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Cooperative Forestry Southern Region and the Washington Office staff hosted a national Landowner Assistance Program meeting in historic Charleston , South Carolina October 3-5, 2006. For the first time, the meeting was held in conjunction with the annual Forest Legacy Program meeting – and all states and territories were invited to participate. Approximately 100 Forest…

TALKING POINTS * The kids at Marsh Fork Elementary need a new school in their own community now more than ever. * Every child deserves a safe and healthy school in their own community. * Forget a new silo – build the kids a new school! * Massey’s own air quality permit predicts an increase…

The timberland picture in the U. S. has changed dramatically during the past decade and clearly will continue to do so. The objective of this site is to monitor those changes and to think through their implications. Are the changes good or bad and who gets to determine what good is? As timberland shifts from…

[Oregon] Owners of some timberlands surrounding the Portland area have done their best to go green… But until this year, most of those timber owners …lacked an outlet to consumers willing to spend more for wood harvested under strict environmental standards. The struggle to build a connection between supply and demand for environmental lumber is…

[California] Plan-It Hardware and Friedman’s Home Improvement have announced the introduction of the new Green It Yourself campaign in the three Friedman’s stores in Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Ukiah. The company selected hundreds of products that offer the greenest option in many hardware categories including paints, lawn-and-garden, housewares and cleaners, plumbing, and lighting. Selecting green…

[Colorado] Aspen Skiing Co. is removing all Kimberly-Clark products from its resorts, hotels and restaurants because of Kimberly-Clark’s sustainable forestry practices, the company said in a letter to Greenpeace. In the letter, the company said it was switching to other paper tissue suppliers, “whose operations are more environmentally sound.” “Businesses and the public alike are…

(bumped – J-Dub) The WV State Surface Mine Board, comprised of just seven individuals, has overturned a DEP ruling which barred a second coal silo from being built right next to Marsh Fork Elementary. After rejecting the silo in 2005, last August the DEP again denied the permit for the second silo. But the WV…

This time at Dutch Cowboys! The Netherlands can’t get enough. Question…don’t most trends start in Europe? Update: Slashdot, rockin the English! “On Monday, an environmental advocacy group [Appalachian Voices] joined with Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth. This new layer will tell “the stories of over 470 mountains that have been…

Check out Appalachian Voices’ Conservation Director, Dr. Matt Wasson, on the “Mountain Television Network” talking about the GoogleEarth project. Dr. Wasson comes on right after the first segment on the ASU basketball team.

Former NC Senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful John Edwards has followed Tom Vilsack’s lead in anouncing that he will be running a “carbon-neutral” campaign to help fight global warming. And thats awesome. He will offset the carbon emissions emitted by his and his staff’s campaign travel and the energy used in his campaign headquarters and…