Lake Tahoe’s famously clear waters continue to warm, and the surrounding forests face dire threats due to drought, disease and insects, according to the annual Tahoe State of the Lake report by researchers at UC Davis. The second deepest lake in the United States after Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe has warmed by half a degree Fahrenheit each [read more]
Young street trees with watering bags are thankfully a frequent site in Washington, DC. During the last tree planting season in our nation's capital (October 2016 through April 2017), the city planted 8,200 trees, increasing urban tree canopy coverage of the District to 38 percent. Overall, the District maintains more than 215,000 trees throughout the city. [read more]
Colorado landowners who want to protect environmentally valuable private forest areas that could be threatened by development or conversion to other non-forest uses have the opportunity to submit proposals to protect their forestlands. The Colorado State Forest Service is now accepting Forest Legacy Program proposals from Colorado landowners. The program authorizes the CSFS or U.S. [read more]
A new report on the health of Colorado’s forests, released this week, shows that the number of dead standing trees in Colorado forests is an estimated 834 million trees—or nearly one in every 14 standing trees. Michael Lester, Colorado State Forester and chair of the Council of Western State Foresters, opens this report with an [read more]
The tree canopy of downtown Charleston, West Virginia will provide a backdrop for the nation's largest gathering of State Foresters, September 18-21, 2017. NASF's 2017 Annual Meeting will be held at the Charleston Marriott Town Center with exceptional opportunities for networking, learning and a technical tour already scheduled. Exhibit booths and sponsorships are available. Reserve your space [read more]
By Rick Thom Philmont Scout Ranch in the Cimarron Mountains of Northern New Mexico is the largest outdoor youth camp in the world. Each year over 22,000 young men and women from throughout the U.S. come to Philmont to experience adventure and learn outdoor skills. Thanks to the Philmont Visiting Forester Program, my friend, Greg [read more]
Edited by Greg Pilchak Information provided by Carla L. Rapp, Project Learning Tree Co-coordinator, Georgia Forestry Association Forty years ago, Project Learning Tree® was founded to help the next generation value the natural world, and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed decisions and take responsible actions to sustain forests and the broader [read more]
By Shawna Crocker, Colorado State Forest Service, Project Learning Tree Coordinator What do the first Earth Day, the Space Race, the Oil Embargo and Old Growth Forests have to do with Project Learning Tree (PLT)? In 1970, the first Earth Day occurred, raising awareness of the many issues and concerns about the state of our [read more]
By Larry Kotchman, North Dakota State Forester on behalf of the Arbor Day Foundation This year, we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA program. Sixteen communities across the nation have been part of the Tree City USA program since the beginning in 1976. Grand Forks and Mandan, North [read more]
The U.S. Forest Service announced that it has identified an additional 26 million trees dead in California since October 2015. These trees are located in six counties across 760,000 acres in the southern Sierra Nevada region of the state, and are in addition to the 40 million trees that died statewide from 2010 to October [read more]
