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Source - About.com Logging Understanding Sustainable Forests and Forest Certification The words sustainable forest or sustained yield comes to us from foresters of the 18th and 19th century in Europe. At the time, much of Europe was being deforested, and foresters...

Source - Global Post BANGKOK, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in. Vietnam”? If so, there’s a decent chance it was once a tree in the dwindling jungles of Laos, sawn down illegally by a timber syndicate and smuggled into Vietnam for processing. Those are...

Courtesy of: Montana Wood Products Association  Forests Should Be For Everyone The national forests belong to all of our nation’s citizens and are managed by the United States Forest Service. The harvesting of trees to meet citizens’ daily needs is only one of the...

Source - The CS Monitor Worldwide, forests absorb almost 9 billion tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide every year, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Tropical rainforests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but because...

Source - Fox News The Mountain Pine Beetle is tiny, about five millimeters long or about the size of a pencil eraser. But what it lacks in size, it makes up in number. So much so, that it has decimated 40 million acres of forest across the Western United States over...

Source - Horticulture Week Two new moves announced today are expected to attract new investment into UK tree planting projects designed to help combat climate change. Planting new forests and woodland helps to counteract the greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning...

Source - Missoulian HAMILTON - Amy Gannon was rained on the other day just west of Hamilton. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. The moisture falling to the ground was excrement from what the state entomologist described as "massive, massive numbers of insects." The...

Source: 25x'25 Alliance http://www.25x25.org/25x’25 today released a Wood-to-Energy Policy Roadmap concluding that the focused use of woody biomass to help meet America’s energy needs could increase the nation’s forest land base and improve the environmental services...

Source -  Missoulian Foresters from around the world came to western Montana this week to learn how to simplify their timber management. “Other states have very restrictive rules, while Montana adopted a voluntary system that takes advantage of stakeholder interest,”...

Source: Ravalli Republic To parody yet another song: ‘where have all the flower's gone?' by Pete Seeger; ‘where have all the sawmills gone?' Most Montana wood products manufacturers are geared to supply the U.S. housing market. U.S. housing starts were at a seasonally...

Source: Missoula Independent Guarding the Burn - The Great Burn of.1910 Bob Clark first glimpsed it a decade ago from the summit of Grave Peak, in eastern Idaho. Looking north, he saw a stretch of jagged forestland with snowcapped peaks, granite cliffs and grand...

Source: West Yellowstone News It may not make sense to the casual passerby. As a matter of fact, it might even seem wrong. But for many people who have lived in the rural Rocky Mountains, the project work going on north of West Yellowstone in Gallatin National Forest...

Source: Eco-Home In what could be a major step toward quieting the wood-certification dispute, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has proposed giving credit under its LEED program to several currently unrecognized wood-certification groups for at least helping...

Source - Baucus.senate.gov Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus is leading a bipartisan effort to urge the federal government to take steps to use American-grown timber in new construction for government office buildings. In a letter to the head of the General...

Source - Missoulian Julia Altemus took the reins of the Montana Wood Products Association on June 1 with a mission to keep the state's sawmills strong. "For 23 years, it's been all about keeping the industry afloat, keeping them here," Altemus said. After earning a...