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Missoula Current
Fire suppression efforts over the past 118 years have left forests across the Northern Rockies thick and overgrown, leading to repeated large-scale incidents that were once considered rare, several industry experts said on Tuesday.
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FPS
Forest Product Society Conferences are a great way to gain knowledge and connections in today's industry. They provide high-quality presentations from forest industry experts. Did you know presentations from all recent conference are available to FPS members at no charge? This is a tremendous member benefit. Some of the previous conferences include Advancements in Fiber-Polymer Composites, International Conference on Wood Adhesives, 20th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, and 71st FPS International Convention.
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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.
Silver City Daily Press
A new group has formed to address possible progress for watershed and forest restoration and the private industries tied to those projects. Two southwest New Mexico representatives gathered a diverse pool of stakeholders — environmentalists, government entities, contractors and even clergy — to begin discussions to that end.
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Treesource
On an average timber harvest in New Hampshire and the rest of the Northeast, easily 70 to 80 percent of the timber standing is comprised of low-quality trees. Harvesting the low-grade timber improves the remaining forest — the forest management goal for just about every forest owner. The low-grade wood comes from the top sections of trees that have a sawlog in the bottom. It also comes from other trees that are low-quality from top to bottom.
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Mountain News
An additional 27 million trees have died throughout California over the past year, bringing the total number to "a staggering 129 million dead trees" on 8.9 million acres, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced in a joint statement with Cal Fire. The trees, which have died due to drought and bark beetles, continue to pose a hazard to people and critical infrastructure.
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Dovetail Partners, Inc.
Tropical timbers are valuable in many applications, which is why they have been traded internationally for centuries. Egyptian craftsmen imported tropical woods before 3000 BC (Wikipedia, 2017). Like temperate forests, tropical forests can be managed sustainably to produce a continuous array of wood and nonwood goods and services. But they are not universally managed sustainably, and the majority of the world's deforestation occurs between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Woodworking Network
A small town in Quebec has swapped out salt for environmentally-friendly wood chips for use on icy roads. The process of making and spreading the wood chips, which are coated with magnesium chloride — allowing the chips to better adhere to snow and ice — was brought to Rosemere from Switzerland by the town's public works manager who thought the process something worth trying, says Westram.
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Yale Climate Connections
Canada's vast conifer forests are being destroyed by tiny beetles that are on the move. Mountain pine beetles are native to western North America, but as the climate warms, the beetle's range is expanding.
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