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Source: USDA Blog Changes in climate and extreme weather are already increasing challenges for forest ecosystems across the world. Many impacts are expected to remain into the future. This means forest managers, conservationists and woodland owners continually need to address climate change to ensure forests can provide a broad array of benefits and services. The […]
Source: The Forest Blog The Forest Service has come up with a system for road density that’s not well thought out. It’s based on the number of miles of roads per square mile of land. One major problem with this is that square miles are flat, the National Forest is not. This means that if […]
Source: Missoulian The University of Montana may soon receive its largest donation ever – a $24 million pledge for the College of Forestry and Conservation and the Global Leadership Initiative – from airline magnate and investor Bill Franke and his family. Both programs would be renamed in honor of the Franke family. “This will become the largest […]
Source: SI News Why Forestry is Important Over the years, Forestry has had to fight back against unreasonable negativity. But for all the naysayers and environmental pessimists, a little research will reveal that modern forestry is about much more than most people realize. At the University of British Columbia (UBC), one of the world’s foremost […]
Source: Portland Press Herald SPRINGVALE — When Saco Valley Land Trust conducted a timber harvest on some of its property in Biddeford last winter, the trust faced an issue unheard-of in logging country – the suburban sensibilities of neighbors. “We got complaints,” said Richard Rhames, a vegetable farmer and president of the land trust. “We […]