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Mongabay
Evidence continues to mount for the toll climate change is taking on the ecosystems of the United States' national parks and forests from coast to coast. The latest study, published in Global Change Biology by researchers at Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, predicts that warming temperatures across the eastern United States will alter the distribution of a range of tree species, leaving many too vulnerable to adapt to changing conditions.
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FPS
The deadline is approaching to submit paper and poster abstracts for the International Conference on Wood Adhesives, to be held Oct. 25-27 in Atlanta.
Held every four years, it is the premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass. Since 1980, the conference has attracted an international audience including businesses that make and use adhesives, their suppliers, researchers and students.
Topics include:
- Structure and properties
- Bio-based and novel raw materials; adhesive systems; resin chemistry
- Fundamental understanding of wood bonding and adhesive substrate interactions
- Bonding untraditional substrates
- Issues with commercial implementation of new adhesives
- Composites
- Modeling
- New wood-based bonding products
- Impact of regulations and consumer preference
- Engineering wood
- Analytical and testing methodology
- Energy concerns and opportunities
Submission deadline is Saturday, April 1. Click here to submit an abstract.
Confirmed speakers and topics include:
- Venla Hemmilä — Project leader, adhesives, IKEA (Current and Future Adhesive Needs of Wood Based Furniture Industry)
- Dr. Tony Pizzi — Professor, LERMAB, University of Lorraine, Epinal, France (Urea-glyoxal and Melamine-glyoxal Adhesives for Wood panels and Other Applications by Total Elimination of Formaldehyde)
- Professor John A. Nairn — Richardson chair, Oregon State University (Analysis of Adhesive Bonds Under Tension Using Coupled 3D X-ray Computer Tomography and Numerical Modeling)
- Michael J. Birkeland — Senior staff scientist, Solenis (Discovery to Validation: Closing the Gap from Lab to Commercial Reality)
- More speakers and plenary topics to come ...
There are also plenty of sponsorship opportunities available. You may download the sponsorship prospectus here.
This is the 11th in a series organized every four years by the U.S. Forest Service Products Laboratory, the Forest Products Society and the Wood Based Composites Center. For information on the International Conference on Wood Adhesives, visit http://www.forestprod.org/woodadhesives/.
Press-Republican
New York sessions this month in Bellmont and Long Lake explain how up to 10 municipalities and nonprofits can obtain grants to switch to wood pellet heating. Both towns recently installed pellet-heat boilers, and representatives will offer tours of their operations at the sessions to share their results and impressions.
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Bangor Daily News
The plan to rebuild a wood-fueled economy centered in East Millinocket, Maine, has major financial and technological hurdles to clear before it has any chance of helping revitalize communities devastated by the paper industry's decline. Industry experts interviewed last week about EMEP LLC's East Millinocket plan expressed a mix of excitement about the technology and skepticism about the economics of the plan that has, at its heart, a unique and commercially untested process.
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Woodworking Network
Lumber Liquidators debuted a laminate flooring that it says has double the water resistance of existing products. The new Dream Home Ultra X2O Laminate was launched as part of its Spring Flooring Season.
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Stuff
Improving a farm environment by planting a forestry block gives farmers as much satisfaction as lifting the values of their land. But it also required careful planning if landowners are to reap its benefits. That would dictate how the trees are managed, New Zealand Farm Forestry Association Waikato secretary John Simmons told farmers at a Beef+Lamb farm forestry field day in Te Awamutu.
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MetroNews
While the West Virginia governor and the legislature are trading shots over the coming fiscal budget gap, 37 workers from the state Division of Forestry who were laid off during the last budget crisis are still hoping to come back to work. The upcoming fiscal gap is estimated to be almost $500 million. The forestry workers were laid off over a $1.7 shortfall in their own agency's budget that came about largely because of a decrease in timber severance tax money.
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WALB-TV
Assessors from the Georgia Forestry Commission were in Albany on Monday to determine which trees need to be destroyed after the January storms. Urban and Community Forestry Coordinator Susan Granbery said that they mapped out the areas that they'll be addressing. Members of the team will be in Albany for at least the next two days assessing every single tree on the map. Their goal is to help residents in Albany figure out what they are going to do with storm debris.
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Woodworking Network
Satellite data shows a rise in deforestation in Brazilian and Bolivian rainforests, according to Mighty Earth, and environmental watchdog based in Washington, D.C. The land is converted to soy bean farming, mostly used to feed cattle for the fast food hamburger industry, the group says, with agribusiness firms Cargill and Bunge the largest buyers of the farm products.
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Mongabay
Harriet Williams, a grants manager at the JMG Foundation, writes: "With a view to providing a map of forest philanthropy, the Environmental Funders Network's Forest Funders Group — an affinity group for foundations focused on forest conservation — has developed a methodology for describing forest grants by geography, focal issue, and approach. The mapping has been piloted on grants data submitted by five European-based foundations that made 652 grants between them in the study period (2011 to 2015), averaging 3.1 million pounds (roughly $3.78 million) per year. Although this captures just a fraction of the forest grants made worldwide, it yields tantalizing points for reflection."
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