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• Adirondack Tree Identification 102

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 526
  Now that we’ve mastered the trees with opposite branching, it’s time to turn our attention to those whose branches alternate from left to right (more or less). There are many species of trees that fit this category, and many of them exist here in the Adirondacks. To write even a quick ID guide for all of them ...
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• Clear-cuts of our soul

  
  Opening the door, walking outside — Authority: 424
  Clear cut It’s a delicate subject around here.  Toss a coin up in the air and decide.  Should the land ever be clear-cut?  Should the trees be sliced off like a razor cutting whiskers on a stubbly chin?  Foresters often say that in certain areas a clear-cut is advisable.  Many tracts are not good hardwood ...
  19 hours ago

• DNR harvests Christmas tree for Governor’s residence

  
  MN Department of Natural Resources -- News Releases — Authority: 131
  Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff, with help from the Minnesota Conservation Corps, harvested a 44-foot balsam fir from the Nemadji State Forest today that will grace the Governor’s official residence on St. Paul’s Summit Avenue for the holiday season.
  21 hours ago

• Gibson Guitar raid penalizes American company for foreign forestry practices

  
  The US Report — Authority: 128
  Commentary by Kay B. Day The SG Standard, said Gibson, is the best-selling Gibson of all time.[Photo from Gibson website.] The Gibson brand needs no introduction to anyone who’s ever played a guitar, and the factory in Nashville is a valuable employer providing jobs to approximately 2,800 Americans. But ...
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• Dr. Elaine Oneil On Forest Management to Reduce Risks of Climate Change

  
  SOS Forests — Authority: 127
  On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, held a hearing regarding managing Federal forests in response to climate change, including for natural resource adaptation and carbon sequestration [ here ]. Witnesses ...
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• Three day conference on Forestry Solutions kick started on Nov 19 in Shimla

  
  Ub News — Authority: 542
  A three-day international meet on climate change and its impact on forests began in Shimla on 19th November. The participants in the three-day conference on ‘Forestry Solutions’ from Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand besides host Himachal Pradesh in addition to experts from the US discussed in ...
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• Can’t See the Forest for the Bush

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 532
  Erika Raes husband holds a one-man naked protest march.
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• Voices Of The Underground2 Pt.14

  
  http://www.one21music.com — Authority: 126
  Voices Of The Underground is a series that seeks to explore one question from many different angles. Every week, we will ask one question of many of your favorite music artists. We will post their responses below, and what you will find is that there is never truly one answer to every question, but instead a whole ...
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• New funds to help cleantech pipeline flow

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 573
  Six new funds look for investments, as UK tidal energy company wraps up a nearly $45 million round. Details of this, plus we spot 29 deals in the past seven days.
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• Indonesian government suspends license of logging company in controversial forest area

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The Indonesian government today temporarily suspended the license of Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) for developing an area of forest and peatland in Sumatra pending a review of the companys permits, reports Greenpeace.
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• New Value in FSC Certified Forests

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Dylan Tanner Until plantation forestry became prominent several decades ago, the plentiful supply of forests around the world meant that the traditional model of producing timber was to clear cut old and secondary growth forest and utilize the land for tree plantations on a 15-30 year cycle. In tropical ...
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• Ancient High-Altitude Trees Grow Faster as Temperatures Rise (Science Daily)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Science DailyAncient High-Altitude Trees Grow Faster as Temperatures RiseScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2009) — Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world’s oldest trees, according to new research.Pines close to treeline have wider annual ...
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• Campaign against Sustainable Forestry Initiative escalates

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  ForestEthics versus SFI. The green industry is overwhelmed by trustmarks and certification organizatons. As a result, consumers don’t know whom to believe anymore. As it turns out SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) is funded and managed primarily by large logging companies, whereas ForestEthics is an ...
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• UK imports wood to fuel power plants

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 438
  The UK is set to plunder forests to fuel its power stations. According to the Forestry Commission, the growing number of planned biomass-powered plants in the UK will surge timber imports by 150 per cent, from 20 million tonnes this year to 50 million by 2015. A new biomass plant to be built by 2012 at Port Talbot ...
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• 70 percent of Cuba’s farmland under threat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Havana, Nov 19 (EFE) Seventy percent of Cuba’s land under cultivation is being affected by erosion, salinity and acidity, agriculture ministry officials said.The director of the Soil Institute, Dagoberto Rodriguez, said Wednesday at a press conference in Havana that only half of Cuba’s 6.6 million hectares (16.3 ...
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• Mount Gambier’s secret forest

  
  The Border Watch — Authority: 147
  A forestry consultant hopes a picturesque site beside Mount Gambier Airport that sowed the seeds of bluegum plantation growth across the South East will become a unique tourism, education and research site for the broader region. Robert Hanssen (pictured)has been involved in developing the former CSIRO site, which ...
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• Adirondack Tree Indentification 101

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 526
  I was a Stumpy – a student at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry. While an undergrad, I was enrolled in the Dual Program: Resource Management (forestry) and Environmental and Forest Biology. A required course for forestry majors, as you might well imagine, was dendrology, or the study of trees, and ...
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• Dell Ships Netbooks in Bamboo Packaging

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  Competition to be and look green in the personal computing industry is reaching a fever pitch . Debates rage over which companies are raising the bar and which are baiting and switching. Packaging, to be sure, is a big piece of the puzzle. This week, Dell announced that it will ship two of its hot netbooks in ...
  3 days ago

• Cutting trees is not bad?

  
  Agriculture.ph Blog — Authority: 121
  Cutting trees is not bad? Cutting trees is not really a bad thing. That’s what our friend Dave Deppner, the founder of Trees for the Future, says. Trees, he said, are an important resource for everyone on earth. What is bad is when people cut trees but do not replant them. Trees are cut for many reasons. Valuable ...
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• Ones for the Road

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 520
  The Superfreaks aren’t the only peddlers of c0unterintuitive best-sellers who eschew depth and rigor Depressing but fascinating coverage of the sausage-making surrounding forest management under the upcoming international climate treaty. Little Green Footballs founder on escaping the blogospheric echo chamber ...
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