News By Leonard Anderson SAN FRANCISCO — Move over Smokey the Bear. In California, thousands of goats are helping prevent wildfires. From hilly San Francisco to more rural settings, California landowners, business and officials have hired the voracious animals to devour the grass and brush that fuels wildfires.
By MARTA STEEMAN Forestry investors are calling on the Government to relinquish carbon credits from forests and allow forest owners to own and trade them They say the Government's embarrassing Kyoto blunder would be solved because forestry would be much more economic with carbon credits and planting would take off again. Plantings after 1990 create carbon sinks, which earn credits.
News Coillte Teoranta (The Irish Forestry Board) is a leading Irish company which operates in forestry and related businesses. The name Coillte is the Irish language word for woodlands. The company's shareholders are the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, who own the shares on behalf of the Irish State.
News This is one of the very first pictures of the wolf in the Southern Swiss canton of Ticino (read Mark Schulman's story about the wolf's return to Switzerland).
Railways of the Forest DISTANCE: 12 miles MAP: Outdoor Leisure 22 - The New Forest START: A choice of three car parks. Setley Pond at 302992, take the third turning right after leaving Brockenhurst railway station on the road to Lymington. The pond is just along the road to the left. Or try Wilverley Inclosure car park at 254011 or Wootton Bridge at 251998. For a full page road map showing the start point of Setley Pond.
News An opening workshop of FAO/ TCP/ Hungarian Project/3003 (A) was held at the Buják hotel of Hungarian Ministry of Defence, on June 24th 2005. In accordance with the agreement signed on September 8th 2004, FAO will grant a US $ 271,000 project lauched by HM Budapesti Erdõgazdaság Rt. (Forestry of Budapest Co. under Ministry of Defence) for development and enhancement of initiative forest management methods and operations.
News The second European Wood Day will be staged in the Yayoi Auditorium of the prestigious Tokyo University this autumn. Cooperation in invitations and arrangements has already been promised by the University and by the Japan Association of Timber Engineering. The conference is arranged by the partners in European Wood. Japanese authorities, architects, specifiers, construction companies and educators will be the prime target groups.
News SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian agriculture tycoon Blairo Maggi, the world's largest soy producer, has been voted winner of environmental group Greenpeace's first Golden Chainsaw award for contributing to Amazon destruction. Maggi, who is also governor of Mato Grosso state, secured 10,348 votes out of 27,849 cast in an Internet poll, Greenpeace said on its Web site on Monday. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was runner-up with 7,314 votes.
Denmark’s private forestry – representing 70 per cent of Denmark’s total afforested area –is in a very bad financial situation. In 2004 the financial result was an average deficit of 500 DKK (70 euro) per hectare of forest. At the end of August the Danish Government will present its long awaited programme for improving the forestry’s financial framework and its long term sustainability. The Government’s report on the financial situation of private forestry constitutes a first step.
Education Having gone a long road of many changes the present University of West Hungary Seated in Sopron, started functioning with seven faculties from January 1st 2000 as a merger of former Sopron University, Benedek Elek College of Pedagogy, Mosonmagyaróvár Faculty of Agriculture of Pannon University of Agriculture and that of Apáczai Csere János Teacher Training College.
LIGHT RAILWAY DAYS IN HUNGARY 2005 HTPEF (Hungarian Traffic Public Education Fund) has been organizing Narrow Gauge Railway Days since 1995 aiming at the conservation, demonstration and propagation of the unique traffic and transport history of the country. You can see particular railways and carriages of narrow gauge in locally organized programmes, and you can also take unforgetable journeys even on trains driven by steam engines. During the programs you can see famous places and sights of the region, main attractions and beauties of the area as well as customs and traditions. The organizers are pleased to welcome everybody to the Railway Days! Date Railway Region Information April 9. Széchenyi-hegyi Gyermekvasút +36 (1) 397-5392 April 16. Almamelléki ÁEV Baranya megye +36 (73) 354-251 April 23. Debreceni Zsuzsi EV Hajdú-Bihar megye +36 (52) 417-212 April 23. Mesztegnyői ÁEV Somogy megye +36 (85) 329-312 May 7. Királyréti ÁEV megye +36 (27) 375-076 May 21. Kaszói ÁEV Somogy megye +36 (82) 352-065 May 28. Lillafüredi ÁEV Borsod-Abaúj-Z. megye +36 (46) 530-593 May 28. Trencsén-Árvai Erdei Múzeumvasút Felvidék (Szlovákia) +421 (41) 439-7219 June 4. Felsőtárkányi ÁEV Heves megye +36
Who is who? G. Pinchot born Aug. 11, 1865, Simsbury, Conn., U.S. died Oct. 4, 1946, New York, N.Y. U.S. forestry and conservation pioneer.
1-3 Pirosalma street Székesfehérvár 8000 Tel.:00-36-22/516-520; geo@geo.info.hu This faculty of the university teaches land surveyor engineering, land manager engineering and real estate and property registration as its fundamental training and offers specialisation courses in UNIGIS spatial information science, land managing information science, land property cadastral specialisation and structural geodesy. It also has staff development trainings for clerks, administrators, technicians and managers for property registration, digital mapping and spatial information science and spatial information science management taught by the faculty as OKJ courses. Furthermore, property estimators and executives can have postgraduate courses and courses in decision preparation to spatial informatical tasks and spatial informatical administration are also available. The faculty is the Hungarian centre of UNIGIS international distance learning.
5 Ady Endre street Sopron 9400 Tel.:00-36-99/518-207; Fax:00-36-99/329-808 fdoffice@emk.nyme.hu The faculty educates forestry, environment engineering and environmental sciences for university level degree (5 years study time), teaches nature protection on full time courses for college degree (3 years study time) and wildlife managers on full time as well as correspondence courses for college degrees. Furthermore, the faculty offers courses for training experts at environmental management, forest plants protection and a postgraguate course in nature protection. Besides Sopron, Csíkszereda (Transsylvania) is a training centre of correspondence courses for forestry engineers and wildlife managers.
1) OBJECTIVE To define the objectives of the European Community with regard to cooperation on the development of forestry, to identify areas where dialogue and assistance are required and set out the action planned to realise the objectives, taking into account the experience gained in recent years.
The forest – The forestry – The deforestation
Michael Byrnes in Goulburn The biggest dam, Pejar A severe drought is drying up drinking water across Australia, threatening to shut down big population centres but also creating the conditions for a revolution in water use. Worst hit is the farming town of Goulburn, south-west of Sydney. Its biggest dam, Pejar, currently holds less than 10% of its 1,000 megalitre (220m gallon) capacity. The town will become the first in Australia to run out of water in six months, if it gets no substantial rain and if emergency plans for new water supplies fail to work.
News Byline: Juliette Wallack Winter moths BOSTON — The destruction is obvious through much of southeastern Massachusetts: Trees stripped of their leaves dot the landscape, leaving mostly brown and gray where green once was. Many of the leaves that have managed to withstand the attack bear evidence of the assault -- tiny bite marks and nibbles. Faced with outbreaks of two moth species known for their steady diet of leaves, experts are working to control the pesky critters and discover what is causing their spiraling numbers and widespread defoliation they leave in their paths.
