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Woodworking Network
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is taking grant applications for projects that expand wood products and wood energy markets, especially in areas with high wildfire risk. Applications may be submitted through Jan. 22, 2018. Grants provided through the agency's Wood Innovations program not only help reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health, but also create jobs to promote economic vitality in our communities.
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The Arizona Republic
Overgrown Arizona forests have fueled unprecedented fires, burning bigger and hotter. Thinning trees can reduce fire danger, but such efforts have been slow to produce results so far. The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service announced plans this week to launch a program called Future Forest to search for ways of thinning forests faster and more profitably.
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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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Missoulian
A group of industry analysts finds the U.S. forest products industry has fallen far behind in producing new things out of wood. "Many traditional forest product markets have matured or declined," the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities report stated. "Yet the sector's research and development funding — essential to innovation — has fallen and its R&D capacity has withered."
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Statesman Journal
The new forest science complex going up at Oregon State University will have a unique twist in its design; it will showcase technology largely developed by the school's researchers. The former Peavy Hall was razed to pave way for the new forestry center, which will be largely constructed using cross-laminated timber and mass-plywood panels, innovative products researched and developed at the school.
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EURACTIV
Campaigners have warned about the environmental dangers of bioenergy, saying burning wood is not low-carbon. However, forests can — and must — be managed in a sustainable way that maintains or even increases the carbon stock.
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Bioenergy Insight
The European Pellet Council (EPC) has announced a record year for its wood pellet quality scheme, with over 8.1 million tonnes certified worldwide in 2016. According to a statement, EPC is anticipating 9.2 million tonnes of wood pellets will be certified by the end of 2017.
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The Daily Barometer
Flames engulf the forests that inhabit the state of Oregon as wildfire smoke fills the air and catches the next wind that blows by. Nearby cities are blanketed in a thick haze of smoke and ash. Official firefighters, volunteer responders and wildland fire ecologists all flock to the burns that raze the ground in hopes to extinguish and learn something from them.
From June 2017 to present, wildfires have ravaged the western United States. At least six fires are still burning as of Oct. 2 in the state of Oregon, and this summer resulted in over 330,000 burned acres, according to the official State of Oregon fire information webpage. As the year progresses to shoulder seasons, researchers and advocates look to what made this past summer so intense and what can be done in the next months to help resilience and rehabilitation.
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Biomass Magazine
The Northwestern Ontario Indigenous community of Whitesand First Nation will develop an industrial park to support new biomass and wood processing facilities thanks to a government of Canada investment of $2.81 million and a government of Ontario investment of $949,539.
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