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News North Lawn Arbor Day 2005 President Bush, Secretary Johanns and Marshal Case, CEO of the American Chestnut Foundation, plant an American Chestnut tree on the White House lawn in celebration of Arbor Day. The American Chestnut dominated eastern woodlands before being virtually wiped-out by blight. As President Bush noted, this disease-resistant brings new hope.
News By Elliott Gotkine At the end of the world, a sky-blue stream sweeps down from an ice-glazed mountain on its way to the Beagle Channel. Wild horses chomp nonchalantly on lush, green bushes. Tourists gawp at a submerged forest as a beaver glides gracefully among the trees. This is the Argentine part of the island of Tierra del Fuego, which is shared with Chile. It looks like an ecological paradise.
News by Brian Fitzgerald Here's the obituary from the our main website of Bob Hunter, one of the great inspirations of Greenpeace, who died today of cancer. Everyone who met Bob has a story about him, and we hope to see some of them posted here: just hit the reply button at the bottom of the page. Stories are the best memorial to a great storyteller, and Bob's will be around for a long, long time.
News 09/05/05 - 13/05/05 Celje & Ljubljana, Slovenia The forest and the city are two extremes: the forest on one side as highly developed natural ecosystem, and the city on the other as the most perfect man made (eco)system. They are both integrated in an urban forest.
News Hunting is one of many options for using natural resources in forests. In many forests, too large cloven-hoofed game populations are still hampering the development of structurally diverse forests and their selective browsing of plants is causing a depletion of species. Hunting in forests must aim at a sustainable use of game populations. This can also minimize the burden placed on tax-payers (e.g. for costly measures to protect plantations against wild game).
Unasylva - No. 219 - Trade and sustainable forest management An international journal of forestry and forest industries - Vol. 55 2004/4 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Editor: A. Perlis Unasylva is published quarterly in English, French and Spanish editions.
News Forests play a particularly important role for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity on a global scale. Many forest ecosystems and species that naturally occur in Central Europe have specifically adapted to local environmental conditions. This also applies to Germany. A mosaic of manifold forest ecosystems has evolved here which has also been shaped by forestry interventions.
News Forest Service programs are siphoning money from the national forests' recreation programs, which is not true. WASHINGTON – With the White House calling for a big cut in spending, the U.S. Forest Service is asking local forest supervisors in Washington state and elsewhere to consider which campgrounds, trailheads, cabins, picnic areas and other recreation facilities could be closed to save money.
News For Europeans, a healthy environment is as important to their quality of life as the state of the economy and social factors, according to a new Eurobarometer survey. The environmental issues that citizens worry most about are water pollution, man-made disasters, climate change, air pollution and chemicals. The survey is also the first to examine attitudes towards the environment across the enlarged EU-25.
News Following the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, Europe now hopes to establish structures better tailored to its needs. The European institutions have therefore decided that the Festival of Europe 2005 should be on the subject of the European Constitution.
News Spotted owl population declining PORTLAND, Oregon – A decade after the Clinton administration reduced logging in national forests in the Northwest, scientists have concluded the forests are growing, but the population of the threatened northern spotted owl has declined.
News by Matthew Beard Climate change is playing havoc with the timing of the seasons and could drastically alter the landscape, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind. Frogs have begun spawning in Britain as early as October, oaks are coming into leaf three weeks earlier than they were 50 years ago and there were an unprecedented 4,000 sightings of bumblebees by the end of January this year.
Lack of competent labour may endanger forest work in Finland. Lumber jacks’ average age is circa 50 years and there are not enough young people coming. Many forest owners themselves work in their forests, but they are also getting older. Many instances endeavour to get young people interested in forest work and specific means are sought to get more active participation.
News BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A patch of China's state-owned forest has received authentication from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a sign that China's public forests have for the first time received recognition from the global market.
News Scottish Forestry Minister Lewis Macdonald went into the midst of an urban estate of brick-and-concrete houses today to launch a very different building project.
News MILWAUKEE- TAPPI Paper Expo will be held May 23-25, 2005, at the Midwest Airlines Convention Center in Milwaukee, WI. The Milwaukee event is the first in a new series of TAPPI Paper Expo exhibits that will rotate throughout the United States, bringing the latest technology and educational opportunities close to the nation's pulp and paper mills. TAPPI President Wayne Gross stated "With 25% of all U.S. mills within driving distance, Milwaukee is an ideal location for our first Paper Expo exhibit. Not only is it easy to get to, but it's very cost effective to visit. We look forward to bringing an excellent exhibit and high-quality educational programming to the area."
News Appeal to the Eurpean Court of Justice concerning Finland's decision in respect of the Natura 2000 European network of protected areas A number of Finnish landowners, together with the Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) have appealed to the European Court of Justice against the EU Commission's Natura-decision in respect of Finland.
Collection 1995–2005 FAO has published State of the World’s Forests – the Organization’s flagship publication presenting the latest information on major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector – every other year since 1995.
