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11.24.2009

There are three courses scheduled so far in 2007.

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

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.

11.24.2009

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.

11.24.2009

The 13th Annual Forest Utilization Conference and Equipment Exposition is scheduled for April 30 through May 2, 2008. Forestry on the Grow – Exploring Opportunities & New Technologies for Natural Resources Management & the Wood Products Industry – will be held at Western Hills Guest Ranch in Sequoyah Resort Park near Wagoner, Oklahoma.

11.24.2009

If you missed last year’s Forest Stewardship tour at George Owens Farm, here’s another chance to see one of the most renowned silvopasture operations in the Southeastern U.S. Silvopasture is the intentional integration of intensively managed timber and pastureland for sustained, long-term production from both enterprises. Silvopasture combines trees with forage and livestock production. The trees are managed for high-value saw logs and at the same time provide shade, shelter and forage for livestock, reducing stress and increasing forage production. Properly managed silvopasture can be more productive and often more profitable than either timber or pasture management alone. Come see firsthand how this operation works.

11.24.2009

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2007—Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell today announced the release of the Forest Service’s Open Space Conservation Strategy.

11.24.2009

This conference focuses on how the economic, social and environmental returns from small-scale forestry can be improved. The conference is of relevance to both researchers and policy makers from developed and developing countries. There will be a particular focus on using systems-based approaches for improving returns from small-scale forestry and agroforestry

11.24.2009

The Forest History Society and the Eastern Region (Region 9) of the USDA Forest Service wish to announce the online availablity of more than 6,000 Forest Service photographs – the largest number of searchable historic Forest Service images on the Web. The image database is searchable on the FHS website at: http://fhsnb.oit.duke.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/WebQuery.htm

11.24.2009

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it has partnered with The Conservation Fund to launch an online marketplace to benefit working forests and rural communities.

 
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