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News archives

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Video Tells Aitkin County Certification Story (MN)
Since its premiere at the Great Lakes Forest Alliance Conference in June, Forest floor to Showroom Floor: Marketing Green Forestry in Minnesota has generated quite a buzz. So much so that we decided to post the vi... Continued...

Guyana in forest carbon first
Fourteen developing countries, including Guyana, have been selected as the first states to receive money for combating tropical deforestation and climate change from an initial US$82M partnership between those countries and nine industrialized states, according to a press release from the World Bank... Continued...

Scattered Woodlands Complicate Forest's Response to Climate Change (WI)
If a warmer Wisconsin climate causes some northern tree species to disappear in the future, it's easy to imagine that southern species will just expand their range northward as soon as the conditions suit them. The reality, though, may not be nearly so simple. A model developed by University of W... Continued...

A Santa Barbara area canyon's residents are among many Californians living in harm's way in fire-prone areas
Sometimes when Ralph Daniel looks out the huge plate-glass windows of his 1959 ranch house, a bobcat stares back at him from the patio. He delights in the quiet, the bird songs, the expansive view of the Santa Ynez Mountains. Like millions of other Californians, Daniel, 63, likes to live on natur... Continued...

Alaska forests hit with more wildfires, infestations as climate changes
It was just getting cool when Glenn Juday went out to see his trees. The leaves were still on the birch and aspen, and the summer growing season was lingering. But it was already October, and gathering data would be much harder once it snowed. So Juday had to hurry. “I’ll work till dark,” he had ... Continued...

Wildfire linked to bugs, warming (WA)
A forest fire burning southeast of Mount Adams is the latest manifestation of a troubling relationship between climate change, insects and wildfires, scientists and land managers say. A lightning strike started the Cold Springs fire July 12 in dead and dying trees. As of Friday, the fire had cov... Continued...

Judge OKs DNR plan to protect lynx from traps (MN)
Federal Judge Michael Davis has approved a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources plan designed to limit the trapping of the federally-listed Canada Lynx in northeastern Minnesota. DNR officials developed the plan under Davis’s order, issued in March 2008, after he found that the state agency ... Continued...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Man who stole timber near Lake Wenatchee sentenced to prison (WA)
A Camano Island man who stole some rare old-growth timber near Lake Wenatchee has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle in Spokane also ordered Kevin J. Moran to pay $37,688.77 for the value of the trees. Moran pleaded guilty in December to t... Continued...

Missouri Town Powered Entirely By Wind
Missouri's a pretty tough place to grow most crops. But there's one thing they've got plenty of: wind. So a small town, Rock Port, has decided to use the powerful breezes to its advantage, building four wind turbines to provide power to their town. "That's something to be very proud of, especiall... Continued...

Ingenuity at the Service of Sustainable Biomass (Latin America)
A company will extract silver from the same contaminants it proposes to clean up; a cooperative of the formerly unemployed will export designer clothing; some small farmers are planting new varieties of manioc that double the yield with fewer agro-toxins; others are linking agriculture in the Amazon... Continued...

Fishing for Birds in Venezuela
Call it the iBird. David Ascanio, ornithologist, birder and tour leader, has been listening for, identifying, and “fishing” for birds for over 20 years. In 1984, he ascended Mount Roraima with a hiking group, and helped produce the first contemporary record of a roraiman nightjar (Caprimulgus wh... Continued...

'Not a good year' for Canadian forestry
Losses among Canada's largest forest companies increased more than 560 per cent in 2007 from 2006, the worst performance in the sector in the world, according to a report released Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The report -- which looks at the 100 largest forest, paper and fibre-based packa... Continued...

Tract of B.C. forest set to be saved for caribou
An endangered population of mountain caribou is expected to be the focus of an announcement today billed as "a conservation initiative of global significance," and said to involve a large tract of wilderness in southeastern British Columbia. Environment Minister John Baird and John Lounds, presid... Continued...

Paper's weight: Technology has added to the load
Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society. Today, many such experts would settle for a society that simply uses a little less paper. "The paperle... Continued...

Incentives for Carbon Sequestration May Not Protect Species
Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Acade... Continued...

Proposed rule would classify prohibited and restricted invasive species (WI)
A proposed rule aimed at slowing the spread of invasive species into Wisconsin by restricting the sale, planting or release of the most troublesome invaders will be the topic of public hearings statewide in August. The rule would establish two categories of invasive species of plants, animals and... Continued...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

EPA Begins Sketching Carbon Capture and Storage Framework (U.S.)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday began etching the regulatory framework for the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Capturing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants and injecting it deep in the earth is touted by many as a potential weapon against clim... Continued...

Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature in New Constitution
On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly – composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country’s Constitution – voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. “If adopted in the final consti... Continued...

California Burns Through Its Firefighting Funds. Homeowner Fees Ahead?
California spent $412 million fighting wildfires last fiscal year – a record. Just two weeks into the new budget year, the state has already burned through a third of that total. Firefighting costs far surpass their budget allotment, even as the state's $15 billion overall deficit has officials ... Continued...

Pine beetle threat grows in the West (U.S.)
Amy Gannon, hatchet in hand, sliced a slab of bark from a lodgepole pine tree near Wolf Creek, Mont., and quickly spotted a mountain pine beetle larvae no bigger than her pinky fingernail. "This tree's done for," said Gannon, an entomologist with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Co... Continued...