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The Herald
Twenty-four African countries on Monday launched a new drive to enhance efforts to restore forests in the Eastern and Southern Africa regions. The Landscape Restoration Hub for the Eastern and Southern Africa countries was launched in Kigali on the occasion of International Forest Day. The hub will specifically be looking at ways to provide technical support, funding and incentives to forest restoration programs in more than 24 countries of the region, Charles Karangwa, the hub coordinator, explained.
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Woodworking Network
Sharp reductions of sawlog prices in Russia, Brazil, Central Europe and Western Canada in 2015 due to weaker lumber demand and currencies reduced trade of logs, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. European sawlog prices have fallen faster than prices in most other regions.
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KGWN-TV
The Cheyenne (Wyoming) Finance Committee recommended on Monday an additional 10 trees for removal for the cemetery tree removal project to be completed by April 15. Cheyenne City Council will decide whether to approve next Monday. "We recently approached the mayor about getting some funding to do a tree removal project at the cemetery." said Mark Ellison of the Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division.
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Business in Vancouver
An explosive outbreak of spruce beetles in northern British Columbia forests is wreaking havoc on one of the key timber species remaining in the wake of the mountain pine beetle disaster. A recent provincial survey of spruce stands in the Omineca region north of Prince George shows spruce beetle populations have mushroomed from 2013, when they covered 76 square kilometers of timber, to 1,560 square kilometers today. That 20-fold increase has set off alarm bells for both the government and the forest industry.
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The Baltic Course
Estonian enterprises exported 15.8 million euros worth of wood pellets in January 2016, which is 87.2 percent more than during the same month a year earlier, while overall exports of wood products declined by 2.1 percent, according to data from Statistics Estonia.
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Independent.ie
It is essential to do your homework carefully when considering forestry. Forestry is a one way street. Prior to committing yourself, you need to check out all the pros and cons and see if a forest enterprise is for you. It is a great alternative farm enterprise: It definitely will suit some, but it won't suit all.
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Biomass Magazine
A nonprofit organization is expanding a program that helps Vermonters switch to high-efficiency wood pellet boilers to provide heat for homes, businesses and other properties in the Northeast Kingdom. Homeowners are eligible for $1,000 to $5,000 incentives based on a sliding income scale. Owners of nonresidential buildings — including businesses, nonprofits and municipalities — are eligible for a $10,000 subsidy. These incentives are in addition to rebates currently available from Efficiency Vermont and the Clean Energy Development Fund.
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The Virginian-Pilot
It's been about 50 years since he attended Forestry Camp as a teen, and southern Suffolk (Virginia) resident Carey Copeland admits some of the details are vague now. But one impression stands perfectly clear. A high-schooler when he attended the camp, Copeland’s professional interests were just beginning to evolve. He would go on to study forestry at North Carolina State University and, from there, landed a job with a local timber company and, later, the Farm Bureau.
Copeland's continued interest in forestry and environmental concerns landed him on the board of the state Peanut Soil and Water Conservation District Soil in 1978, a voluntary position he's held into retirement. Could this lifetime of forestry-related interest have begun with a spark ignited during Copeland's stay at summer camp in the mid-1960s?
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Public Finance International
Investments to make Kenya's forestry sector more efficient could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 27 percent over 2010 levels and bring economic benefits of $188 million per year, the United Nations and Kenyan government have found.
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Woodworking Network
According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, these are the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of work sites by federal OSHA. OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards so they can take steps to find and fix recognized hazards addressed in these and other standards before OSHA shows up. Far too many preventable injuries and illnesses occur in the workplace.
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