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News archives

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dovetail Partners Releases Green Building Comparison Report
Dovetail Partners has released a new report that evaluates the Minnesota GreenStar Program and the National Green Building Standard developed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). “The National Green Building Standard and MN GreenStar both have potential for successful projects in... Continued...

World's largest mangrove forest to bear brunt of cyclone Aila
Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh's southwestern part, suffered another blow by cyclone Aila on Monday before it could fully recover from the hit of cyclone Sidr in November 2007. Chief conservator of southwestern Bangladesh's Khulna region under the country's Forest ... Continued...

Fast-spreading oak wilt proves costly (Tex.)
Just before 9 a.m. on a recent hot Hill Country day, Robert Edmonson, a biologist with the Texas Forest Service, turned his white F-150 pickup onto the dirt road leading to the new home of Ken Judice. Judice, who lives just northwest of New Braunfels, had called Edmonson to ask his advice: The c... Continued...

Climate Change Forces Michigan Mammals Northward
Some of Michigan's forest mammals are expanding their ranges to the north, likely in response to climate change, a new study shows. The finding that historically southern species now are replacing the declining northern species by scientists at the University of Michigan, Michigan State Universi... Continued...

Global warming's impacts on state forests: Burn baby burn! (Wash.)
State Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark looks out at Washington's unhealthy forests from a pilot's seat, flying his plane from Olympia to his family's ranch in the remote reaches of Okanogan County. "It is just mind-numbing the damage you see on west facing and south facing slopes . . . an overbu... Continued...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Press Release: Iowa Forest Protects Critical Bird Habitat
A 77-acre forest in northeast Iowa is the first in the state to be certified under international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) management standards for its protection of native vegetation and ecologically important wildlife, including rare bird species. The project will be highlighted at a landow... Continued...

Giving money for nothing? (Minn.)
In exchange for $44 million, most of it taxpayer money from the Legacy constitutional amendment, the UPM Blandin paper company of northern Minnesota is agreeing to do -- nothing. The marquee project of the fund created when state voters approved a sales tax increase to support the environment, re... Continued...

Press Release: Wisconsin Wetlands Association Announces 100 Wetland Gems
Today, with a backdrop of Cherokee Marsh and the Yahara River and amidst calls of Sandhill cranes, Wisconsin Wetlands Association announced its statewide list of 100 Wetland Gems. "Wisconsin is lucky to be home to thousands of acres of wetlands, and we hope these Wetland Gems will help the peopl... Continued...

Press Release: Woodland Advocate Program to expand to 10 Wisconsin Townships in 2009
Private woodland owners who want to attract more wildlife to their woods and have healthier trees will be able to learn how it’s done from their neighbors in ten Wisconsin towns this year. Woodland Advocates are woodland owners who enjoy helping other landowners learn how to keep their forest he... Continued...

The destructive emerald ash borer: It's here (Minn.)
Feared and expected, the emerald ash borer has been found in Minnesota, posing a critical threat to the state's 900 million ash trees, including roughly one-third of all trees in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The infestation was discovered in a tree on Long Avenue in St. Paul's Hampden Park neighborh... Continued...

Thinning projects help loggers find work (Mont.)
As lumber mills grind to a halt, their saws dulled against the blunt edge of a national housing slump, loggers and log haulers are likewise being forced out of their woods work. No new home construction means no new need for lumber, and the trickle-down has snapped links in the entire supply chai... Continued...

Pessimism the new norm for forest industry: PricewaterhouseCoopers (B.C.)
Low prices, low profits, and pessimistic forecasts are the "new version of normal" in the forest products industry, a PricewaterhouseCoopers expert said Thursday. And Canadian producers are among the worst performers, Craig Campbell, an executive in the firm's global forest, paper and packing pra... Continued...

Peru gets $120m to protect 212,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest
The Japanese government will loan Peru $120 million to protect 55 million hectares (212,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest over the next ten years, reports El Comercio. The loan, to be distributed in three phases starting year next, has an interest rate of 0.10 percent payable over 40 years.... Continued...

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Big questions linger around major source of carbon emissions (World)
As environmentalists and politicians rally around the inclusion of avoided deforestation projects in an international climate change agreement, some big questions about forest and land ownership loom unanswered. A new report (pdf) released yesterday by the London-based International Institute for... Continued...

What's the Carbon Footprint of Your Toilet Paper? (U.K.)
Tesco is charging ahead with its plans to slap a carbon label on all of its private label products to denote the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it takes to produce each item. The U.K.-based retailer said on Friday it would include the labels on its Tesco-branded toilet paper and kitchen rolls... Continued...

Many conifers had a rough winter (Minn.)
Many homeowners are concerned this spring because the needles of many conifers have turned purple, red or rust-colored. The immediate assumption is that the trees are dead or dying. Although the needles look terrible, the buds, twigs and trees are probably not dead. In an article in the Minnesota... Continued...

Final draft of Group Certification standard out for public consultation
The standard prescribes the requirements that group entities must meet when seeking FSC group forest management certification. The requirements are based on the "FSC-POL-20-001 FSC Policy Group Certification – FSC guidelines for certification bodies" approved in 1998. Access to FSC certificatio... Continued...

Brazil's other big forest in dire straits
THE ongoing degradation of the Amazon rainforest has obscured the plight of its smaller sibling: the Atlantic forest in Brazil, which is a biodiversity hotspot. Once covering about 1.5 million square kilometres, the rainforest has been reduced to about one-tenth of its original area in the past 500 ... Continued...

New beetle might pose deadly threat to O.C. oaks (Calif.)
A little known wood-boring beetle is killing oak trees in eastern San Diego County and eventually could pose the same threat in Orange County, says the U.S. Forest Service. The insect, which was identified only five years ago and is still only going by the proposed name goldspotted oak borer, has... Continued...

"Wood chip" energy could be part of city heating (Minn.)
The Ely City Council got a look at an alternative community energy source that has been environmentally friendly in European cities for several years. Mechanical engineers Dave Olson and Chuck Hartley presented an overview of Organic Rankine Cycle power that uses wood waste biomass like chips, sa... Continued...