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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

A note to our Tree Farmers: Tomorrow is the last day to submit your photographs to one of two categories in the 2013 photo contest sponsored by STIHL! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Free the Trees!

AFF has kicked off its Free the Trees campaign to help keep our woods bug, weed, and disease-free. To show your support, please sign our petition! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy Arbor Day! Here's your tree news from around the world:

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Deforestation is the theme of this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's International Women's Day: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Word of the week: sequestration. 

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From wood churches to a wood Wal-Marts, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We hope everyone affected by winter storm Nemo stays safe! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Today I celebrate two years with AFF, a top-rated forest conservation nonprofit and a very special place to work. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week, including Canada's botanical boo-boo.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Frog and Tree News

Here's your frog and tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Today marks what would be Aldo Leopold’s 125^th birthday. Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, was an ecological restoration visionary. In honor of Leopold's life and legacy, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about how North Korea fuels its military trucks with trees, fishermen turn Christmas trees into salmon habitat, and more forest-related news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy winter solstice! Today is the day when our sun appears to make its lowest, quickest trek across the sky, resulting in the shortest day of 2012 and the official start of winter. Here's your tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

It's all about the pine in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Your tree news from around the world this week is all about funky fungi.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Conservation crowd-sourcing, leaf litter, and a mountain gorilla comeback--here's your tree news from around the world this week!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Forest news this week comes out of Australia, Canada, Kenya, Norway, and Scotland. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week, with some news about the effects of Hurricane Sandy on trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

All you East Coasters, stay safe this weekend: Visit the National Hurricane Center for Hurricane Sandy updates. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Highlights from this week: money, money, money!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

What do 97%, 66%, 60%, and 15% have in common? Your week in trees!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Water is a highlight in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Highlights from this week's tree news include time travel and space travel. Here's your tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We went all-American this week. Enjoy your trees news from around the country.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Fruit and nuts are the highlights of this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week: dogs sniff out ash borers, lions wander into Ethiopia's mountain forests for the first time, and wildlife species in the Korean demilitarized zone are under threat.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Picky pandas, Boo Boo Bear, Mars, and mules are just a few of the topics covered in this week's edition. We hope you have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend! 

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Forest fragmentation, the American chestnut, megafires, and DNA timber testing make an appearance this week. Enjoy!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This edition features wildfire and wildlife articles, with news from Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, and my exotic home turf of North Jersey.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Stumbling upon news about frogs, birds, or trees really makes my day. Included here is news about the latter two (we'll get to frogs in another post). Also, Smokey Bear turned 68 this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In the spirit of the Olympics, this post takes us on a trip around the world from the Kenai Peninsula to the rainforests of Guyana and back in time to ancient Antarctica.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about chronosequence, malacology, and smartphone technology.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about northern white cedar, black palm, Bornean rainforests, wildfire, drought, and recovery.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

White oak, silver nanoparticles, and rainbow eucalyptus are just three highlights from this week's colorful edition.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Grass, brush, oak, juniper, lodgepole and piñon pine, and other species continue to burn in record-breaking U.S. wildfires. The causes of these disasters range from beetle infestations coupled with lightning strikes, to human carelessness or arson. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Well hello, summer! This edition won't help you beat the heat, but some of these stories are mighty cool nonetheless.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news involving acid rain, olive trees, cougars, and that mystery "forest boy" from Berlin.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about AFF's new website MyLandPlan.org, photos from the heart of a wildfire, and World Environment Day.

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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about air pollution, tree banding, creativity's connection to nature, the power of partnerships, and biobased products. Enjoy!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week: This edition includes news about goats, bats, leopards, and stinky beetles. Oh, my!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Louisiana pine snakes, Kenya's flood crisis, a 16-year-old macaw named Bob, and tree pulp all made headlines this week.

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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about the "super moon", ecosystem services, green energy, and a BBQ-loving beetle in this week's edition.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about mangroves and cloud forests, winter's vengeance on trees, and green building markets in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Ambergris, forest bathing, America's pine belt, and the World Horticultural Expo make an appearance in this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Don't forget to sign up for the new quarterly AFF e-newsletter, launched this week! Read tree news from around the world in this Week in Trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

First lady Michelle Obama, Orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh forest, and oaks and elms make an appearance in this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Your tree news from around the world this week includes The Hunger Games, a devastating fire on Mount Kenya, and a handful of enchanting forest photos.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy St. Patty's Day weekend! In honor of all things green, here's your tree news from around the world for the week of March 12.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Hello, weekend! Don't forget to spring your clocks forward 1 hour on Saturday night. No one enjoys losing an hour of sleep, but the beginning of daylight saving time marks the approach of spring. Hooray! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Welcome back, March! Here's your tree news from around the world this week. Read about how the early worm gets the bird, an albino fallow deer, bicycles made out of condemned urban trees, and the 2012 Farm Bill.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Sifrhippus, Tricholaema diademata, and Dendroctonus ponderosae make headlines this week. Here's your tree news from around the world, including news that beetle-killed lodgepole pine needles ignite three times faster than those of living trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Every Friday, we post links to tree news from around the world. This week, an exciting spider monkey discovery was announced, an invasive pest attacked Texas' citrus trees, and Canada and India released news about the state of their forests. Here's this week's edition of Your Week in Trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We explore laurel wilt, the apes of Jakarta, giant ecological kings of the jungle, and caterpillar survival strategy in this Week in Trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week, we said goodbye to Florida's 3,500-year-old bald cypress, The Senator. Here's the story and other tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Looking forward to enjoying the holiday weekend? Me too. There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Join a local tree planting and other service events at mlkday.gov.  In the meantime, here’s your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From the downfall of maple syrup to Yellowstone's gray wolves, here's some tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Frankincense, tree vandalism, and the hydrolic cycle: Here are your tree-related happenings from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From to the world's first vertical forest, to the grinch who stole...half of a blue spruce, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Smokey Bear, bark beetles, Christmas tree tips, and nature photography round out this week in tree news.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In honor of Veterans Day weekend, entrance fees have been waived at all national parks and forests this weekend.  Get outside this weekend - and be sure to thank a service member today. Here's your daily dose of tree news from the around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week In Trees

This week, discover the forest with Cheecker the spokes-squirrel, drool over real maple syrup, and cheer on NYC Marathoners as they run through Central Park, which lost 1,000 trees in last weekend's storm.

It's Friday! Here's Your Week in Trees

Tree news from around the world this week includes motorcycles, fungus, and America's supernatural places. Have a safe and spooktacular Halloween weekend!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Drunk parrots, masterpieces created by trees, the world's top 10 deadliest plants, and the key to boosting property value: here's your tree news for the week of October 10, 2011.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

A breakthrough in pine tree breeding will lead to forests better adapted to climate change and bioenergy use; International Year of the Forests photographer Josh Birnbaum traveled to the site of the Coal Canyon Fire in South Dakota; New to the world of Tree Farming? Welcome to the woods. Here's tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

The passing of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai takes the lead in tree news of the week. This Kenyan leader’s legacy of environmental restoration and economic development will live on.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In celebration of the International Year of Forests, urban forestry, and health through recreation, here's your week in trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Hurricane Irene threats, newly single Derek Jeter, bicycle-eating plants: Here's your roundup of trees in the news for the week of August 22, 2011.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Sweet gum, whitebark pine and lemon trees make an appearance this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Introducing our new blog series! Each Friday, the American Forest Foundation will publish links to important or quirky tree news from around the world inYour Week in Trees.