Organic Gardening: Urban Forestry and Your Home. How homeowners can improve tree canopy. In 1969, Walter Cronkite announced on the CBS Evening News that Chattanooga, TN was the most polluted city in the United States. It was a harsh national indictment of a city already plagued by a faltering economy and racial tension, but it ultimately prompted the newly-founded EPA to allocate billions of dollars into downtown redevelopment. Part of the urban renaissance that followed over the next 30 years involved planting some 10,000 trees in the downtown area...
MSU Website helps prepare for and recover from hurricanes.MSU's Forest and Wildlife Research Center has created the web site www.windwoodutilization.org to help prepare for and recover from hurricanes and other large-scale wind storms that damage forests. The site is a hub for information specifically related to the preparation for, response to, recovery from major wind events and the utilization of downed and damaged timber and woody debris that can be generated. Funding for the website’s creation was provided by the federal Department of Energy through MSU’s Sustainable Energy Research Center. Since its debut in September 2009, the website has been accessed by about 3,000 individuals...
Spring is a great time to walk your property and check your boundary lines. You should also be completing any tree planting projects you have. When you need a break, take some time to read the spring edition of the Virginia Forest Landowner Update...
Atlanta, GA—The Forest Landowners Association (FLA) honored families and distinguished members of the forestry community during the 2010 National Forest Landowners Conference, June 2-4, in Stevenson, Washington. The family with the most members present at the 2010 National Forest Landowners Conference, the Land family originally of Melvin, Alabama with nine family members present, was recognized. Family members included Dorothy Gunn of Waynesboro, Mississippi; Mary Alva and Bob Seymour of Leavenworth, Kansas; Anthony, Meredith, Amelia, and Alice Lang of Lawrence, Kansas; and Jackie and Harry Haney of Austin, Texas.
The conference, co-hosted by the American Forest Foundation (AFF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), will be held in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina on June 23rd and 24th, 2010.
Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources provide Virginia landowners the opportunity to gain an understanding of basic forest management principles and techniques through an online course. Targeted to private landowners, the course will teach participants how to become better stewards of their land.
The N.C. Energy Office’s Seventh Annual Sustainable Energy Conference, “Sustainability: Moving Beyond the Federal Stimulus,” (April 20 &21) will feature keynote presentations by Harry Wingo, Google policy counsel focusing on energy and cybersecurity; Nate Hurst, Walmart’s director of sustainability and Jörg Mayer, director of the German Renewable Energies Agency.
The "1910 Fires: A Century Later" conference is scheduled for May 20-22 in Wallace, Idaho.
Please consider presenting a paper or poster at the 16th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference (BSSRC), including the special session, Southern Forest Science in Support of a Low Carbon Economy. Please visit our web page for conference details: http://www.ncsu.edu/feop/BSSRC.
NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is proud to host the 2010 National Outreach Scholarship Conference at the Raleigh Convention Center. Mark your calendars for October 4 through 6, 2010 to join NC State in Raleigh for the 11th annual meeting as we explore how universities Sustain Authentic Engagement.
