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Bob Roper on Wildfires and What to do Next

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.

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The world’s largest and oldest organism is super stressed out

(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.

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Asia's tallest wooden tower burns to ground

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.

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Belowground fungal interactions with trees help explain non-native plant invasions

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.

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Klamath getting $33K in additional timber funds

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.

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Meet the latest recruit to the UK flood defence team: the beaver (theguardian.com)

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.

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Bear-problems in Romania: who is to blame?

By Nick Huisman on August 8, 2017 - wilderness-society.org - Romania is home to the largest number of brown bears in Europe, approximately 6,600 individuals.

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