News WASHINGTON D.C. – The U.S. Forest Service awarded a half million dollars in matching challenge cost-share funds today to improve children's health and close the widening gap between America's youth and the outdoors.
News By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON - Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands this year as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods. The $1.5 million "Kids in the Woods'' program is aimed at a growing problem among American school children: a lack of direct experience with nature that experts say can contribute to childhood obesity, diabetes and even attention deficit disorder.
The price of forest land in Sweden has increased considerably during the last years. The price increase seems to continue during the spring although supply of land also increases. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a poll made by LRF Konsult, the biggest land and forest agency in Sweden.
By James Núnez The Department of Sustainability and Environment in Victoria has been conducting fuel reduction burns in national parks and state forests across the state, with the aim of reducing the risk of bushfires this summer.
News FAO Forestry Paper 151 Fire management is an essential part of sustainable forest management. This publication complements the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005) as an in-depth thematic study on the incidence, impact and management of forest fires in different regions of the world.
News An international forest protection group says Europe and the United States must persuade China to bring its booming timber trade under control. A report from The Tropical Forest Trust says that, without proper controls, China's increasing timber trade will cause irreplaceable deforestation across the world.
Gainesville – Tropical plants may be more adaptable than commonly thought to changing rainfall patterns expected to accompany a warming climate, new research shows. A University of Florida scientist and other researchers have found that plants in Hawaii have the ability to acclimate to big changes in rainfall in at least one important respect - how they get nutrients. The plants largely rely on one form of the vital nutrient nitrogen in moist areas.
News By Kristen Allen Experts are warning of an epidemic of disease-bearing ticks in Germany this summer after a particularly mild winter. Their range is likely to keep increasing as the climate warms.
News Commonly Nature Protection in Forests and Wood Production Play an Essential Role for Sustainable Development in Central and Eastern Europe Better coordination of policies for forestry and nature protection proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) can help to satisfy increasing needs for recreation and biodiversity in forests, not harming at the same time growing demand in forest products.
23rd Task Force Meeting of the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests – 16 May 2007, Zvolen, Slovakia the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests operating under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.
Data&Facts Forestry Statistics - 2007 edition PDF document, size 6 MB
News How to ensure that the future of the North American forest and paper industry is green and competitive? This is the question that over 20 prominent speakers from the U.S. and Canada will address at the 2007 ForestLeadership Conference, to be held on May 9th at the Westin Bayshore hotel in Vancouver, BC.
EMRC and PROGIS have the pleasure to invite you to the AgriBusiness Forum 2007 focusing on "Value Chain & Innovation in the World Global Food System" , which will be held on 3-5 June 2007 at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The programme of the new Finnish Government contains a promise to abolish inheritance and gift tax on agricultural and forest property, as well as to use other tax incentives for improving the conditions for timber production.
News By Michael McCarthy The changing nature of British bird life over the past 20 years is to be mapped in detail in a massive new survey by an army of more than 50,000 bird watchers. New species, disappearing species, declines and recoveries will be plotted across Britain and Ireland over four years at a cost of more than L1m.
News IRKUTSK - A 300-hectare wildlife area of the Baikal national park is on fire, an official of the regional department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday.
NELSONVILLE, Ohio - More than 200 acres of charred trees now mar the landscape of Wayne National Forest after a controlled burn aimed at regenerating the woodland's oak species and saving the forest ecosystem.
News Ms Marie S. Arwidson The Swedish Forest Industries Association has commissioned a poll covering 2,800 persons about their attitude to Swedish forestry and forest industry. As much as 88 % of the interviewed persons indicated a positive attitude to Swedish forestry.
