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National Forest Foundation
On Earth Day, April 22, the National Forest Foundation (NFF) launched an ambitious campaign to plant 50 million trees on America’s National Forests. The NFF initiated this effort to address the increasing reforestation needs on our National Forests. Many Americans are unaware that an estimated 1 million acres of National Forests need reforestation. Every year, wildfire, insects and disease take their toll on these treasured public lands. The campaign calls attention to this issue and invites Americans to make a difference.
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FPS
You can save on your registration for the 72nd FPS International Convention in Madison, Wisconsin, if you register by Thursday, May 10. The dynamic program will focus on housing trends, the emerging forest bioeconomy, education and a strong program of research papers.
The keynote address by Alper Kiziltas, Ph.D., Ford Motor Company, will share how Ford is using cellulose and other biomaterials to make car manufacturing more environmentally friendly and reduce weight. Other speakers include subject matter experts in all critical areas of wood science, as well as over 40 students. See the full program here.
There will also be one-day short course on wood, designed for those who need a practical understanding of wood fundamentals and processing techniques. A discount is offered for those registering for both the convention and course. Learn more.
Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Contact Scott Springmier at Scott@forestprod.org.
The Hill
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared Monday that burning trees is carbon neutral. The announcement, made by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during a meeting with Georgia forestry leaders, signals an administrative policy shift that will treat all burning of biomass as carbon-neutral "when used for energy production at stationary sources," according to an EPA statement.
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American Forest Foundation
The American Forest Foundation and GreenBlue announced the collaboration of a diverse set of partners that will support the development of a new forest sustainability tool that complements forest certification. The digital mapping tool, called Forests in Focus, will assess the sustainability of family-owned forests at the landscape-level, or across a wood supply region, in the United States.
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The Mercury News
Environmentalists who have fought loggers for generations have a surprising new strategy to save California's storied old-growth redwood forests — logging. Save the Redwoods League, a venerable San Francisco organization that has preserved more than 214,000 acres of redwood forest since it was founded in 1918, is embarking on a $5 million plan to thin out 10,000 acres of redwoods, Douglas fir, tan oaks and other trees. The logging will begin at Redwood National Park and Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park near the Oregon border over the next five years. After that, the group plans to thin forests in nearby Jedediah Smith and Prairie Creek Redwoods state parks.
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WoodWorks - Wood Products Council via PRNewswire
WoodWorks – Wood Products Council, in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Lab and Softwood Lumber Board, conducted a second series of blast tests on three existing two-story, single-bay cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures at Tyndall Air Force Base — the same structures involved in a series of initial blast tests performed in 2016. On-site observations were decidedly positive; all structures remained intact under significant explosive loading well beyond their design capacity.
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Bioenergy Insight
The companies plan to developing process technology and supply capacity for the fuel, which can be used in coal-fired power stations with minimal effort. The companies Clean Energy Generation (CEG) and Stork have initiated a partnership between multiple companies to accelerate the development of biocoal technology, which they say significantly reduces carbon emissions and increases the use of biomass. According to the partnership, biocoal can be used in coal-fired power station with no major adjustments.
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All About Birds
If there's been a central, unquestioned tenet of bird conservation in the past quarter-century, it's been the absolute importance of large, intact tracts of mature woodland. As populations of species such as wood thrush, which evolved to nest deep in the interior of mature woodlands, have continued to fall for decades, the remedy for reversing those declines seemed straightforward: To save forest birds, protect and restore the unfragmented forest they need to successfully nest. But a growing number of conservation biologists, citing a rapidly expanding body of science, say the opposite is also true — that logging can be essential to creating bird habitat.
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