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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Blog: Tree Huggers: How to Come to Grips With Forest Offsets?
Our colleague Jeff Ball raises a Taoist question about efforts to tackle climate change: When is inaction really action? In other words, does not cutting down a tree amount to curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, and how much should that inaction be worth? It’s not an angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin qu... Continued...

A New Fight Over Pollution Curbs Takes Root
How much pollution can a tree absorb? The question is at the center of a high-stakes fight over how much it will cost to curb climate change -- and who will foot the bill. Trees are nature's antidote to smokestacks and tailpipes. Factories and cars cough out carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produ... Continued...

Meet the beetles (Vt.)
Visitors from Canada and Massachusetts ordinarily boost the state's economy. But two species of insects – the emerald ash borer and Asian long-horned beetle – have state agriculture officials worried. That's because the two potential invaders could damage trees and the state's timber industry. Th... Continued...

In Decimated Timber Industry, Tribes Find Niche Market
The Northwest timber industry has been decimated by the nationwide housing slump. But one mill is still churning out planks. It's on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in north-central Oregon. The tribes found an unlikely niche market -- sending their timber to Japan. The plant provides muc... Continued...

Dovetail Partners Provides Information about Emerald Ash Borer
Information available from Dovetail Partners, a Minneapolis-based non-profit organization, addresses common questions about the threat posed by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The insect is an invasive pest that threatens to devastate native ash tree populations. “The spread of EAB has been linked... Continued...

On wood, burning questions
Along the banks of the Piscataqua River, an ancient energy source is being transformed into retro chic renewable power. Every minute, a conveyor belt dumps about a ton of matchbook-sized wood chips into a seven-story-tall boiler that generates enough electricity to power 50,000 homes and, in the ... Continued...

Area maple trees hit hard by fungus (Iowa)
A rash of a disease known as anthracnose has made its way throughout Marshalltown, causing some concern among local residents. The disease mainly affects maple trees and is caused by a fungus. Eventually, it could cause the leaves to die and fall off the tree. Some maples will even respond with a... Continued...

Study: Wildfires will increase with climate change (Ore.)
A warming climate will lead to more wildfires in coming decades, with the most dramatic increase in the Northwest, a new study predicts. The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, is not the first to look at how a shifting climate will influence fire patterns, but it goes a ste... Continued...

Monday, July 27, 2009

Timber body under fire over climate aid claims (Australia)
A TIMBER industry body is being investigated over claims it misled the public by asserting that buying wood products helps the fight against climate change. The consumer watchdog has asked Forest & Wood Products Australia to respond to allegations it made two deceptive claims: that the carbon dio... Continued...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

CFC Centennial Celebration (Minn.)
From July 20 to July 25, 2009, the Cloquet Forestry Center will be celebrating 100 years of education, research, and outreach. Established in 1909, the Center is the longest continuously operating forestry field station of its kind in the United States. Collegiate instruction began with the firs... Continued...

FSC releases literature review on the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification
FSC has published a compilation of findings on the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification in and beyond the forest, in a literary review of independent research. The report uncovers strong evidence that FSC can positively impact workers and communities, shift governance processes globally and cha... Continued...

Seattle Steam Makes the Switch to Biomass
Seattle Steam, a company that's been using old school technology to heat downtown buildings for more than 115 years, is turning to an even older fuel source-wood-in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions. In Fall 2009, the company plans to fire up a new boiler which will allow it to derive more ... Continued...

Malaysia's rainforests being insidiously replaced with plantations of clones
Rainforests once managed for selective logging in Malaysia are now being are clear-felled and replaced with latex-timber clones—rubber trees that yield latex and can be harvested for timber—reports the Malaysian Star. Up to 80 percent of Malaysia's remaining forest cover could be at risk. Journa... Continued...

Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation 3,000 Years Ago
As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of t... Continued...

Pesticide proposal gains ground (Ore.)
Organic farmer and pastor Day Owen has been asking state and local government agencies to take his complaints about aerial pesticide spraying seriously for several years, and it appears he might have finally got-ten some traction with the Lane County Board of Commissioners. At a board meeting Tue... Continued...

Mapping America's giant trees
The project is designed to follow up research, in the Yosemite National Park, which suggests that giant trees are perishing as a result of climate change. An analysis of data collected over 60 years has led scientists from the University of Washington and the Yosemite Field Station of the US Geo... Continued...

Should humans dictate nature in the name of conservation? (Canada and U.S.)
On naked patches of land in Western Canada and the United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate. Take the Western larch with its thick grooved bark ... Continued...

Friday, July 17, 2009

Illegal Amazon timber passed off as eco-certified in massive wood laundering scheme
A Brazilian federal prosecutor is leading an investigation into charges that illegal timber from the state of Pará is being laundered as "eco-certified" wood and exported to markets in the United States, Europe, and Asia, reports Sunday's edition of O Globo. Prosecutor Bruno Valente Soares has f... Continued...

British company barcodes trees to protect forests
Deep in the world's tropical rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into hardwood trees to help in the fight against illegal logging, corruption and global warming. The plastic tags, like those on supermarket groceries, have been nailed to a million trees across Africa, southeas... Continued...

Study says embers help guide forest fires
Why does one home in a subdivision burn during a wildland fire while others surrounding it remain unscathed? That's part of what researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology documented during the first of a three-part study. The first portion of the study released last month ... Continued...