Monthly Archives: May 2006

Support Access to FSC Certification for Family Forest Owners & Small Forest-based Businesses

USGBC Board Tackles Wood Issue

[Washington, DC] The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board of Directors announced today that it has directed the USGBC’s LEED Steering Committee to address two proposed changes to LEED’s wood and bio-based materials credits… USGBC’s Board took action in response

In Chile Too…

Chilean mining companies are poised to completely destroy two glaciers, and create holes the size of mountains, in order to get to the gold and silver at the bottom. From a friend… In the Valle de San Felix, the purest

UN Convention Recognises GM Tree Threat

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) passed a formal declaration at its Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP-8) in Curitiba, Brazil on 31 March 2006 to recognize the threats posed by genetically modified (GM) (same as genetically engineered (GE)) trees,

Vanity Fair Nails It on Mountaintop Removal

Vanity Fair, of all things, recently published one of the best pieces on MTR I have ever seen. Please, please, please go read it.

Dogwood Strikes Again!

The Dogwood Alliance is picking up all the right kinds of enemies in their work to protect Southern Forests. Gandhi once said that when you seek justice, first the opposition ignores you, then they attack you and then you win

More Mercury

The Charlotte Observer has more on citizens who are speaking out against mercury pollution. A parade of young mothers, doctors and environmentalists on Thursday urged the state’s top environmental board to sharply rein in power plant emissions of mercury, a

ACTION: Speak Out Against Weak Mercury Controls!

From the NC Conservation Network: North Carolina has a growing mercury problem: NC is in the top ten in the country in mercury emissions, 22 types of fish are under a state consumption advisory due to mercury contamination, and 20%

Eastern Europe Still Facing Challenges in Forest Management

Appropriate Strategies Are Needed [Washington, DC] While the rest of Europe is steadily progressing towards sustainable forest management, Eastern European countries are facing many challenges, following the restitution of forests from the State to their previous owners, Many new forest

Uneven-Aged Management of Longleaf Pine Forests: A Scientists and Manager Dialogue

Methods for converting even-aged stands to eneven-aged stands, growth and yield, selection harvest techniques, optimum logging practices, effects on red-cockaded woodpeckers, prescribed burning approaches, regeneration, optimum stand structure for managment objectives, Competition tolerance and release potential of various age classes,

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