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Friday, October 23, 2009
National Public Radio's Morning Edition aired two stories today on forests and how they relate to international and domestic global warming policies. The first described the view of some scientists writing in the current issue of Science magazine that say existing biofuel laws inadvertently encourage deforestation and...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Three members of the National Association of State Foresters were part of the U.S. delegation to the World Forestry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this week. NASF President Steven Koehn (MD), Fire Committee Chair Vicki Christiansen (AZ), and Council of Western State Foresters Chair Butch Blazer (NM) joined U.S....
Thursday, October 22, 2009
This incredible visual record of the Station Fire in Los Angeles underscores the value and importance of wildfire prevention and safety efforts: http://www.brandonriza.com/Video/HTML/ZeroPercentContained.html. The Station Fire, which started on August 26, 2009, was the largest fire in the recorded history of Angeles...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This bulletin (PDF) from the U.S. Forest Service summarizes federal income tax information useful to woodland owners in preparing their 2009 tax returns. It is current as of October 1, 2009, and supersedes Management Bulletin R8-MB 132. Visit the National Timber Tax website for more information.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Six developing nations and five Western countries, including the United States, have formed a partnership to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by improving forest management, the World Bank said. The Forest Investment Program, which holds its first meeting Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C., will invest some $350 million in...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
"The only way to measure forests efficiently is from space," says Jose Achache, director of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an international project that will monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming. Governments, space agencies such as NASA and Google Inc are joining in the new partnership to measure...
Friday, October 16, 2009
The Senate unanimously confirmed last week Harris Sherman as the Department of Agriculture's under secretary for natural resources and environment. Sherman, who has been the executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, will oversee the U.S. Forest Service.
Friday, October 16, 2009
USA Today reports that power plants across the country are turning to wood to make electricity. The move is spurred by state mandates to encourage renewable power and by bills moving through Congress that require more renewable electricity nationwide.
Friday, October 16, 2009
More than a decade ago in the northeast corner of Bolivia, a group of polluters and environmentalists joined forces in the first large-scale experiment to curb climate change with a strategy that promised to suit their competing interests: compensating for greenhouse gas emissions by preserving forests. The outcome of that...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has announced completion of 45 "best-in-class" case studies of community-scale wood-to-energy systems selected from projects across Canada, Europe and the U.S. Led by the Biomass Energy Resources Center (BERC) of Vermont, the case studies illustrate the that local biomass...
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