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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...
Friday, May 10, 2013
A new study released by the Forest Service addresses the loss of eastern hemlock from forests in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. The hemlock woolly adelgid, an exotic invasive insect, has caused widespread hemlock mortality," says Steven Brantley, a post-doctoral researcher and lead author of the...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
American Forests is taking fast and concerted action to address the devastation threatening high-elevation forests across the West. They are collaborating with state and federal agencies, local communities and other nonprofits to create a replicable strategy to protect and restore these forest ecosystems, while educating...
Friday, May 3, 2013
Severe weather swings caused by climate change are occurring more frequently and cause problems with drought, blow downs, insect infestations and invasive species in Minnesota. Minnesota State Forester Forrest Boe, said the state presents challenges and opportunities for thermal biomass utilization.
Boe said one of the...
Friday, May 3, 2013
Earlier this week Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law first-of-its-kind legislation that amends Maryland’s forest conservation policy to maintain the State’s current 40 percent tree canopy ─ a no-net-loss. The bill establishes new and expanded reforestation incentives and tools to help landowners and local...
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...
Friday, April 19, 2013
Despite a great deal of work in recent years, there is still a lack of understanding of the link between forests and society, the economy and the wider world, the Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat said, as countries meet in Istanbul to chart a way forward on a number of forestry-related issues....
Friday, April 19, 2013
When drought hits, trees can suffer—a process that makes sounds. Now, scientists may have found the key to understanding these cries for help.
A team of scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees. Because trees also make noises that aren't related to drought impacts,...
Friday, April 19, 2013
A unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories, the Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (or BISON) is the only system of its kind.
The resource offers more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the...
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...
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