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In an slew of upcoming Hollywood releases, our environment will be playing the roll of unlikely hero (or perhaps…damsel in distress.) The antagonist? All of humanity. From the NYT: Tired of abuse by mankind, the earth is angry. Worse, the planet is out to even the score. The Simpson’s Movie, The Happening,”the Transformers, a Creature…

The (what I believe is) Dutch online magazine “PCM” has picked up on our new iLoveMountains.org-GoogleEarth project. They have VERY kind words for everyone’s work: Hoewel Google Earth voornamelijk wordt gebruikt om van bovenaf de mooiste en interessantste plekken op aarde te bekijken, is het door en pas uitgebrachte functionaliteit nu ook mogelijk om te…

Forestland Evaluation and Site Assessment (FLESA) provides communities with the tools to assess their forest resources, identify local values and goals, and better integrate natural resources into economic development strategies and planning in relation to the larger landscape.

[Arkansas] “For years and years people didn’t — and some people still don’t — realize the value of cedar on their land,” Mark Starnes told Ozark Woodland Owners Association members recently at Ozarka College in Melbourne. A specialty market exists in which some particularly good trees may be sold by the tree for high prices,…

Press Release – For Immediate Release Mountaintop Removal Featured in Latest Google Earth Release ———————————— Contact: Appalachian Voices Mary Anne Hitt, Executive Director | 828-262-1500 (w) | 540-239-0073 (c) | Matthew Wasson, PhD, Conservation Director | 828-262-1500 (w) | 828-773-0788 (c) | ———————————— March 12, 2007 Boone, NC – Today’s release of featured content in…

Very big news – Google has released new featured content in the popular Google Earth program that includes the mountaintop removal coal mining layer at the heart of www.iLoveMountains.org. The new featured content, which can be seen and explored by all 200 million users of Google Earth worldwide, includes the National Memorial for the Mountains,…

Appalachian Voices is thrilled to announce that as of this morning, an updated high-resolution version of the “National Memorial for the Mountains” will be available as “featured content” to the millions of people who use GoogleEarth software. This means that millions of people who have never heard of mountaintop removal, will be exposed to it…

[Louisiana] The Louisiana Mississippi Watershed Project (LMWP) — a cooperative effort of the Forest Service, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Louisiana Forestry Association — is aimed at restoring some of the hardwood forests in the delta region. The project, made possible by a federal grant administered by the Forest Service, is…

[Virginia] Timber remains by far the highest-value agricultural natural resource harvested in Virginia, according to a new Department of Forestry report. Raw timber is harvested annually in Virginia at a value of about $928 million. That compares with an annual value of $732 million in poultry and eggs and $386 million in field crops. The…

[Virginia] Timber remains by far the highest-value agricultural natural resource harvested in Virginia, according to a new Department of Forestry report. Raw timber is harvested annually in Virginia at a value of about $928 million. That compares with an annual value of $732 million in poultry and eggs and $386 million in field crops. The…