the trail. I think they're trying to eliminate some of the growth to prevent a fire, but I didn't see anything wrong with this particular tree.
I have to assume the Forest Service knows what they're doing.
‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction
"Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law. Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive."
The Biden administration has announced a plan to protect America's remaining old-growth trees in national forests from commercial #logging.
Timber industry leaders, however, are most definitely not fans of the proposal.
They want the administration to let them keep "thinning" old-growth #forests. They want a green light to log other forests before they even get a chance to become old-growth.
The #Oregon Timber Industry Won Huge #Tax Cuts in the 1990s. Now It May Get Another Break Thanks to a Top Lawmaker.
As the cost of fighting #wildfires increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the #logging industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from the biggest landowners and onto taxpayers.
Looking to build a simple #python#app on top of my search project for a nicer #UI and eventually doing some #monitoring & #logging of user activity. Haven’t worked on this since uni when we used #flask and sometimes a bit of #django. Anyone have any good insights / best practices / favorite reference for something like this?
Poland to halt logging in 10 of its most ancient forests
"#Poland is home to some of Europe’s last surviving ancient woodlands but its forests have been devastated by an onslaught of #logging.
Paulina Hennig-Kloska, who was appointed climate and environment minister last month after far-right and nationalist parties failed to form a coalition, said on Monday that the half-year moratorium in forests across the country was the first step to limiting logging."
"While nearly 56 million acres of well-established trees at least a century old remain in the region, logging has shattered this forest, leaving behind a patchwork of isolated stands of trees that has created a landscape less able to support wildlife, according to the study. And it has made the land more susceptible to #wildfire, scientists say."
Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, making it a pivotal region for global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis and climate change. But intense development pressure and global consumption are transforming the region’s landscapes, fragmenting forests, degrading waterways...
"The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of #OldGrowth trees on federal land by revising management plans for #NationalForests and grasslands across the U.S. as #ClimateChange amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease.
Older forests offer crucial wildlife habitat and other environmental benefits. The timber industry has fought against #logging restrictions on government-owned lands."
Logging and koalas do not mix
Spoiler: End native forest logging altogether, seek World Heritage protection for these forests.
"Koalas cannot read maps, and do not understand human zoning. If their habitat in plantations is cleared, they die – just as we’ve seen in Victoria, where deaths of koalas in blue gum plantations have made national news."
"For a koala-protecting National Park to actually protect koalas, it must be based on the identification and reservation of high value habitat – such as hardwood plantations. If we leave all plantations out, some of the best habitat in the park will continue to be logged. Without plantations, the park will be filled with holes, severing critical corridors and hampering the movement of koalas."
What should we do?
"We have to restore the areas lost to logging and the Black Summer bushfires and flag more forested areas for inclusion – especially unburnt habitat. And the government has to end logging within the proposed park area. If we want a viable alternative, the government should begin new plantations outside the park area and buy out existing logging contracts inside the park. Logging and koalas do not mix."
Logging practices:
"It's basically dead" AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging in Victoria
"An AI-based analysis of 20 years of VicForests’ logging, researchers say, shows the scale of failed regeneration in Victoria’s state forests.The data, which has been shared exclusively with the ABC, suggests that 20 per cent of Victoria’s state forests have not regenerated after logging.... That’s almost 13,000 hectares of state forest the analysis found to be standing in a state of ruin."
"Now the state is shutting its native logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, VicForests, are being returned to the public."
"By law, the logging agency is required to regenerate the areas it has logged and hand them back to the public in a healthy state. But until now, how much that has actually happened has largely been a mystery."
Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia (news.mongabay.com)
Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, making it a pivotal region for global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis and climate change. But intense development pressure and global consumption are transforming the region’s landscapes, fragmenting forests, degrading waterways...
Firm at the centre of Vanuatu logs issue is not a Chinese company says Embassy (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Vanuatu Forest Industry Limited is a Vanuatu company and not a Chinese company, according to China's Embassy in Port Vila.