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News archives

Friday, February 29, 2008

Carbon trading could protect forests, reduce rural poverty
Carbon trading from avoided deforestation (REDD) credits could yield billions of dollars for tropical countries, according to analysis by mongabay.com, a leading tropical forest web site. Using conservative estimates for carbon storage in tropical forests for 63 countries, mongabay.com estimates... Continued...

Small Town, Big Clearcut (OR)
The once forested hillside looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland: a cheerful green and white clapboard schoolhouse, surrounded by stumps of trees and piles of charred, dead slash. It may not be a one-room schoolhouse, but the Triangle Lake School in rural Blachly is as close as it c... Continued...

Chemical pollutants found in U.S. parks including Mt. Rainier, Olympics (WA)
Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks are among wilderness areas in the Western U.S. and Alaska where scientists have found evidence of airborne contamination, including mercury, agricultural pesticides and banned substances, such as DDT. A sweeping, six-year federal study released Tuesday fo... Continued...

Windstorm's wrath forces emergency harvest (WA)
There is never a good time for 125-mile-an-hour winds to hopscotch across your tree farm and blow down millions of dollars' worth of timber that's taken decades to grow. December was certainly one of the worst times ? right in the middle of a home-building bust that has idled many sawmills and se... Continued...

Sons of Sitka (OR)
Seven 700-year-old trees sit under a 13-watt fluorescent lamp on Rick Mock's dinner table in this small town west of Astoria. All are living pieces of what is thought to be one of the oldest living things in Oregon: the giant Sitka spruce along U.S. 26 near Seaside known as the Seaside Spruce or... Continued...

FSC Launches Market Info Pack
Today FSC launched a market information pack that provides many indicative and revealing figures and statistics on FSC growth, market share, label recognition and other strong indicators of the growth in supply and demand for FSC products. Updated figures indicate that the global market for FSC ... Continued...

Landowners get biodiversity lesson online (NY)
A group of private forest owners and managers recently came together to learn more about how they can enhance the biodiversity on their land. But they didn’t meet in person. Instead, they participated in an online seminar sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension, as part of Cornell’s ForestConn... Continued...

Family forest succession program going national (OR)
The developers of a successful Oregon State University program to help family forest landowners and farmers sort through estate planning are now marketing the concept across the United States. The goal, experts say, is to help address a growing national crisis -- aging landowners who become over... Continued...

Brazilian Ethanol Goes it Alone
The expansion of the ethanol market could contribute to fighting climate change if the trade barriers in the developed economies are removed, said World Bank president Robert Zoellick, in a nod to Brazil's desire to boost its alternative fuels. he statement from Zoellick, who served as the U.S. t... Continued...

Friday, February 22, 2008

Pine beetles stir logging debate (WY)
The U.S. Forest Service's plan for targeted logging in the Medicine Bow National Forest is a knee-jerk reaction which will do nothing to stop the spread of pine beetles, a Laramie-based conservation group says. But a timber industry spokesman said logging should be part of a long-term strategy to... Continued...

Wood gets look as answer to energy independence (CO)
Wes Rutt looks around Larimer County and sees a long-term solution to the country's energy woes growing out of the ground. But he's not looking at corn or switchgrass or even sugar beets, which are all being investigated as alternative fuel sources. What Rutt sees are trees. "We've got to ... Continued...

Who Stole My Trees? Kentucky Fights Back
Mitchum Whitaker's heart sank when he saw what loggers had done to his property — bulldozer tracks, freshly sawn stumps and broken tree tops cluttering the ground. On the timber market, the 12 trees taken from his Letcher County property were worth an estimated $5,000. To Whitaker, they were pric... Continued...

With Oil Prices Rising, Wood Makes a Comeback (VT)
As a child, Brian Cook remembers hurling wood into the big orange boiler his father bought during the oil crisis of the late 1970s, helping feed the fire that provided heat and hot water to his family. Thirty years later, Mr. Cook dragged the boiler out of his childhood home and hooked it up in ... Continued...

People key to halting invasive species (WI)
Aquatic invasive species are impacting our lives. In case you hadn't noticed, Phil Moy, fisheries and non-indigenous species specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, has a way of making the point. As first presenter Saturday in Milwaukee at "Knocking at the Gates: An Aquatic Invasive... Continued...

Wolves to lose protected status (MT)
Gray wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list after a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, federal officials said Thursday. An estimated 1,500 wolves now roam Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. That represents a dramatic turnaround f... Continued...

Photocatalysis Fights Water Contamination (Venezuela)
Venezuela hopes to have ready this year the prototype of a lake decontamination system that uses solar rays to destroy the toxic substances in the water -- heterogeneous photocatalysis. "Water contaminants degrade with the increase in the speed of the chemical reaction between the compounds invol... Continued...

Global carbon market set to explode in next decade (EU)
Analysts foresee a boom in carbon emissions trading by 2020 as the EU prepares to include new sectors in its Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) and the United States' accession to a similar system appears increasingly inevitable. A booming market The value of the global carbon market shot up by... Continued...

Story of sustainability changes as society changes
Make no mistake -- the environment is a hot topic in the media today. The Wall Street Journal earlier this month unveiled its new environmental blog Environment Capital. Last month, Columbia Journal Review launched The Observatory, focused on critiquing the press coverage of science and the envi... Continued...

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Tankful of trees (MN)
Minnesota’s paper mills and wood-burning plants could produce more ethanol than the state’s corn farmers thanks to new technology that can turn trees into liquid fuel. Scientists say the paper mill of the future will produce not just paper but also liquid fuel, synthetic gas, electricity, steam, ... Continued...

Green buildings can boost industry (WA)
Green buildings reduce energy bills, help mitigate climate change and provide people with nontoxic environments in which to work and live. What is less understood, however, is the capacity for the green-building movement to stimulate the growth of a new market within Washington's timber industry. ... Continued...