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The latest edition of CFRC’s newsletter “Community Forestry Connections” is now available online. The Fall 2006 edition features stories on our work with woody biomass harvesting, the activities of forest landowner cooperatives across the Midwest , efforts to build markets for sustainable wood products, invasive plants in our forests and more. News notes are courtesy…

Exciting news – a blogger on the NetSquared site has chosen iLoveMountains for his list of Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006. We’re in very good company on his list. More about NetSquared: Our mission is to help non-profit organizations understand, use and expand the social web. There’s a whole new generation of online…

Farm workers aren’t the only guest workers who have had a rough go of it. Immigrant workers in the U.S. on similar temporary H-2B visas fill jobs that even most undocumented immigrants don’t want: the forestry work which keeps our nation’s national forests and commercial tree plantations running. After landscaping, forestry is the second largest…

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (dep) Annual Report Fiscal Year 2004 – 2005 For more than a decade, the Department of Environmental Protection has been the state’s environmental regulatory agency. Over time, the agency has evolved, focusing not only on the regulated community, but also the West Virginians we work hard to protect. West…

More creative measures used to preserve species amid development [ North Carolina ] Only two cherry-bark oak trees tower along others in this old forest north of Jacksonville in the far reaches of Onslow County in southeastern N.C. Hunting for the cherry-bark oak and other trees that are becoming rare in the county is becoming…

Residents question plan to further pollute river Regulators have approved a coal company’s plan to dump wastewater into the Levisa Fork. By John Cramer 981-3140 GRUNDY — Wade McNeely, a disabled coal miner, stood along the Levisa Fork, marveling at the river’s bounty and waste. “The smallmouth bass fishing is great,” he said. “You just…

The Appalachian State Renewable Energy Initiative (REI) has a new website going up. They are one of the greatest groups doing renewable energy work in western North Carolina. This is Mary filling the first ASU truck with biodiesel! And the “AppalCart” – Boone’s public transportation – will now be powered by biodiesel as well thanks…

The WorldWatch Institute recently had an article featuring iLoveMountains.org. They touch on the astronomical scale of Mountaintop Removal: According to a 2003 U.S. government report, more than 800 square miles (1,287 kilometers) of mountains in the United States have been destroyed, the equivalent of a quarter-mile (0.4 kilometer) wide swath of devastation from New York…

[Georgia] Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP represented Resource Management Service LLC (RMS), Forest Investment Associates (FIA), and other investors that are part of a consortium of buyers led by RMS, in their purchase of International Paper timberland holdings, a deal which closed Friday. The $5 billion transaction is considered the largest private timberland sale in…

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