17-01-2018 - evergreenmagazine.com Retired Nevada State Forester, Bob Roper, has written a brutally honest assessment of the underlying and still unresolved problems associated with the West’s wildfire crisis.
17-01-2018 - cepf-eu.org Reacting to European Parliament’s vote on the Directive on the Promotion of the Use of Energy from Renewable Sources today, forest owners and managers welcome it as a positive step.
07.01.2018 - independent.co.uk - Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor 'I think there was a clear message about that and that's why I say there won't be a vote on fox hunting during this parliament'
18.12.2017 - The Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) congratulates Ms Köstinger on her new prominent political position as Austrian Federal Minister for Sustainability, Agriculture and Tourism.
(US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fish Lake) December 09, 2017 - POPULUS TREMULOIDES - Ephrat Livni - qz.com The largest and oldest living organism on Earth is the Pando clone, a quaking aspen colony of over 47,000 trees in Utah that stretches over 106-acres, weighs 13 million pounds, and is 80,000 years old.
10 Dec, 2017 - rt.com A huge blaze has engulfed and destroyed a 16-story wooden tower, known as the tallest of its kind in Asia, after a fire raged through a monastery in Sichuan Province, southwest China.
A year after the first FLEGT licences from Indonesia entered the EU market (15 November 2016), it is expected that Ghana will soon become the second country to export FLEGT-licensed timber to the EU (see the Ghana update below), and the first in Africa.
József Lanszkia, 1, Gergely Schallyb, Miklós Heltaib, Nathan Ranc - sciencedirect.com 08-12-2017 The Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) is currently undergoing a rapid range expansion.
Mycorrhizal fungi are a type of fungi that help trees feed on minerals in the soil and, in turn, feed off sugars in tree roots. New research by a US Forest Service scientist and partners suggests that the type of mycorrhizal fungi dominant December 1, 2017 - phys.org New research published by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and Purdue University suggests that tiny soil fungi that help and are helped by trees may influence a forest's vulnerability to invasion by non-native plants.
01-12-2017 - By STEPHEN FLOYD H&N Staff Reporter - heraldandnews.com Klamath County expects to receive roughly $32,608 from a $1.4 million federal payout to O&C Lands Act counties.
By Elizabeth Joseph and Steve Almasy, CNN - November 25, 2017 A woman walking her dogs near her western New York home was fatally shot Wednesday by a man who told police he mistook her for a deer.
Budapest, 18 October 2017- When the health, biodiversity, or even long-term survival of forests is at risk, the culprit is not always logging, road-building or urban sprawl.
Kyodo - Sep 18, 2017 - japantimes.co.jp KOCHI – A town in Shikoku has developed a meat-processing truck designed to quickly slaughter wild boar and deer killed by hunters, in an effort to utilize game that previously went to waste.
Patrick Barkham - Saturday 16 September 2017 Villagers in the Forest of Dean back plans to release a beaver family to protect their homes by damming waterways Beavers could be put to work building dams to stop a village from flooding in the Forest of Dean, in what would be the first such scheme on government land.
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer Sep 6, 2017 - bozemandailychronicle.com Montana officials want to cut down some trees on state land south of Bozeman, but a group of locals who oppose the project want to pay the state to leave it untouched.