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News archives

Monday, October 29, 2007

Combatting Climate Change - Making a real difference with forests: New rules would bolster California's carbon market (CA)
The California Air Resources Board is set to further California's position as a climate leader on Oct. 25, when the board will vote on recommendations to endorse the California Climate Action Registry's forest protocols. The board's endorsement of these rules would create a foundation for the state ... Continued...

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Forest Service cheif: More blazes like California's on the way (OR)
U.S. Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell says the nation can expect more wildfires like the ones raging through Southern California as global climate change heats up the world’s forests. “Fires are burning hotter and bigger, becoming more damaging and dangerous to people and to property,” Kimbell s... Continued...

Ninth Circuit Court Allows Review in Legal Case of Recycled Sewage on Sacred Mountain (AZ)
The 9th Circuit Court has granted the U.S. Forest Service and an Arizona ski resort the opportunity for review of the court's decision on March 12th, 2007 that had provided protection for a mountain held holy by more than 13 Native American Nations. The slopes of the San Francisco Peaks, located in ... Continued...

Wildfires get personal for lawmakers (DC)
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) woke up at 2:30 on Tuesday morning to see the hillside behind his house glowing with fire and flames shooting as high as 50 feet in the air. He then watched as the fire ran to the top of the ridge of the hill and raced back down the other side. McKeon, who returned to... Continued...

Judge tells Pacific Lumber parties to pick a mediator (TX)
The federal Bankruptcy Court judge presiding over the Pacific Lumber Co.'s Chapter 11 process told the bitterly divided parties Tuesday to pick a mediator by Friday and present a unified plan within 30 days. That order, issued by Judge Richard Schmidt in Corpus Christi, Texas, left unsettled the... Continued...

Bush Administration Tries to Reverse Old-Growth Forest Protection Plan (US)
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is trying to dismantle a 1994 landmark management plan that balances logging, endangered species and old-growth forest protections. BLM wants to revise the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) to allow logging on nearly one million acres of old-growth forest area inc... Continued...

Rural schools money pays for biomass, fire safety (CA)
The Placer County board of supervisors on Tuesday authorized spending a portion of the federal funding it receives for rural school on wildfire prevention and biomass programs. At its monthly meeting Tuesday in Kings Beach, the board set aside 20 percent of the $1.2 million the county receives fr... Continued...

Septic plan prompts worries (WA)
The first commercial spraying of septic tank waste on forestland in Pierce County could begin before the end of this year, leaving behind roughly 6 million gallons a year of the partially treated domestic waste. Neighbors who live near the site south of Carbonado aren’t happy. They say the Carbon ... Continued...

Costs of Sustainable Forest Management to Rise (Kuala Lampur)
Costs of sustainable forest management (SFM) will continue to rise during the coming years, according to a forestry official. This is because of new issues incorporated into the concept of sustainability and further improvements required in forest practices and protection, said Sabah Forestry Dep... Continued...

Amazon plant diversity still a mystery (South America)
The Amazon is one of the few places on the earth that still evokes an accurate sense of mystery. While the Taiga, Antarctica, and Sahara may compare to the Amazon in wilderness size, none hold the same mystique of unknown species. It is believed that one third of the world?s species inhabits this tr... Continued...

Wilderness bill debate boils down to East versus West (US)
A longstanding rift between East Coast and Western lawmakers erupted again Thursday as a congressional subcommittee heard testimony on a sweeping bill that would designate as wilderness 23 million acres in five Western states. Supporters of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act noted that... Continued...

State park would boost county revenues (MN)
St. Louis County would enjoy a revenue windfall from the proposed Lake Vermilion state park, but Breitung Township tapayers would have to make up for a drop in revenue if the land, currently owned by US Steel, is sold to the state. That’s according to Deputy County Assessor Dave Sipola, who provid... Continued...

Ginseng harvest illegal on state or federal lands (WI)
State officials are reminding people interested in harvesting wild ginseng in Wisconsin that ginseng harvest is highly regulated and may only be done under certain conditions. To harvest wild ginseng, people must have a valid Wisconsin wild ginseng harvester’s license. Ginseng may only be harvest... Continued...

DNR targets island birds (WI)
Five islands on Wisconsin's Lake Michigan and Green Bay shorelines are now home to more than 12,000 nesting pairs of fish-feasting double-crested cormorants, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources would like to slash that number in half. The move is in response to grumbling from fisher... Continued...

DNR programs achieve certification (IN)
Indiana's state forests and classified forests have been certified by two outside organizations as being managed in a sustainable manner. The Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry's state forest program recently completed the requirements for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SF... Continued...

FCS-US Regional Standards Review Process (US)
FSC-US is now entering Phase II of the Regional Standards Revisions Process of actual revisions to the standards, building off the Phase I Standards Review and stakeholder consultation. A Standards Working Group (the ‘crafting branch’) has been appointed by the FSC-US Standards Committee of the B... Continued...

Mixed Forests Are Healthier (Canada)
Forests planted with a diverse species of trees will be better able to withstand pest infestation than those that are sown plantation-style with just one species, a newly released study said. A diversity of trees will support a greater range of insects than a single species, ensuring that there a... Continued...

Combating Climate Change: Making a real difference with forests (CA)
California's historic AB32 legislation put the state in a leadership role in the effort to combat climate change. Now, in many ways, the hard work begins. California is reviewing its initial greenhouse gas-measuring protocols, which were established by the California Climate Action Registry an... Continued...

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Forest Service seeks comments on rules (US)
The Forest Service is providing public notice and opportunity for comments on proposed rules for National Forest System land management planning and the Forest Service's NEPA procedures. Both proposals have 60-day comment periods that end in mid-October. "The proposed rules create better ways for... Continued...

Seeing green in a whole new way: Felling trees gives way to selling views as East Texas turns from industry to ecotourism (TX)
The massive paper mill here that once made East Texas pine trees a major source of newsprint sits mothballed. Down the street, the heyday of the paper industry — long a stalwart of the East Texas economy — is remembered in a museum dedicated to Texas forestry. But as the paper and lumber industri... Continued...