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Eugene Weekly
As fire season heats up in Oregon and across the West, debates over logging and forestry are staying hot in Congress. The House just passed HR 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015, and Congressman Peter DeFazio is one of the Democrats who voted in favor of the bill.
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PRNewswire
The state of Washington's hometown airline is teaming up with the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance to advance the production and use of alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the tree limbs and branches that remain after a forest harvest.
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The Associated Press via KATU-TV
A state board is considering how much to increase the numbers of trees that must be left standing along small and medium streams on private timberlands to shade the water and keep it cool for salmon. A study known as RipStream has shown logging buffers on small and medium-sized streams under the Oregon Forest Practices Act don't do enough to maintain shade, allowing water temperatures to rise more than twice the standard of 0.54 degrees set by the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission.
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Wired
That funny, little buzz you hear in the forest may not just be the hum of summer insects. In the near future, it could be a small fleet of drones, coming to replant and restore forests that have been stripped of trees by industrial-scale deforestation. It's all part of an ambitious plan by BioCarbon Engineering, a U.K.-based startup on a global mission to battle widespread clear-cutting, which strips more than 26 billion trees off the planet each year.
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edie.net
Businesses are making positive steps towards zero-deforestation future, according to the latest "timber scorecard" published by WWF-UK. The construction industry came out particularly strongly for its use of timber resources with Travis Perkins, Mace, Saint-Gobain and Carillion all scoring the maximum "three trees" on the WWF-UK rating. The report analyzed more than 100 businesses to see if they presented transparent information when reporting their use of timber.
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Los Angeles Times
The world's largest air cargo company and the nation's largest domestic carrier may soon fly on biofuel made from dead trees, bark, branches and leaves. The announcement Tuesday by FedEx to buy 3 million gallons of biofuel a year for eight years puts it in the same rarefied air as Southwest Airlines, which last year signed an agreement to buy that amount from Colorado-based Red Rocks Biofuel, starting next year.
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Enviva, a large wood pellet supplier and manufacturer, has expanded their operations to southeastern North Carolina. The industry is fueled by renewable energy subsidies from the European Union. In its quest to reduce carbon emissions, members of the EU are burning wood pellets to generate electricity.
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Union Leader
Beautiful wood furniture is an essential ingredient of a well-decorated home. But for too long, the old rules of how to decorate with wood pieces have hampered our creativity when we are curating our living spaces. Break the rules: Here are three long-held maxims we can tell goodbye.
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