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Friday, April 19, 2013
When drought hits, trees can suffer—a process that makes sounds. Now, scientists may have found the key to understanding these cries for help.
A team of scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees. Because trees also make noises that aren't related to drought impacts,...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Officials from the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) and Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food (DAMF) have confirmed that the emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive beetle that attacks and kills ash trees, is in New Hampshire. A suspect tree was spotted in Concord on March 28....
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
There are two sides to every story. This is precisely the point the aptly named non-profit organization Two Sides set out to make when it challenged the Paperless2013 campaign. The initiative, supported by big names like Google and Fujitsu, encouraged consumers to make the switch from paper to electronic communication this...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
After more than 20 years of research, David Nowak, who heads USFS’s Northeastern research unit, thinks he knows. He’s leading an effort to standardize tree valuation. The U.S. Forest Service’s i-Tree platform calculates a city’s "leaf surface area," and gives trees an economic value, from the environmental services they...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
New research conducted by North Carolina State University provides the first evidence that heat can be a key driver of pest outbreaks on urban trees. Since urban warming is similar in magnitude to global warming predicted in the next 50 years, pest abundance on city trees may foreshadow widespread outbreaks as natural...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Wildfires in the U.S. will be at least twice as destructive by 2050, burning around 20 million acres nationwide each year, according to a federal report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientists found regions such as western Colorado — which already experienced its most destructive wildfire in history last...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Researchers say growing trees on formerly non-forested land can accumulate soil carbon that helps offset carbon emissions and climate change. In most forests, the amount of carbon held in soils is substantially greater than the amount contained in the trees themselves.
University of Michigan ecologist Luke Nave and his...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Woody Biomass Joint Venture is a partnership between the USDA Forest Service and US Endowment for Forestry and Communities, that began working in 2010 to establish a US/Canadian comprehensive wood-to-energy database. The searchable database open to anyone with interest in the state of wood to energy conversion at a...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Forest Service has announced the topic of its next webinar in the Planning for Growth and Open Space Conservation series - Session #13: City and County Open Space Programs.
This webinar discusses growth and open space conservation planning for cities and counties. The first presentation will highlight the Trust for...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Last week, NASF submitted comments to the USDA regarding their efforts to adapt to a changing climate as laid out in its 2012 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan. The comments advanced the concepts approved by NASF as part of the policy statement, NASF Adaptation and Mitigation: Concepts for Forest-Climate Adaptation...
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