forester News
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Win for EMPSi and Wild and Scenic River Studies
Building off of its work developing a regional approach to Wild and Scenic River eligibility studies, EMPSi has been awarded a contract from the US Forest Service’s Intermountain Region to develop and implement a regional approach for WSR suitability studies as well. By using this approach, the Forest Service ensures consistency across forests in the region while providing defensible ...
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Forest Service International Programs leads study tour for Chileans
During an eight-day trip, Toby Bloom, Forest Service International Programs specialist, led four delegates from the Chilean Forest Commission to the Southwest Region to learn ways to involve indigenous groups in public use planning and environmental outreach. The group visited the Jemez Pueblo Visitor Center, Zuni Pueblo, and several national forests and reserves with significance to Native ...
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Truce in the woods - landmark pact will protect Canadas boreal forest
The biggest, most ambitious forest conservation deal ever will bring to an end more than seven years of campaigning by environmental groups to protect Canada"s Boreal Forest. Under the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Greenpeace and eight other non-governmental organizations have agreed to a "truce" with the logging ...
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New Webinar Series: eeINSPIRE
NAAEE is excited to introduce eeINSPIRE—a new professional development webinar series offered in partnership with the US Forest Service and designed to spark innovation in environmental education. We surveyed Forest Service educators about their top interests and needs for EE professional development and designed this series to bring these new ideas and thinking to their work. Not a ...
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Conference: Our forests, our future
The ‘Our Forests, Our Future‘ conference was organised by the EU Commission and took place in Brussels on 25-26 April 2019. ‘Forests are at the heart of our European natural heritage; they are a part of who we are. So many of our treasured stories and myths are based in the forest, meaning that from a young age, every European learns to appreciate trees and forests as a part ...
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Sino-Forest Announces Revised CCAA Plan Implementation Date
Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company") today announced that the Plan Implementation Date, the date on which the Company's CCAA Plan of Compromise and Reorganization dated December 3, 2012 (the "Plan") is to become effective, has been extended with the consent of the Initial Consenting Noteholders and the Monitor. While Sino-Forest has been working diligently with the ...
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Department of Agriculture to halt road building, logging in America’s forests
The Obama administration has announced it is issuing a one-year moratorium on road building and development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests, including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a directive reinstating most of a Clinton-era ban against new road construction and development in national forests. The 2001 rule ...
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A day spent in nature is never a lost day
As spring arrives in Geneva, forests are coming back to life and animals are enjoying the first warm days, we hear from Julian Rad, a runner up in our 2018 ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. Julian tells us about his photo ‘Sniffling’ and why forests and wild animals are his favourite photo motives. How do you feel about forests, both professionally ...
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Private forest owners in Sweden increase revenues with Katam
Göran Johansson, a private forest owner in Sweden, found in Katam a powerful tool to close more sales deals and increase his profits. He mentions that for every forest owner it is important to know exactly what they have; in this way, they will be able to give the wood buyers an accurate price. Watch his story ...
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Ranking Member Stabenow Statement on the Senate Passage of the Great American Outdoors Act
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act. “Our public lands and forests are an integral part of our way of life. By investing in our national forests, the Great American Outdoors ...
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Norfolk Southern, GE Host 2nd Railroad Sustainability Symposium
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Norfolk Southern Corp. and GE Transportation kicked off the second Railroad Sustainability Symposium at the Class I's 14,000-acre Brosnan Forest Conference Center near Charleston, S.C. Sponsored by NS and GE, the three-day conference will include presentations on current sustainability practices, an industry perspective on sustainability from the ...
By 3BL Media
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Continental Forest in Spain Highlights the Drive to Sustainability
Continental, the Collaborating Urban Planning Authority of Ecopolígono Conservation Plataforma Central Iberum, Groupe CAT and URBAN CM have collaborated to plant the 500 trees and 1,500 shrubs that make up the Continental Forest The forest is located in the Central Iberian Peninsula and the collaboration highlights the sustainability values of Continental, reflected in the creation of ...
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Parents magazine, KaBOOM! and foresters team up for a “win a playground”contest
A safe, developmentally appropriate neighborhood recreation area is as fundamental to a healthy, happy childhood as a good school. This summer, Parents magazine, KaBOOM!, the nonprofit organization on a mission to save play, and Foresters™, a life insurance provider that champions the well-being of families, invite communities to support the idea that play is a right of all children by ...
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Membership opens for GreenBlue’s forest products working group
Sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue has opened membership for its newly formed Forest Products Working Group, which brings together leading companies that rely on paper, wood, and other forest products to share their knowledge and develop new solutions for making their businesses more sustainable. The group was first publicly announced in October 2011 with eight founding members: Avery Dennison ...
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Old rural parks can provide important refuges for forest biodiversity
Woodlands in the grounds of old manor houses or castles can provide high quality habitat for numerous forest species, a recent study from Estonia concludes. The researchers found that, compared to nearby forests, old rural park woodlands appeared to be better at supporting biodiversity. Logging and commercial plantations have degraded many ancient European forests, and now only small fragments ...
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Seaweed `forests` can help fight climate change
Seaweed 'forests' can help fight climate change ...
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REDD agreement sends glimmer of hope to private sector
Governments have pledged $4 billion in finance for projects to protect forests through the intergovernmental REDD+ ...
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Boster Fiera
BOSTER, acronym of Bosco (forest) and Territorio (territory) is the biggest Italian outdoor international event focused on the enhancement of forest resources and the sustainable management of the mountain territory. The fair took place from 2nd to 4th July 2021 in Olux in the Turin region. Everything was organized by our Italian dealer Metal Agricola Srl. We exhibited the Forwarders ...
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Learn to love forests, learn about Humans of the Forests!
Forests provide so much. They are beautiful, they keep our water fresh, they clean our air, and their timber is an important renewable and sustainable resource for so many of our day-to-day products. Yet there is so much more about forests than meets the eye, and forests inspire and evoke deep emotions in many of us. It is these emotions that we want to capture with our new video series, ...
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Forest Community agrees to take joint action towards greening the economy
The Rovaniemi Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy was adopted today by the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). The Action Plan provides a solid platform for the forest sector to support transformation to a green bio-based economy in Europe, North America, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Forest leaders decided ...
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