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An IUCN study has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient to climate change and support threatened East Bornean orangutan populations, recommending their use in reforestation efforts. ...
Adapt8, original developers of black and white tree trunk protectors, has moved production of Tree Guardians in-house. Manufacturing the product internally allows the company to offer both standard and custom sizes, provides significant freight savings and ensures product availability nation-wide and year-round. Tree Guardians are black and ...
Volunteers from across the nation fanned out across the grounds and completed projects including: 108 acres aerated, 5 acres limed, 46 acres received phosphorus, 4 trees received lightning protection, 3 Irrigation projects completed, 1 large retaining wall built, and And the children’s program planted 300 annuals and 15 shrubs at the Mast of the ...
Using some pleasant-smelling chemicals, avocado growers may soon be able to repel beetles that inject a potentially deadly fungus into their trees, saving fruit and money, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers say. When they’re infected with the laurel wilt fungus, redbay trees – a close cousin to the avocado ...
Follow these tips to care of cherry trees at home or on large acres of land. Choosing Which Type of Cherry Tree to Plant There are two main types of cherries trees. ...
The good news, though, is that tree-recycling efforts are now "ubiquitous" and recycling your tree is "easier than ever." ...
ArborGen, the world leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees, announced that for the second consecutive year it has supported the “Plant a Tree at Flight 93”reforestation efforts at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. ...
Further pay a community service payment of $50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to be used “to promote the conservation, identification and propagation of protected tree species used in the musical instrument industry and the forests where those species are ...
The production of frankincense may be halved in the next 15 years because of a massive reduction in the number of trees that produce it, according to Dutch and Ethiopian researchers. The aromatic resin — which is used in incense and perfume, and is one of the gifts that features in the Christmas story of the Nativity — is produced by tapping Boswellia ...
Past invaders have devastated native species of trees such as the American chestnut, hemlock, and American elm – tree species that had been part of American forests and city streets for centuries until the invasion of foreign pests decimated them. ...
Why 'Plant A Tree' program? Trees and forests are a crucial part of the Earth’s ecosystem. ...
Volunteers from CSX (NYSE: CSX), City Year and the Worcester Tree Initiative will plant 100 trees from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 11 at Dodge Park on Randolph Road, a site hit particularly hard by the Asian Longhorned Beetle. ...
Many of the benefits that the poor get from ecosystems do not depend on high biodiversity, said Craig Leisher, senior social-science advisor at the US-based Nature Conservancy, a non-profit conservation organisation. For example, monocultured tree farms can protect watersheds just as well as biodiverse forests. ...
Trees are also the primary source of fuel for most of the world’s poor. ...
Why plant a tree program? Trees and forests are a crucial part of the Earth's ecosystem. ...
In a new study on Douglas-fir tree populations, research suggests that the trees could be selectively bred for high density wood to increase resistance to drought. With predictions that the frequency of droughts could increase over the coming century, such strategies to protect tree populations could aid climate change adaptation ...