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11.24.2009

We are pleased to be able to send you a notification and call for abstracts of papers or posters for a forthcoming meeting organized by our colleagues at North Carolina State University and the USDA Forest Service. The conference website is www.ncsu.edu/feop/iufro_plantations.

11.24.2009

The USDA Forest Service, Southern Region, will soon advertise a GS-12/13 Rural Forestry Program Manager position located in the Cooperative Forestry Unit, State & Private Forestry, the Regional Office, Region 8, Atlanta, GA. The Forester serves as Rural Forest Program Manager for the Rural Forestry Assistance Program, providing leadership, guidance, assistance, and administrative/technical direction throughout the thirteen-state Forest Service , Region 8 area.

11.24.2009

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.

11.24.2009

Research Institutions, Government, Environmental Experts and Leading Non-profit and For-profit Corporations Launch Effort to Determine Role of Forest Biotechnology in Fight Against Forest Diseases and Pests.

11.24.2009

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2006-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today awarded more than $790,000 in federal cost-share grants to 12 organizations for use with urban and community forestry projects nationwide.

11.24.2009

IUFRO Working Parties 06.06.02 Extension and 6.06.01 Technology Transfer 9th Extension Working Party Symposium First Announcement for "Evolving Challenges and Changing Expectations for Forestry Extension and Technology Transfer: Meeting needs of people and forests around the globe".

11.24.2009

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).

11.24.2009

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.

11.24.2009

An unsustainable forest harvesting practice, diameter-limit cutting, has been recognized in several scientific studies for its exploitive effects on forest growth and productivity. Join Dr. Ralph Nyland, Distinguished Service Professor of Silviculture at SUNY College of Environment Science and Forestry, on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 for a webinar on “Diameter-limit Cutting and Exploitation.”

11.24.2009

The Society of American Foresters (SAF) testified today before the House Agriculture Committee in support of continuing the Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP), a program designed to help family forestland owners manage their forests.

 
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