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News archives

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Biologist uses carbon trading to grow forests (Australia)
Biologist Ian Swingland took up the idea of trading commodities to fund afforestation programs after he witnessed the devastation caused by logging in the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo in 1998, two decades after his first visit there. Swingland lived alone for two years in the 1970s on the cora... Continued...

Entrepreneurs log the unwanted urban forest
Donald "Stubby" Warmbold remembers the day he saw a 100-year-old oak tree cut into 12-inch lengths of firewood. A new homeowner in suburban Mercer County, N.J., wanted to expand a driveway, so the tree had to go. "It was a beautiful, beautiful red oak," says Mr. Warmbold, who had recently lost a... Continued...

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Position: Forestry Program Manager, Berea, KY
Forestry Program Manager Needed with the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) Background For 30 years, MACED has worked to improve the quality of life in eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia by creating economic opportunity, strengthening democracy and supporti... Continued...

Region's lumber production expected to top out this year (OR)
The region's lumber mills are on pace to set a 15-year production record this year, but a slowing national housing market will tamp down output next year, says a report Thursday by the Western Wood Products Association. The report said mills in the 13-state region will put out 19.1 billion board... Continued...

Sustainable or salvaged, wood’s origins become a big sell for furniture (WA)
Salvaged or sustainably grown, there’s an increasing demand for furniture and building materials with a past consumers can feel good about — even if it costs a bit more. “It’s by far the best-selling thing I’ve ever had in my store,” says Elie Samuel of the line of mango wood furniture he sells i... Continued...

BEP worries over wood waste use (ME)
Members of Maine's Board of Environmental Protection expressed concern Thursday about how a proposal to allow power plants to burn more wood waste could affect air quality and the state's landfills. Two companies have filed paperwork with the state for authorization to generate steam or electrici... Continued...

Chestnuts have a chance to flourish in U.S.
The American chestnut tree, long celebrated for its cabinet-grade wood, its meaty nuts and its widespread branches that shaded Longfellow's village smithy, was struck by a deadly blight in 1902, and by the end of World War II had disappeared from the country's forests. From Maine to Florida, some... Continued...

Philippine dep't goes high tech in drive vs illegal logging
The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has deployed more units of Trex Vista Global Position System (GPS) to upgrade the capability of the foresters and land management personnel in monitoring log cuttings and squatting in timberlands. The Trex Vista GPS is equipped... Continued...

Forest pathologist discusses Sudden Oak Life (CA)
According to plant pathologist and forest ecologist Lee Klinger, two ancient remedies for Sudden Oak Death and other symptoms of forest decline exist and are readily available. One of the remedies is controlled fire, a practice used by Native Americans for thousands of years. The other involve... Continued...

Monday, December 19, 2005

Union, Sierra Club unite for common good (MN)
The United Steelworkers of America and members of the Sierra Club in Northeastern Minnesota are forging a relationship aimed at improving safety and health and creating jobs. "There's always been a contentious relationship between the Steelworkers and the Sierra Club," said Jerry Fallos, USWA ass... Continued...

Forest industry sees huge value in CDM projects, but process constraints hamstring the potential
The world’s forests and the products that come from them are unique in their ability to remove and store carbon dioxide. But looking at the complete lifecycle of wood products the carbon storage potential of forests can be put to better use. This was discussed by a panel of experts at a side eve... Continued...

Lenders seek ways to save Southeast Asian forests
Nowhere are the contradictory challenges of sustainable development more evident than in Southeast Asia, where export-driven economies and infrastructure improvements have lifted people out of poverty, but up to 90 percent of the region's primary forests have been lost. International donors ackno... Continued...

Time Inc. endorses Minnesota Logger Education Program's new Master Logger certification program
Original publish date 11/29/05 Today, Time Inc. endorsed the Minnesota Logger Education Program’s (MLEP) Master Logger Certification Program. Logger certification promotes sustainable forestry and provides an independent, third-party audit of a logging business’s harvest, safety and business pra... Continued...

Canadian Natives are alarmed by a shortage of sons
Growing up with smokestacks on the horizon, Ada Lockridge never thought much about the pollution that came out of them. She never worried about the oil slicks in Talfourd Creek, the acrid odors that wafted in on the shifting winds or even the air-raid siren behind her house whose shrill wail mea... Continued...

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Legal glitch may be boon for timber counties (OR)
The state's apparent failure to serve notice on all Forest Trust Land Counties of its intent to appeal a judge's July decision that the state Legislature improperly appropriated $10 million in state timber revenues could end up giving the counties a technical knockout win over the state. At leas... Continued...

A farm's friendly forest (WI)
If anything could be made to stand for the sturdiness and the beauty of friendship, a tree would be a fine place to start. In her 83 years, Emily Harris has enjoyed many a warm friendship. And to Harris, a farm girl from way back, few of nature's gifts are as beautiful as trees, the gnarled bur oak... Continued...

Great Lakes' healing mechanisms under attack, scientists say (MI)
As wetlands disappear and shorelines are degraded, the Great Lakes are losing their ability to cope with environmental stress and ward off a catastrophic breakdown, scientists said Thursday. "The immune system of the Great Lakes is weakened and it needs to be restored to prevent the ecological co... Continued...

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Cathedral gets offspring of ancient tree (DC)
The National Cathedral will celebrate the holidays this year with an unusual Christmas tree: a pine seedling whose parent is said to be the oldest known tree on earth. The seedling is a gift from the Champion Tree Project International. It breeds and clones the world's oldest and largest trees i... Continued...

Carbon market still green
The members of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which gathered for a week-long meeting in the Canadian city of Montreal, resolved to support the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows industrialized countries to obtain credits by investing in clean energy projects in the developing Sou... Continued...

Tree of the future (OR)
Original publish date 11/30/05 John Garbini imagines a land, specifically Western Oregon, where hardwood trees mature in eight years and self-sufficiently regrow from their stumps after harvest. In fact, he can almost see it now. Except the 2-month-old trees on the back of his property are sti... Continued...