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The U.S. Forest Service's plan for targeted logging in the Medicine Bow National Forest is a knee-jerk reaction which will do nothing to stop the spread of pine beetles, a Laramie-based conservation group says.
But a timber industry spokesman said logging should be part of a long-term strategy to improve forest health.
Lynn Jungwirth, executive director of the Watershed Research and Training Center in Hayfork, CA, testified before Congress today (March 3, 2009) about the role of federal lands in combating climate change, including the need for more proactive forest management to adapt to and mitigate for climate change and the vital role for rural communities as active participants in these activities.
Calgary-based author Andrew Nikiforuk grew interested in Canada's tar sands when, as he says, 700,000 people poured into Alberta Province to make a killing.
Nikiforuk, a veteran investigative reporter, visited Portland this week to discuss his new book on the costs of wresting oil from vast deposits north of his hometown.
IATPs Karen Hansen-Kuhn was in Panama City last week for negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The state's forest industry is getting a boost from an American dollar that has shrunk drastically in value compared to its Canadian counterpart, economists and industry leaders say.
On Monday, the Carbon Underground, Rodale Institute and Organic Consumers Association held a press conference featuring leading scientists to explain why cutting emissions alone wont solve climate change, and how nurturing healthier soil is an essential p
CAMBRIDGE, England, August 1, 2002 (ENS) - Plants are vanishing so quickly that the Earth is losing one major drug to extinction every two years, according to a new atlas of biodiversity released today by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Orlando Sentinel | Nov. 26, 2001 | Robyn Suriano
More than a dozen antibiotics are proven killers of bacteria that cause lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. For a few scary weeks last year, none could help Jerry Remington.
From the Casper Star-Tribune, By Jeff Gearino
CHEYENNE -- More open spaces and fewer trees can help increase water yields on national forest lands in Wyoming, a U.S. Forest Service official told a state legislative committee Thursday.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is looking for a part-time Interim Finance & Operations Coordinator (16 hours/week), based in our Minneapolis office.
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