Hurricane Katrina roared through Mississippi on August 29, 2005. In her path, some 1.2 million acres of forestland were damaged. This is about two years worth of annual harvest down in one day. Hardwood bottomlands, pine sawtimber, and recently thinned pine stands were most severely damaged
Links to web resources launched to coordinate efforts that are underway to evaluate, mitigate and recover from the tremendous effect Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had on the forest resources of the Western Gulf.
This website features research on peoples' perspectives and behaviors regarding nature in the city.
March 9 - The Gannet News Service has reported that congressional representatives have succeeded in getting a one-year, $400 million extension for the Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Act by including language in an emergency funding bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are three courses scheduled so far in 2007.
Funding is intended to stimulate projects that will utilize advanced communications technologies (e.g. web pages, videoconferencing, video streaming, chat rooms, etc) to share information and solutions on topics of concern to national forests and their neighboring communities. Of particular interest are projects which link geographically disparate national forest communities in the 32 state eastern hardwood region (for example, linking a community in Wisconsin that has a natural resource problem with a community in Georgia that has a solution).
San Diego--Global warming is changing fire behavior, creating longer fire seasons, and causing more frequent, large-scale, high-severity wildfires that threaten homes and communities, according to sponsors of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress to be held in San Diego on November 13–17, 2006.
By S. Heather Duncan - hduncan@macontel.com Georgia's owners of forest land have long argued that they somehow should get credit for the public service their trees provide: Cleaning the air by absorbing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Now the state of Georgia is helping create a market for this invisible commodity. Tree growers and farmers could receive payments for storing carbon to reduce global warming.
Rockville, MD – The Forest Resources Association has launched an on-line service to connect employers and job seekers in industrial forestry and wood supply, as well as in relevant association and academic sectors.
A new reference book entitled Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Conservation and Management provides information, strategies, and tools to enhance natural resource management, planning, and policymaking at the wildland-urban interface.
