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News archives

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Forest environmentalists launch organization headquarters in Athens (OH)
A nonprofit organization that works to maintain environment-friendly forest economies opens its national headquarters in Athens tonight with a banquet. The National Network of Forest Practitioners’ location in Athens is the first in southeastern Ohio, a state rich in forests, said Kim Brown, ass... Continued...

State ponders resumptions of drilling in forests (PA)
The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is considering ending a moratorium that prohibits new oil and natural gas leases on state-owned forest land. It has been in place since 2003. The proposal is included in a draft update of the state's five-year forest management plan that ... Continued...

Cutting trees to save the forest (CA)
GARCIA RIVER WATERSHED, CALIFORNIA Chris Kelly is having an Al Gore moment. As he eases his truck down a rugged logging road on California’s North Coast, the state program director for The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit environmental group, is talking about global warming, carbon offsets and the... Continued...

USFS needs to be realistic about biomass potential
Just days ago, the Forest Service announced a proposal to convert woody biomass produced on forested lands to cellulosic ethanol to offset annual U.S. gasoline consumption by 15 percent (or by 35 billion gallons). The Forest Service identified “small trees” and “unhealthy underbrush” removed fro... Continued...

Nature has own 'let it burn' policy (MT)
The Rocky Mountain Front's Ahorn and Skyland fires, which firefighters fought from the beginning, racked up expense sheets of more than $16 million a piece. Fool Creek, the third large fire on the Front this summer, which initially was allowed to burn in the wilderness under a policy called "fire... Continued...

Aspens, symbol of the West, dying off (CO)
Lois Shaw of Collbran thinks it’s sad to see the black oozing sores on some aspen trees around Vega State Reservoir. Shaw doesn’t know how extensive the damage is, but she’d like it to stop. “Some of them look really bad,” she said. “Aspens are such a part of our valley. I would like to see someb... Continued...

Forest nations want billions for not logging (Australia)
A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR plan to protect forests and reduce global warming is to be backed by an alliance of nations that are home to more than 80 per cent of the world's tropical rainforests. The grouping of up to 20 countries will be announced during United Nations talks on climate change in New Y... Continued...

Pine Beetle will reshape our economy (Canada)
One constant in the 20 years that officials have been dealing with the mountain pine beetle is how unerringly pessimistic and alarming they've been in their predictions. There aren't many people who can be accused of optimism since the insects burst out of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park in the northw... Continued...

Amazon Farmers Grow Grain and Save the Forest (Brazil)
Santarem, Brazil - You might call it the greening of Chicken McNuggets. At first glance, there seems little common ground between fast-food giant McDonald's, US commodities multinational Cargill, and The Nature Conservancy, an environmental group. But here in the Brazilian Amazon, all three ... Continued...

Green Building Standards Challenged by Authority on Environmental Impacts of Building Materials (MN)
At a time when the home-buying public, architects, homebuilders, and government agencies are promoting “green” or environmentally friendly construction, a leading authority on the environmental impacts of building materials has challenged many of the assumptions and existing guidelines for so-called... Continued...

Aitkin County Landowners Recognized for Forest Stewardship (MN)
Aitkin, MN - The Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) hosted a forestry workshop on Saturday, September 8th. The workshop featured a tour of forestry practices and recent logging operations. The day also included recognition of the Aitkin County landowners who recently had the... Continued...

Gene-modified eucalyptus ingests more CO2 (Taiwan)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Eucalyptus trees genetically modified by a team of Taiwanese and U.S. biologists have proven capable of ingesting up to three times more carbon dioxide than normal strains, indicating a new path to reducing greenhouse gases and global warming, team members said yesterday. Under ... Continued...

Pittman-Robertson Act: 70 years of conservation dollars (US)
Even as The Great Depression of the 1930s forced the people and leaders of the United States to deal with the worst economic times in the country's history, some of the most enduring conservation legislation and programs ever conceived were begun. These economic conditions, compounded by drought ... Continued...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Trees telling a tale of climate change (NY)
ESPERANCE, N.Y. - If a grandmother suddenly started growing, something would be amiss. Now research has found that something similar is happening to the nation's oldest trees. Clues found in old-growth tree rings from Michigan to Maine show an increasing growth spurt during the last century, poss... Continued...

Friday, September 7, 2007

State looks at logging leftovers as fuel source (NY)
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is studying ways to convert leftover wood from logging into a biomass fuel. The agency has a $64,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service for a 1-year project to evaluate whether there'd be enough potential users in and around the Adirondack Park t... Continued...

Fall colors appearing early (MN)
Autumn color has appeared weeks earlier than usual this year, as the continuing drought has stressed trees and other plants in area forests. While much of northern St. Louis County received modest rains early in the week, it was likely too little, too late for most trees and shrubs. Many trees, esp... Continued...

Black walnut trees dying in The Dalles (OR)
Progress killed most of the black walnut trees in The Dalles, and now disease appears to be wiping out what's left. Bob Schecter of Pine Creek Wood Company in Dufur said only 20 to 30 black walnuts remain in The Dalles, and most are dead or dying. "My son and I were trying to come up with waln... Continued...

Coalition: Christmas trees are eco-friendly (OR)
The state’s two largest Christmas tree growers are joining forces to convince consumers that their product is the environmentally correct holiday choice. Corvallis-based Holiday Tree Farms and Yule Tree Farms of Canby planned to announce today the creation of the Coalition of Environmentally Con... Continued...

New tools map redwood forest (CA)
Somewhere deep in an unmapped ravine or inaccessible creek bottom in Northern California hides a secret. If it exists - and it might not - it would be as old as the Roman Colosseum, yet it has never attracted much notice. It is the tallest tree in the world, a Sequoia sempervirens - a California ... Continued...

Sudden Oak Death worsens along coast (CA)
Five years after the first reported cases of Sudden Oak Death, the disease that has infected millions of trees has reached epidemic levels in coastal California but has not significantly expanded its range, as feared. University of California researchers reported Friday that the pathogen is firml... Continued...