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| Saturday, July 9, 2016 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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| Be confident that what you do in your forest will improve it's health and sustainability for future generations. Become a Tree Farmer! |
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What's in your Woods?Be a winner in the Wisest Woodcutter contest by choosing the most correct answers in "Whats in your Woods?" over the next year. See details.
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Save This Date!August 4, 2016 |
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Since 2005, eighty-five percent of the spruce forests in the Rio Grande Basin have been infested with spruce beetles. To- day, an estimated 500,000 acres of standing dead trees create a wildfire and travel corridor safety hazard. Forest and watershed health could be improved by removing these dead trees and thinning non-spruce stands. However, removal and thinning are costly activities...
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Serious about addressing climate change? Build with woodcontributed by Bruce Benninghoff, Consulting Forester
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A recent study by a team of scientists from Yale University and the University of Washington estimated that global CO2 pollution could be reduced by between 14% to 31% by using wood in place of steel and concrete. Clearly, it’s a massive opportunity.
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Saving Ute Prayer Treescontributed by
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John Anderson is giving a talk on Ute Prayer Trees on July 31, 2016 at the Perry Park Country Club. He would like to attract an audience of folks who are planning to do fire mitigation or other forest management operations. If they know what to look for and appreciate what they may have, hopefully they will save them.
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What Could We Build With Extra-Strong, See-Through Wood?contributed by
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Scientists in Sweden came up with a hybrid that’s considerably stronger than acrylic and lets in far more light than normal wood
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Forest Fires Can Heat Up the Whole Planet
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A monster forest fire that began in early May is still burning in Canada’s vast, isolated north woods. That may seem of little consequence to anyone other than the 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray forced to flee as the blaze swept into the northern Alberta city. Yet large fires like these matter immensely to the rest of the planet.
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Advice from Will Rogerscontributed by |
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
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