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Biomass Magazine
North American overseas pellet exports increased for the second consecutive quarter in the third quarter of 2015, rising 15 percent from the previous quarter to reach a new record high of just over 1.6 million tons, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. The U.S. South continues to be in expansion mode with additional capacity being added during the fall of 2015.
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Arkansas Online
Forest-restoration projects in Arkansas that are designed to prevent wildfires and to improve wildlife habitat and soil and water health are getting $3.7 million in 2016 from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Robert Bonnie, the USDA's undersecretary of natural resources and environment, was on hand Tuesday at the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts' annual meeting at the Wyndham hotel in North Little Rock, where he announced the funds. A new forest-restoration project in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita national forests is included in the funding.
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The Courier-Journal
The spring forest fire season officially commenced in Kentucky on Monday and will run through April 30. During this time, it is illegal to burn anything within 150 feet of any woodland or brushland between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The statewide burning law is intended to prevent fires by allowing burning only during the time when conditions are less likely to cause the spread of fire.
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Treehugger.com
Which president was a log cabin enthusiast who lived off the land? And which one was inspired on a camping trip to create national parks? Many United States presidents have had close ties to forests. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, responsible for planting billions of trees. Benjamin Harrison started a tradition with the first White House Christmas Tree. And Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, 44 years after Yellowstone Park was designated.
There is much to celebrate when it comes to presidents and trees. This year, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) would like to applaud three U.S. commanders in chief most closely associated with our favorite thing — forests.
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Center for Biological Diversity
More than 110 groups from across the globe joined a declaration today demanding that bioenergy be excluded from the European Union’s next Renewable Energy Directive, or RED. The RED will determine Europe's path forward on meeting its carbon emissions reductions targets following the Paris agreement signed December 2015. Bioenergy already accounts for around two-thirds of energy classed as renewable in the EU, and the EU currently anticipates that industrial bioenergy will continue playing a major part in its renewable energy strategy.
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ForestIndustry.com
The cause for biomass as a carbon-neutral renewable resource has received an important endorsement. Last week, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Angus King (I-Maine) received unanimous consent for their sponsored amendment to the Senate energy bill that affirms the carbon benefits of biomass. The Senate is currently debating a broad energy policy bill, the first in almost a decade, which will have important implications for biomass as an energy source in the future.
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ecoRI News
Rhode Island has a wood problem. Although the state has no wood-burning power plants, it relies heavily on wood power for electricity, specifically for the renewable energy that flows through local electric sockets. The problem is that wood power is considered harmful to the environment, especially for its high levels of carbon dioxide emissions.
One of the state's key alternative energy incentive programs, the Renewable Energy Standard (RES), is largely responsible for Rhode Island’s use of wood power. The RES was designed to stimulate renewable-energy construction in Rhode Island and around New England by requiring that a portion of the electricity delivered by utilities originate from sources such as wind and solar. RES rules also allow for hydropower, landfill gas, food digesters and electricity from wood-burning power plants.
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Naperville Sun via Chicago Tribune
Hikers, cyclists, equestrians and more might greet a summertime visitor to Greene Valley Forest Preserve. But in the winter, only the tracks of cross-country skiers could indicate anyone else has been around in the popular preserve right outside Naperville, Illinois, and a short drive off Interstate 355. In fact, one might observe a larger variety of birds than people.
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The Associated Press via KTHV-TV
Pope County, Arkansas, officials say forestry workers conducting a controlled burn found the body of a man in the area in which they were working. The Pope County Sheriff's Office said Monday that the body was found Sunday evening on Smyrna Road in the Nogo community, north of Hector. Deputies said they do not suspect foul play.
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WJXT-TV
A fireball that blazed across the skies of northern Florida on Jan. 24 caught the attention of The American Meteor Society — and some lucky meteorite hunters. A meteoroid entered the atmosphere at 10:30 a.m. ET, and a combination of friction, pressure and chemical reactions caused gases to heat up and expand, creating a fireball. Most meteoroids that enter the atmosphere disintegrate during the process. Occasionally, the meteoroid is large enough to make it to the surface of the Earth, at which time it is called a meteorite.
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