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Friday, May 17, 2013
A survey conducted by the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory & Analysis program has provided insight into behavioral patterns and motivating factors for the nation’s 10 million family forest ownerships.
The survey collected data through a self-administered survey from more than 10,000 landowners selected at random...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A recent state-by-state study finds that U.S. urban trees store carbon and provide billions in economic value. America's urban forests store an estimated 708 million tons of carbon, an environmental service with an estimated value of $50 billion, according to a recent Forest Service study. The annual net carbon uptake by...
Friday, May 3, 2013
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has decided to fully rebuild a state tree nursery in eastern Kentucky that was devastated by a tornado last year. The state had been planning to divert insurance claim money to fill a budget gap.
Woodland owners and the Kentucky timber industry have been asking the governor to rebuild,...
Friday, April 26, 2013
This week NASF joined numerous organizations in the forestry community in letters to the Senate. The letters mirrored those sent to the House last week in support of FY2014 appropriations for priority programs at the USDA Forest Service including: Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Forest Health Program, Urban and...
Monday, April 22, 2013
The role of tree DNA tracking is increasing in the fight against illegal logging as evidenced by prosecution cases in USA and Germany. Modern DNA technology offers a unique opportunity: you could pinpoint the origin of your table at home and track down if the trees it was made from were illegally obtained. Each wooden...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
After more than 20 years of research, David Nowak, who heads USFS’s Northeastern research unit, thinks he knows. He’s leading an effort to standardize tree valuation. The U.S. Forest Service’s i-Tree platform calculates a city’s "leaf surface area," and gives trees an economic value, from the environmental services they...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will now consider forests in doing environmental impact reviews and has added this to their Environmental Impact Review Manual.
InFOREST is being leveraged as a tool for performing the reviews. The contract with Virginia Tech that is about to be signed will bring air quality...
Friday, February 22, 2013
The Council of State Governments convened this summer and chose two winners of a 2012 CSG Innovations Award from several outstanding finalists in their respective regions. The programs address archiving state records, corrections, economic development, forestry, mental health, military veterans, water, and welfare fraud....
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The importance of forest related industries is a worldwide issue. In a recently published World Development article, researchers show that rural households in a poor and remote mountainous region in southern China get more than 30% of their livelihoods from managing plantation forests.
Overall, 75% of people surveyed in...
Monday, February 4, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years, scientists say.
“This is just beginning,” said Janna Beckerman, a plant pathologist at Indiana’s Purdue University. “I suspect we’ll see trees still dying for the next two or three years.” Some trees...
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