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Woodworking Network
Cross laminated timbers are being used in mass quantities for the tallest wood building so far — a 121-unit, 10-story apartment complex in London. Architects Waugh Thistleton, CLT engineers Ramboll and developer Regal Homes said the most exciting aspect of the project is the sheer size of the structure and its completion without the use of thousands of cubic meters of concrete.
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Biomass Magazine
An annual report recently filed with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network provides an overview of the Russian Federation’s pellet sector. According to the report, Russian wood pellet production and exports are expected to continue to grow, driven primarily by increasing demand from Europe and increasing local consumption.
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Crain's Detroit Business
The Greening of Detroit took more than 120 Detroit high school students, who also are employed by the nonprofit to maintain trees in the city, up north to get some forestry experience beyond the big city. Students traveled to the Grayling area to learn about sustainable forest management. They visited Hartwick Pines State Park, saw an active timber harvest, and visited a lumber mill.
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The News & Observer
For those of us in agriculture and forestry sectors, planning is a long-term proposition. While many focus on planning horizons measured in weeks or fiscal quarters, we're planning for a whole season. And for foresters, it's even longer as they have to plan for a harvest 30 years down the road.
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FG Insight
The forestry sector has called for action to boost the resilience of U.K. woodlands, but farmers have warned any further development must not wipe out productive agricultural land. Organizations from the industry representing landowners, nurseries and forestry professionals recently launched an accord which agreed to supply and grow a greater diversity of tree species as well as considering the provenance of seed.
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Bangor Daily News
Pam Wells owns more than 1,000 acres of land and wants to know the best way to manage her forest. To do so, she enrolled as a student in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine. Already a Maine alum, Wells holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology-English that she earned in 1981 and a master's degree in social work earned in 1991. She now is considering going for a master's degree in forestry.
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IntelligentHQ
One disruptive technology that promises to radically transform the world and bring with it new business possibilities is Nanotechnology. The concept of nanotechnology was first introduced by Richard Feyman in 1959, to name the possibility of manipulating matter on the atomic or molecular scale. Lately, nanotechnology has been subject to a lot of attention due to its advances in its three main areas — nanomaterials, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics — and its massive potential for economic growth.
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A safety management system designed to support forestry workers is "no silver bullet," but it will help to reduce dangers that loggers face in the industry, says its maker. Mike Alexander, director of Fast Harvesting Ltd, figured if dog collars could be used to track hunting dogs, then they could be applied to those on the ground in dense forests.
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The Green Optimistic
A team of scientists from SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science), with an aim to identify the ocean-based algae strains that are highly rich in oil content, conducted a series of experiments on the microalgae strains using a newly devised technique. The study unlocked two marine algal strains, which prove to be ideal sources of biofuels with their dry-weight oil content of more than 50 percent, and high efficiency in converting nutrients.
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