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Thursday, September 10, 2009
A national conference is being planned by the Missouri Department of Agriculture and the Missouri Department of Conservation for November 3-4, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri to begin a national dialogue on thousand cankers disease and help protect black walnuts, a valuable economic and ecological resource to many states. For...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The James River Power Station in Springfield, MO, has been working with torrefied wood as a cleaner energy alternative to burning coal. Torrefaction, also known as biochar, is a process of roasting wood chips in a large furnace, but not to the point of becoming charcoal. "We have a lot of hardwoods. We have a lot of trees...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Federal forest officials are asking San Diego County residents to avoid moving oak wood as part of their efforts to slow the spread of the gold-spotted oak borer. The tree-killing bug is a recently detected pest that invades California black oaks, coast live oaks and canyon live oaks in Southern California. It's believed...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Though this year's fire season in California hasn't yet reached the level of destruction of the past two years, that could change soon. A prolonged drought, which is drying up vegetation and fueling a seemingly endless fire that has burned more than 250 square miles of Los Angeles County, could be the start of a fall siege...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), an outspoken critic of cap-and-trade legislation, is the new head of the Agriculture Committee, one of the panels with jurisdiction over the climate and energy bill working its way through Congress. Lincoln, the first woman to chair the committee, brings a markedly different voice on climate...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Roundtable on Sustainable Forests (RSF) is pleased to invite you to register for the National RSF Meeting: Stakeholder Action Strategy for the future, in the Washington, DC area on October 14 and 15, 2009. The primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss, shape, and make plans for implementing a stakeholder Sustainable...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell has announced the appointment of Leslie Weldon as Regional Forester of the Northern Region of the Forest Service. When she begins her new position later this fall, Weldon will oversee 15 national forests and 4 national grasslands within the states of Montana, Idaho and North Dakota...
Friday, September 4, 2009
InciWeb (http://www.inciweb.org/), an interagency all-risk incident information management system, was picked as website of the week by Government Video for its data, maps, news and photographs. The site's resources on fire incidents are updated often, easy to use, and offer many links to local agencies.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Several states are sending crews to assist the raging wildfires in California and Texas:
State Forester Vicki Christiansen is interviewed on the AZ firefighters headed west to help out (video)
Idaho has sent a hot shot crew to California and others to Utah
Forty Kentucky forest rangers just returned from firefighting in...
Thursday, September 3, 2009
An editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune points to NASF's advocacy on federal wildfire suppression funding reform as a "blueprint" for a solution.
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