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

January 13, 2012 at 3:00 pm by Amanda Cooke

iStock 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:

You may soon have to imagine a Canada without its iconic maple leaf, because the country’s forests are in trouble (CTV)
A 27-story forested apartment building is being built in Milan (The Atlantic)
The “Enchanted Forest of Curiosities” event series promoted a quirky type of gin (Media Post)
Controlled burn efforts by The Nature Conservancy ensure forest health in North Carolina (The News Reporter)
An Old Oak is the poem of the month (Twitter’s MyMNwoods)
The Philippines is deprived of the ecosystem services provided by its forests (Minda News)
The forest sector is absolutely reeling [PDF] from the current economic downturn (Society of American Foresters)
Latin is the lingua franca of botany no more: Botanists can now opt for English to describe a tree’s taxonomy (Nature’s News blog)
Turns out that western bluebirds are great at controlling pests in California’s vineyards (San Francisco Chronicle)
A longtime forester’s new gig takes him from University Extension forestry agent to administrative pastor (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Hey, Congress: Don't ax federal aid to Kentucky's forest owners (Kentucky.com)