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Woodworking Network
The U.S. Forest Service faces mounting challenges: record droughts, longer wildfire seasons and the increasing percentage of the agency's budget spent fighting wildland fires. Yet the pace and scale of forest restoration has grown nine percent since 2011, according to their newly released Restoration Report.
Despite the gains, the agency says at least 65 million National Forest System acres are still in need of restoration work. The rising cost of wildfire suppression, as fires have become more intense and more expensive to fight in recent years, has taken funding away from restoration, watershed and wildlife programs, limiting the Forest Service's ability to do the work that would prevent fires in the first place.
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Triple Pundit
Every year, European countries import millions of tons of wood pellets to burn as fuel. Wood-based biofuel is a rapidly-growing industry driven by the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels. At first glance, wood seems like an excellent energy source: It's less scarce than oil and leaves a smaller carbon footprint than coal. As demand grows, though, we have to carefully consider how this popular fuel is impacting the environment.
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WBOY-TV
The recognizable mascot, "Smokey the Bear" has been telling us the dangers of forest fires for more than 70 years, A sign now overlooks Elkins, West Virginia, to educate its residents when it's safe to burn. The West Virginia Division of Forestry would like to install fire danger signs pictured in counties throughout the state. Elkins Fire Department Chief Tom Meader was approached, and recently accepted the donation of the sign for the City of Elkins by the forestry division. It sits in plain sight for everyone to see what the current danger level is.
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Biomass Magazine
The Wood Pellet Association of Canada conference held last week in Halifax, Nova Scotia, hosted a power panel uniquely composed of both pellet producers and utilities sharing viewpoints on a variety of subjects. This year, Drax Power, Groupe Savoie, Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc., Ontario Power Generation and Scotia Atlantic Biomass were represented on the panel. Discussions ranged from fiber sustainability to the logistics of pellet shipping and the future of federal funding for renewables in the U.K.
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Fosters.com
New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen took a close look Monday morning in Middleton at an environmental success story — a local business that uses waste wood to make energy. The biofuel system Shaheen was touting is the environmental pride of LaValley Middleton Building Supply & Diprizio Pine Sales, Inc. on Kings Highway. It is a wood-fired, steam turbine generator that turns waste wood produced at the facility into electricity.
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AL.com
An entry-level certification program at Auburn University in Montgomery for students seeking careers in forestry is in the works thanks to a new $297,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced the funding last week, saying "timber is big business in Alabama, and the range of jobs involving forestry is immense." More than 122,000 Alabama residents currently work in the forestry industry, according to the state Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
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Woodworking Network
Georgia-Pacific Engineered Lumber and U.S. Lumber have announced that U.S. Lumber will be distributing Georgia-Pacific's engineered lumber products into the Baltimore market. In addition to Baltimore, U.S. Lumber currently supplies the full line of Georgia-Pacific engineered lumber products at their distribution centers in Atlanta, Raleigh, North Carolina, Nashville and Greenville, South Carolina.
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Mongabay
Handing forests over to the people who live in them will help keep sea levels from continuing to rise, and it's a course of action that more than pays for itself, new research shows. Investing in forest rights for indigenous peoples and local communities can yield massive economic benefits in averted carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report the Washington, D.C.-based NGO World Resources Institute (WRI) released this month.
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