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News archives

Friday, March 28, 2008

Study finds Better Forest Protection and Fewer Wildfires in FSC-Certified Areas in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
A new Rainforest Alliance study has found that forest concessions managed in compliance with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification standards have seen fewer wildfires and less deforestation compared with protected and other areas within the Maya Biosphere Reserve, an area of tropical forest... Continued...

Louisiana's Mulch Madness
Dean wilson slams forward the throttle on his 18-foot aluminum bateau—a flat-bottom skiff that he welded together himself—and catapults us downriver. It's April and I'm in the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest swamp—1.4 million acres (roughly 10 times the size of Chicago) wedged between the Mi... Continued...

Private forest makes a nice tax shelter (WA)
Clearing a few trails and cleaning up storm damage was about all the Amber-Oliver family ever did to maintain their wooded 20 acres in Stanwood. That's changing after they signed up for a forest stewardship class that could potentially save them thousands and help them make their forested land he... Continued...

Insect Threatens Ky.'s Hemlocks
A voracious insect is threatening Kentucky’s hemlocks. The insect is the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, which feeds on a hemlock’s needles and eventually causes its death. A diverse team made up of land managers, foresters, wildlife biologists, entomologists, public officials, and citizens has formed Sa... Continued...

EU moves to combat illegal logging
The Commission will propose new measures to tackle illegal logging in May amid fears that the current EU legislation is not effective enough, Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas announced last week. "We are going to have some proposals, I hope by the end of May, for the use of sustainable timb... Continued...

Biologists: Bald eagles return year after year (CA)
After outfitting 15 bald eagles with tiny radio-transmitters, biologists have learned that some of the same individual eagles return to the San Bernardino Mountains year after year. The eagles fly south looking for food every year and the San Bernardino Mountain lakes seem to have a lot of what t... Continued...

Friday, March 21, 2008

Government denies protected stats for wolverines in mainland U.S. (MT)
Wolverines in the contiguous United States were denied federal protection Monday at a time when new studies suggest they could become extinct within 45 years if climate change eliminates the snow zone they depend upon. Scientists say they are still puzzling out new revelations and investigating u... Continued...

Tiny fly could aid the might hemlock (OR)
A tiny, exotic pest that is devastating forests of hemlock trees from the Carolinas to Maine has so far confounded scientists' efforts to check the destruction. But forestry researchers at Oregon State University may have found a new weapon in the battle to save the giant evergreens in the eastern ... Continued...

Beetles killing off the red bays
An invading insect from Asia known as the ambrosia beetle is decimating the red bay tree population in Baker County. As the beetle migrates through Florida forests, the state’s other native species of true bay trees — swamp, silk and sassafras — are also in danger. Bay trees are vital to the ... Continued...

Loggers in crisis as downturn drags on (MN)
Minnesota’s logging industry is in dire straits after two years of slack markets and record high fuel prices, and some in the industry are questioning whether conditions could eventually threaten much of northern Minnesota’s wood products industry. One of those sounding that alarm is Scott Dane, ... Continued...

$6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass (NY)
A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Laboratory that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the entire east wing of Riley Robb Ha... Continued...

Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation
Unofficial road-building will be a major driver of deforestation and land-use change in the Amazon rainforest, according to an analysis published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Improved governance, as exemplified by the innovative MAP Initiative in the southwestern Amazon, cou... Continued...

Loggers Invaded Butterfly Haven, Photos Show
Illegal loggers have chopped their way deep into unique forest reserves in a mountain range in central Mexico where millions of monarch butterflies from eastern North America roost for the winter, according to researchers who posted satellite photographs of the area on a NASA Web site Wednesday even... Continued...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Pining for prairie
The sub-zero temperatures in early March could not have come at a better time for restoration work at the Hastings Sand Coulee Scientific and Natural Area. While others lamented the persistence of winter, we rejoiced. The deep cold and snow were essential for removing a pine tree plantation — the fi... Continued...

Conference hears of need for clear rules on carbon (Canada)
In Indonesia, tropical forests are being levelled and replaced with palm oil plantations to produce eco-friendly biofuel. And in North America, research shows a forest that grows for 80 years to biologic maturity locks up less carbon than one harvested every 40 years on an economic rotation where... Continued...

Tropical forest changes 'explained by multiple factors'
Changes in the growth and species composition of tropical forests cannot be fully explained by global environmental changes, say researchers. Recent studies in the Amazon rainforest have suggested that changes such as the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (see Carbon emissions 'may alter for... Continued...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

New York Joins "Elite" Company with Certified Green Forests
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis announced today that state-owned forests have regained their status as “green certified” by internationally recognized standards, meaning they are managed with the highest sustainability requirements, a distinction awa... Continued...

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a mat... Continued...

Pilot Knob Hill Restoration Receives First Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Bio-Energy from Restoration Grant
Great River Greening, a nonprofit regional leader for community-based restoration of natural areas and open space announced today the start of an “innovative restoration for oak savanna” with a 3-acre clearing of overgrown middle aged forest at Pilot Knob Hill in Mendota Heights The project is one o... Continued...

The hills are green, but all's not well (CA)
Recent downpours have turned Orange County foothills charred by October's ferocious Santiago fire a vivid emerald green. From a distance, the explosion of life offers a powerful testament to nature's resilience. Up close, it also provides a worrisome omen for the months ahead. "When I look up the... Continued...