Imagine you have excellent eyes, excellent hearing, and excellent predator avoidance skills. You see a moving animal that is not your friend and you take a little time to judge its nearness, its speed of travel, and you move away, avoiding becoming its next meal. Now imagine the predator is suddenly on top of you and you don’t know how it ran so fast to get there. The predator somehow moved from there to you at a speed you have no experience with. You are its next meal. That’

There was much to celebrate this Earth Day! President Biden traveled to the Pacific Northwest to sign an Executive Order to expand his Administration’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Among other things, the order will safeguard mature and old-growth forests on federal lands, and in doing so, it signals that this Administration recognizes just how critical large and mature trees on federal lands are to our nation’s climate mitigation strategy. Specifically, it directs t