The Community Forestry Resource Center has a new set of online tools for forest landowners and resource managers that are considering the use of pesticides in their forest management planning. The page includes: a step-by-step guide to planning for pesticide…
Monthly Archives: January 2007
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. is a newly organized not-for-profit corporation established at the request of the governments of the United States and Canada in accordance with the terms of the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) between the…
LogPrice.com
Links to sources of timber price information by state. This site is sponsored by the American Resources Group in cooperation with National Woodland Owners Association and the National Forestry Association. News notes are courtesy of Southern Forests Network News Notes…
Societies Choices: Land Use Changes, Forest Fragmentation, and Conservation
The November 2006 issue of Science Findings, a newsletter of the Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNWRS), focuses on changing land use patterns, forest fragmentation, and conservation. Ralph Alig, a researcher with the PNWRS in Corvallis , OR , has studied…
100 Million Acres Certified!
The Rainforest Alliance has now certified more than 100 million acres (40 million hectares) of forestland in 58 countries. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), with its multi-stakeholder approach, is the global standard setter for responsible forestry. The Rainforest Alliance is…
Genetics Reveal 15 New North American Bird Species
[Sweden] Genetic tests of North American birds show what may be 15 new species including ravens and owls — look alikes that do not interbreed and have wrongly had the same name for centuries, scientists said on Sunday. If the…
Screening for Invasive Species Could Save U.S. Billions
A new study shows that screening for potentially harmful foreign plant species before they are imported is more economically beneficial than fighting them after they take root in new areas. Because the United States has no screening program for invasive…
Native longleaf down to last stand
State trying to restore pine forests that once blanketed the southern U.S. [ Virginia ] longleaf pines …once covered more than a million acres in southeastern Virginia and for years were pillars of the region’s economy. Virginia now has only…
Timber firms challenged to ‘green up’
[ Oregon ] Conservation groups are moving beyond the courtroom into the marketplace to pressure two of the nation’s largest timber companies to green up their acts on private forest lands and challenge the timber industry’s sustainable forestry standard. In…
