The Request for Nominations letter seeking candidates to serve on the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council will be mailed early next week.
The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) received 104 pre-proposals in response to the 2007 Challenge Cost-Share Grant Program.
The Wood Education and Resource Center is cosponsoring a variety ofworkshops and conferences with a number of partners this spring and summer.
The Nontimber Forest Product Curriculum Workbook, written by Dr. Kathryn Lynch, is available through the Institute for Culture and Ecology website. This project was funded by the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry.
(this information provided by Project Learning Tree, American Forest Foundation)Washington, D.C. - Environmental education may not yet be mainstream by this 39th anniversary of Earth Day, but there is growing recognition that it should be, with record levels of new funding that would be proposed under U.S. Senate and House bills introduced yesterday as the "No Child Left Inside Act of 2009." The bills would provide $100 million in new grants to schools that have adopted environmental literacy plans to provide environmental and outdoor educational opportunities for students and professional development for teachers.
An innovative conference entitled “New Strategies for Urban Natural Resources: Integrating Wildlife, Fisheries, Forestry and Planning” is being planned in Chicago for May 2007.
The "Timber Market Report" is a timber price service headquartered in Orlando, FL that is web-based and offers timber stumpage prices from Virginia to Texas. Most states have 3 to 6 market regions in the TMR system.
PRINCETON, W.Va.— Across the country, sawmills are finding it harder to operate under the constant financial squeeze between operating costs and lumber values. In these challenging times, it is critical that mill owners and managers have easy access to information about sawmill operating costs as well as detailed information about key operational factors such as the break-even costs of logs. Now a group of researchers and computer scientists at the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station has developed two software tools that can help.
Bobwhite Quail in Florida: Ecology and Management By William Giuliano, James Selph, and Brandon Schad The bobwhite quail is an important part of Florida's ecosystem and has long been a favorite bird of wildlife enthusiasts and hunters. Until recently, it was a common occurrence to hear their distinctive call or to experience the startling burst of a covey taking flight out of the tall grass. However, changes in land use over the past fifty years have led to dramatic declines in quail populations in Florida and throughoutNorth America.
Wildfires are an important and necessary occurrence in many natural areas of the southern United States, but they also present a risk to homes constructed in, or next to, such areas. All homes are not equally at risk for a variety of reasons. This risk assessment will allow you to determine your particular risk to fire as well as the critical factors that increase your risk and how you can reduce them.
