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U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
A report by the Blue Ribbon Commission on Forest and Forest Products Research and Development in the U.S. in the 21st Century (BRC), released by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), calls for changes in the way forest and forest products research is addressed.
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World Forest Institute - International Fellowship Program
The award-winning WFI Fellowship Program brings natural resource professionals from around the world to our World Forestry Center headquarters in Portland, Oregon. The Fellowship is a six-month professional development program designed to help you take your career to the next level. You will join a global cohort of professionals in weekly study tours around the Pacific Northwest learning how natural resources are managed in this part of the world. You will conduct interviews with experts in your field of study and visit people and places that will advance your knowledge and skills. Fellows return home with new ideas and new motivation to create change in their home countries.
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Reuters
Tropical forests emit more carbon each year than all of the cars and trucks in the United States, scientists said on Thursday, calling for greater efforts to stem forest loss and damage. Almost 70 percent of tropical forest emissions are caused by degradation, a study in the journal Science said, measuring the less visible form of damage for the first time along with deforestation which has long been recognized as problematic.
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Natural Resources Canada
Fire, insects and disease constantly affect Canada's forests. They renew whole forest landscapes and shape forest composition, structure and habitat diversity over time. These natural disturbances — and others such as drought, floods and wind storms — vary in severity, extent and frequency, and their relative importance varies from region to region and over time. The result is that Canada's forests are all part of a dynamic landscape, one that has always been in a constant state of change.
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KOZL-TV
Some college students in Maine are stepping outside their classrooms and back into the woods. Following the footsteps of the forest workers before them, they're among a new wave of loggers, who are trading in axes for high tech machines. In East Millinocket, Maine, industry leaders hope these graduates can return the logging industry to its glory days.
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U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Enviva Holdings, LP has announced a $45,000 grant to support African-American land retention and healthy forests in northeastern North Carolina. The grant to the Sustainable Forestry Program of the Roanoke Center — a nonprofit affiliate of the Roanoke Electric Cooperative headquartered in Ahoskie, North Carolina — deepens the existing partnership between Enviva, the Roanoke Center and the U. S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. That program serves forest owners in seven counties in the Cooperative's service region and near two of Enviva's wood pellet facilities.
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The Western Star
Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to see several wood pellet production operations starting up over the next year. The products produced will roll out into what has become an exploding market space - currently straining with a lack of supply. The Pellet Fuels Institute, a nonprofit association for the North American pellet industry, lists 10 producers for certified pellet fuel in Canada. Of those, only two are located in the Atlantic provinces: Marwood Ltd. of Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Shaw Resources of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
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