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Fundamental Reform Needed at UN Global Warming Group
The investigation will likely factor into the next U.N. climate conference.
CO: USFS, Denver Water Tackling Forest Restoration
The finances are to thin dead forests, create firebreaks and address erosion issues, among other efforts.
LA: Students Prepare for Forest-Products Industry Jobs
The Wood Works course includes training in safety, applied math, forestry, employability skills, wood industry terminology.
MT: Helena National Forest to Fell Dead Trees
The project is in response to the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
MI: API Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches
The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water.
NW Forests Offer Carbon Dilemma
A new study using laser pulses shot from satellites found the world's tallest forests along the Pacific Northwest coast.
India: Punjab Paper-Maker Gets FSC Certificate
"[T]his...will enable us to further foray into the US paper market," Rajeev Gupta, business head Trident Paper, said.
WY: Biofuel Plant to Work with Sugar Cane Waste
The plant has been using pine tree waste to produce ethanol
CA: Views Differ, Lake Tahoe Forest Fuel Reduction
Land managers, some residents, contend the tree thinning is necessary to reduce susceptibility to catastrophic wildfire
WA: Companies, Lawmakers Fret About New Boiler Rules
New rules endanger nearly 3,000 jobs, could choke a push to use renewable logging scraps to heat public buildings.
Video: Why Political Sage Sees GOP Romp in November
NZ: Carbon Profit Grows on Trees as Kiwi Farmers Ditch Sheep
Flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool, mutton.
IN: Study Urges Less Urban Sprawl, More Forest
Researchers at Purdue University used computer modeling to study runoff rates of Michigan's Muskegon River watershed.
CA: Judge Turns Away 21-Yr Enviros Stopping Housing Development
The subdivision has less than half the homes originally slated, largely due to the controversy surrounding butterfly habitat.
MT: Groups Form Coalition on Wolf Issue
A united front with the state of Montana to regain tools to control growing gray wolf populations.
NM: Enviros Sue Feds On Lynx Protection Decision
Russia: Putin Ousts Forest Agency Chief Over Blazes
More than 50 people killed, more than 2,000 homes destroyed.
ND: USFS Taking Comments on Road Closure Plan
The main proposal would close 703 miles Forest Service roads, 600 miles of unauthorized roads.
NE: USFS Travel Mgmt Map a Disappointment to Off-Roaders
The last steps in changing the USFS policy on motorized travel from ‘Open unless closed’ to a ‘Closed unless open’ regime.
WI: Workers Examine Alleged Pot Mess in Nat'l Forest
Investigators aren't saying it officially, but the operation matches the style of Mexican drug cartels.
CA: Officials Raid Pot Gardens, Tehama County
Law enforcement officials have been busy this week raiding marijuana gardens on U.S. Forest Service lands.
Coalition of 150 Lobbies Congress to OK Heavier Trucks
Driving trend: rising fuel costs, reducing carbon footprints, capacity constraints as freight movers scaled down.
ID: Wolf Hunts, Endangered Species, States Rights
The villain here is not Molloy. It's Wyoming.
Mexico Adds Tariffs in Trucking Dispute
Escalating a trade dispute over a U.S. ban on Mexican truckers operating north of the border.
Illegal Immigrants: 1 in 12 U.S. Births
China Keeps Growing as Recovered Paper Consumer
More than two-thirds of United States exported scrap paper is going to China, RISI reports.
Video: The Environmental Paper Network
"On the front lines of challenging one of the most destructive industries of our time."
Geithner: The Future of Housing Finance
Today we consider the challenge of how to build a more stable housing finance system.
Unanimous! Maine Woods Coalition Rejects Forest Scheme
“This plan is a new scheme with same old plot to control the forest products industry in northern Maine."
Voters Back Tough Steps to Reduce Budget Deficit
Neither party has convinced Americans it is serious about the problem.
CA: Teaching Kids Endangered Species in 3-Dimensions
This year, environmental consciousness doesn’t need to wait for the classroom.
U.S. - Russia Cooperating On Forests
Total U.S. assistance is approximately $4.5 million.
Tax Dollars Go to Boosting Woodrat Population
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year is matching the state money up to 65 percent.
CA: Citizen Wants to Patrol Forest, Get Rid of Pot Farms
"There seems to be a feeling that in summertime don't go into the national forest because you might get shot,'" Good said.
USDA 43 States, Recipients of Conservation Innovation Grants
"The Grants will produce far-reaching results on issues including conservation management and bio-energy production, by facilitating development/adoption of new approaches, technologies."
TN: USFS Taps Students to Study Bat Population
Two graduate students attached a mic to a van. They drove slowly, collecting sounds they couldn’t hear with the naked ear.
ID: Governor Outraged Over Gray Wolf Re-Listing
Because it interferes with a planned wolf hunt, and he claims wolves are killing Idaho livestock.
Forest ORV Plans Heating Up in the Southwest
The Forest Service is releasing plans for managing off-road vehicles across Arizona/New Mexico.
