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11.24.2009

An innovative conference entitled “New Strategies for Urban Natural Resources: Integrating Wildlife, Fisheries, Forestry and Planning” is being planned in Chicago for May 2007.

11.24.2009

RALEIGH, NC (5 October 2005) - The North Carolina Woodland Owners Association (NCWOA) is a newly-formed organization dedicated to advancing the interests of private landowners within our state. The NCWOA affirms the private property rights of landowners including their right to manage and harvest their woodlands in an economically, ecologically and socially responsible manner. To that end, the NCWOA vigorously encourages the practice of forestry as a means of helping landowners realize greater income, more wildlife, cleaner water, fewer wildfires and healthier forests.

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

These “lessons learned” regarding communicating to the general public about wildlife are drawn from both qualitative and quantitative research conducted on behalf of The International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and The Nature Conservancy by our two firms in 2005. The research included a 1,000-person nationwide voter survey, as well as a series of six in-depth focus groups with voters in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Arizona.

11.24.2009

ITHACA---Private landowners in the Northeastern U.S.-- who collectively own nearly 70 percent of the region's 170 million acres of forestland--hold the key to providing healthy forests for generations to come. A new book, Forest Resource Management: A Landowner's Guide to Getting Started, NRAES-170 ($18.75 plus S&H/sales tax; 84 pages; March 2006) provides forestland owners the information they need to make sound management decisions and realize their full potential as stewards of their land. This book has been named the 2006 Book of the Year by the National Woodland Owners Association (NWOA).

11.24.2009

Farmers cannot pull land out of their Conservation Reserve Programcontracts without penalty, the Bush administration has decided, easingenvironmentalists' concerns about millions of acres being withdrawn toplant corn for a growing ethanol industry.

11.24.2009

Titled "The Fire in the East", this article by Extension Forester, David B. Kittredge raises an excellent point about sprawl in the Eastern United States.

11.24.2009

DES MOINES, June 8, 2006-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today released a conservation program analysis paper authored by USDA economists. This is the second in a series of papers intended to provide factual information about specific topics and continue the national discussion about policy alternatives in preparation for the 2007 Farm Bill. Johanns discussed the paper today at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. Johanns also announced the next subject for analysis will be rural development.

11.24.2009

WASHINGTON, MARCH 13, 2007-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced more than $589,000 in federal cost-share grants to eight organizations with urban and community forestry projects nationwide. The approximately $589,000 in funds will be matched by recipient organizations that will contribute an additional $629,000.

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.

 
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