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Smithsonian
Before the early 20th century, longleaf pine forests were ubiquitous to the southern coastal plains, encompassing approximately 90 million acres of land. But years of deforestation by the logging and farming industries took its toll on the forested ecosystem, and today, only 3 percent remains. In his forthcoming book, photographer Chuck Hemard delves deep into what remains of the longleaf pine forests of his youth.
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FPS
The 2018 Forest Product Society (FPS) Annual Excellence Award nomination deadline is approaching. Nominate colleagues for the three excellence awards which will be presented at the Forest Products Society's 72nd International Convention June 12-14 in Madison, Wisconsin:
For more information, see FPS Awards on the FPS website.
FPS
Prior to the Forest Products Society's 72nd International Convention, plan to attend the Introduction to Wood Short Course covering the basics of wood science from the field's leading professors.
The course will be held at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, June 11, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and includes a tour. After the course, attendees can return to the Monona Terrace for the International Convention keynote address and welcome reception. This course is ideal for industry professionals without a formal degree in wood science.
For more information, visit the Short Course website.
Arizona Daily Sun
When Arizona utility regulators held a workshop last month about increasing the use of forest biomass for power, one topic did not make it into the discussion: The emissions produced from burning small trees, branches and treetops hauled from Arizona's forests.
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Woodworking Network
A total of 700,000 acres of Montana national forests burned in this summer's wildfires. The Montana Wood Products Association (MWPA) is planning to salvage about 30,000 of those acres, MWPA's executive director Julia Altemus told hundreds of people Tuesday. The Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce event "Rising From the Ashes" was packed with people there to learn about the impact of 2017's fires and how to prevent similar destruction in the future.
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Woodworking Network
Canada is in the appeals stage of its softwood lumber dispute after the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed final duties earlier this month. Despite duties, with record-high lumber prices and urgent demand from U.S. builders, Canadian lumber firms haven't had to lay off staff or cut production at all.
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Treesource
For years, high energy prices were the driving force behind adoption of residential pellets stoves, spurring investment in wood pellet manufacturing and, concurrently, leading to the installation of hundreds of commercial wood-fired heating systems across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
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Mongabay
As big carbon storehouses, forests have the power to influence the climate. So much so that the protection and expansion of forests is a key part of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to lower greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of global warming. A new study, published last week in Nature Communications, finds forests may have an even bigger cooling effect on climate than we thought. And that without them, the world may be heating up more quickly than expected.
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland via R&D Magazine
As part of an international consortium, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing new solutions for the responsible and sustainable use of the resources of agriculture, forestry and fishery. The main goal is to use big data particularly in the raw material production for the bioeconomy industry to produce food, energy and biomaterials. In forestry, MHG Systems leads pilots that develop services enabled by forest data.
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Florida State University via ScienceDaily
New research from a Florida State University scientist has revealed a surprising relationship between surging atmospheric carbon dioxide and flower blooms in a remote tropical forest. FSU researchers studying the rich tropical forests of Panama's Barro Colorado Island found that climbing rates of carbon dioxide have set the stage for a multidecade increase in overall flower production.
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DnG24
The Galloway Forest Park, which covers more than 350 square miles, is the subject of a new six-episode observational documentary. A team from independent production company Tern TV spent six months filming in the region — not only focusing on the forest but the wider timber industry. Narrated by Scottish BAFTA-winning actor Mark Bonnar and called "The Forest," the program's cameras follow people living and working in and around the park.
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CBC News
The outbreak of spruce beetle infestation in north-central B.C. rose to record-breaking levels in 2017, and the latest government data shows no sign of it slowing down. Aerial surveys revealed 340,000 hectares of forest are now impacted by the beetle — more than 45 times the pre-outbreak levels of 7,653 hectares recorded in 2013.
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