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[ Canada ] A federal government report says the massive [mountain] pine beetle infestation in B.C. is threatening other species of trees and could spread right across the country. The pest is normally found in lodgepole pine, but the report says it now threatens the jack pine of the boreal forest, which could move the…

Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] – 5/26/2005 Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita [CA-37] – 5/26/2005 Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] – 5/26/2005 Rep Miller, George [CA-7] – 5/26/2005 Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] – 5/26/2005 Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-7] – 5/26/2005 Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] – 5/26/2005 Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] – 5/26/2005 Rep Gutierrez, Luis…

With increasing frequency, green building professionals are confronted with critiques of the LEED Rating System generated by the timber, plastics or residential home building industries. In this issue, HBN Founder Bill Walsh helps you read between the lies of the timber industry ‘ s disingenuous attacks on LEED and the US Green Building Council membership,…

Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees and Growing Reliance on Tree Plantations Jeopardize Endangered Forests in South Carolina and Worldwide [ Charleston , SC ] On Monday morning, environmental groups released a report detailing threats to native forests in South Carolina and the Americas from harmful industrial forestry practices. The focus of the report is the…

Im still collecting my thoughts and working to articulate my unrepentent awe at Ed’s accomplishment. He arrived in DC on his birthday healthy, energized, and a just a little road-wary. He was amazing at the press-conference. I hope that he is sitting under his favorite tree right now, and enjoying not having to walk 15+…

[ Thailand ] The illegal cutting of forests worldwide causes US$10 billion-a-year in losses and undermines a country ‘ s attempt to achieve sustainable economic growth, the World Bank said in a report released Saturday, September 16. The report said governments in recent years have begun to openly address the problem, but it singled out…

Governor Kaine Releases Poll Showing Widespread Support For Land Conservation Efforts August 23, 2006 – http://www.governor.virginia.gov ~ Virginians say access to outdoor recreation is important ~ RICHMOND – Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced results of a statewide survey showing widespread support for using government resources to protect open space. The survey also shows that…

The booklet compiles a number of informative articles and original reporting on mitigation and conservation banking. Conservation Banking is protecting a parcel of land containing natural resource values that are conserved and managed in perpetuity for specified listed species and used to offset impacts occurring elsewhere to the same resource values on non-bank lands. This…

[ Massachusetts ] Harvard Forest ‘s “Wildlands and Woodlands” proposal to conserve roughly half of Massachusetts as protected lands has received a boost from a new report detailing seven strategies to finance the ambitious proposal. The report emerged from an April conference of 40 conservation finance experts from across the nation, …Those experts recommended funding…

2006 Globe Newspaper Company. EDITORIAL September 12, 2006 FOREST FIRES often leave behind scorched or partially burned trees that some timber companies are happy to harvest –if the taxpayers will pay for the costly roads into the deep woods of the national forests. The loggers would also like to be exempted in their salvage work…