The change will allow contractors to invest in gear and train workers [Oregon] A top Bush administration forestry official announced Wednesday that the Forest Service will try a new business model for contract work in federal forests to help prevent…

Sustainable operations are good for the environment. But they can be even better for business, as 181 FSC certified printers are learning. Whether pushed by customer demand and industry regulation or motivated by personal conviction, printing “green” is an accelerating…

[Washington, DC] The Administration’s proposed federal budget for Fiscal Year 2008, released Feb. 5, deeply cuts funding for land conservation programs and further threatens this country’s decades-long commitment to protecting public lands. Despite…enormous need, the Administration’s FY 2008 budget proposed…

The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) released a new interactive website that offers consolidated information on a variety of threats facing forest land. The website provides information for landowners, researchers, land managers and policy makers on topics such…

[Vermont] For some, a fungus success story means nothing is growing at the back of their refrigerator. But for Costa, research assistant professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont, and Grassano, his graduate student, the vigorous…

[Maine] Acid rain is still a threat to more than one-third of Maine’s forestland, according to a new study presented Tuesday in Portland. While not the urgent and unregulated threat it was in the 1980s, enough acidic pollutants are settling…

Mountain Voices Alliance (no relation) is working hard with the citizens of Buncombe County to stop an oil-burning plant which would be situatied just North of Asheville. This map from The Ashevillianillustrates the location of the proposed Diesel Power Plant…

[Georgia] Less than two weeks ago when President Bush told the country it needed to produce a whopping 35-billion gallons of biofuels a year by 2017, he may have had Georgia on his mind. Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue announced…

From Brent at ASUSES… Beech Mtn saw a lot of wind yesterday. The turbines are all fine and enjoying life up here. The winds were a steady 30-45 mph. The max gust was 71.3 mph yesterday, 2/22/07 @ 4:10pm. The…

Increasingly, economic measures are being used to assess ecosystems by way of the universally comprehensible currency of money. As it is, environmentalists “aren’t really relevant in policy and business decision-making. If we don’t do something to become relevant, we don’t…