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News archives

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Pilot Dual FSC/SFI Certification Audits of Selected National Forest Units and the Development of Additional Considerations that Augment the FSC Regional Standards
A draft set of Additional Considerations intended to augment the FSC Pacific Coast Regional Standard and to be used in a simulated certification audit (“pilot audit”) of the Lakeview Federal Stewardship Unit in south-central Oregon is available for stakeholder review and comment. Considering input ... Continued...

Community effort leads to preservation of rare Mississippi River bluff ‘sand prairie’ (WI)
A successful community effort has led to the preservation of the last remnant of a rare type of prairie nestled along Mississippi River bluffs, a remnant that has remained undisturbed from a time before French fur traders and explorers paddled the nearby Mississippi and Black rivers. And it all ... Continued...

Forest fuel collection business wins grant (MT)
It's easy to find uses for small-diameter trees and woody biomass. It's not so easy to find a cost-effective way of getting that material from the forest to the people who can use it. But Craig Thomas and his Ravalli County business, All Woody Resources, are working on a method of collecting logg... Continued...

Timber, conservation groups reach deal on Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forest plan (MT)
Saying they're tired of the decades of fighting that's stalled everything from timber sales to new wilderness designations, a group of timber industry leaders and conservationists on Monday unveiled their vision for the future management of Montana's largest national forest. The accord - which th... Continued...

Tapping Into a Changing Climate (VT)
Sitting in his son's sugarhouse, Rex Marsh, 71, can recall winters so cold that no one in northern Vermont ever thought of tapping a sugar maple before town meeting day on the first Tuesday of March. The winter snow routinely drifted 6 feet deep. Every sluggish step was in snowshoes. Even if the ... Continued...

Diverse tropical forests defy metabolic ecology models
As global change accelerates, quantifying the role of forests in the carbon cycle becomes ever more urgent. Modelers seek simple predictors of forest biomass and carbon flux. Over the last decade, the theory of metabolic ecology generated testable explanations, derived from physical and biochemical ... Continued...

Cedar stands at risk (Canada)
For months on end, he chips, whittles and chisels a long, piece of old growth cedar to produce what's arguably become B.C.'s most recognized cultural symbols: The totem pole. But without cedar, world-renowned artists such as Jim Hart are left without a canvas. According to B.C.'s First Natio... Continued...

'Environmental justice' an emerging topic in Rockies (CO)
Low income and minority neighborhoods in the Rocky Mountain region’s urban areas are faced with a disproportionate share of environmental risks, according to the State of the Rockies report issued by Colorado College last week. “We found striking patterns of what we call environmental goods and b... Continued...

Oak killer most likely imported from Asia (CA)
An oak-tree-killing microbe that has frightened arborists and naturalists tracking its inexorable spread across the United States was probably introduced to the New World in commercial plants, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers. The genetic analysis of 151 isolates of the sudden... Continued...

School Forest offers lessons beyond the classroom (WI)
The Nels P. Evjue Memorial Forest, better known as the Merrill School Forest, is a place where education meets nature not only for students but for an entire community. The forest is comprised of 764 acres of mixed hardwoods and conifers on the rolling hills north of Merrill. A trail system wind... Continued...

House OKs bill to let voters decide outdoor funds (MN)
Voters in November would be asked to dedicate a portion of the state's sales tax to preserving the outdoors and the arts under a bill that passed the House on Tuesday, its most significant progress in six years of debate. The vote presages deliberations with the Senate about whether the sales tax s... Continued...

Forest Service public comment rules nixed
A federal judge struck down regulations that limited the public's ability to challenge U.S. Forest Service decisions on timber sales and other projects. The judge issued an injunction Monday against a2 rule that required people to specify objections to Forest Service projects while they are unde... Continued...

Environment gets mixed report card (MN)
Minnesotans are recycling at about the same rate as a decade ago, but they're also producing more trash than ever before. And because of a state population increase, so much more garbage is being created that Minnesota will need new landfills and incinerators sooner than expected. That's one o... Continued...

New Wildlife Management Area will help protect ecological "crown jewel" (GA)
Conservationists dedicated the state's newest Wildlife Management Area on Wednesday, as a result of a partnership that will mean additional protection for the Broxton Rocks, a south Georgia sandstone rock outcropping with deep crevasses and waterfalls that provides a home for hundreds of plant and a... Continued...

Tasmania: one forest, two camps (Australia)
The hills of the Weld Valley in southern Tasmania, Australia, are blanketed with forests. Their value to the economy of the remote region is both in their beauty, which attracts tourists, as well as the raw material that is vital to a timber industry that employs 8,000 people in the state. Passions ... Continued...

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

TreeTop Barbie (WA)
During weekly lab lunch at The Evergreen State College, Nalini Nadkarni and other International Canopy Network (ICAN) researchers were inspired: Why not make a Barbie that's strong, adventurous, loves science and has fun in the forest? They wrote and called Mattel, the Barbie toymaker, but no respon... Continued...

China deal may increase log exports from Alaska
Plant inspectors from China will visit Alaska in late April to do site inspections of log sources, a move that could greatly improve the bottom line for the state's timber exporters, state officials said. Chinese officials want assurances that Alaska timber harbors no pinewood nematodes, microsc... Continued...

Warming climate adds to forest fire woes in Alaska
The internal time clock for Alaska's boreal forest calls for a good, healthy forest fire every 150 years or so. The trouble is, fires in the forest that covers Alaska from below the Brooks Range to above the Panhandle have been coming fast and frequently. Climate warming has accelerated condition... Continued...

Parks feel '80 percent' squeeze
The Bush administration has ordered America's national parks to show that they can function at 80 percent or less of their operating budgets, which is forcing some parks to cut services for visitors as summer approaches. National Park Service officials said the initiative was an effort to cope wi... Continued...

Groups assail plan as timber sale in disguise (ID)
Environmental groups say a planned forest thinning project in northern Idaho by the U.S. Forest Service is really a timber sale that will do more harm than good. The Forest Service wants to thin about 900 acres of forest that surrounds at least 35 homes six miles north of Bonners Ferry to reduce ... Continued...