It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
March 1, 2013 at 2:00 pm by Amanda Cooke
Word of the week: sequestration.
Here's your tree news from around the world this week:
- Why family forest owners should be concerned about sequestration [AFF Blog]
- While we're at it: Read about carbon sequestration and sustainable forestry. This type of sequestration is more hope-inducing [U.S. Forest Service]
- Even ten years after wildfire, numbers of the most vulnerable Amazon bird species still haven't returned to normal levels, say scientists [Natural Environment Research Council]
- Exporting charcoal is will accelerate the deforestation of Jamaica, according to scientists with the IUCN Species Survival Commission [The Jamaica Gleaner]
- What do a 13-mile bike ride, 5-mile run, 2-mile cross-country ski, and 1-mile snowshoe trek have to do with Cibola National Forest? [USDA Blog]
- Here are photos of amazing tree sculptures carved into stumps of Knaresborough, England [Mother Nature Network]
- Chinese officials have promised to improve air quality by planting more vegetation--the goal is that 40 percent of Beijing's land area will be covered by forests by the end of this year [This is Beijing]
- A Welsh charity saves an area of rainforest the size of Wales [The UK Guardian]
- As my homestate continues to deal with Sandy's pressing human needs, New Jersey forestry experts are finding another layer of storm damage--the dwindling number of cedar stands [The Philadelphia Inquirer, h/t to Week in Trees reader and certified forester Bob Williams]
- More Sandy news from the great state of NJ: 766 acres of old-growth tropical rainforest needed to be cut down to provide materials to rebuild the storm-damaged boardwalk in the shore town of Avon. Yikes. [The Associated Press, h/t to my mom]
- 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs and 11,000 plants are being planted on two high rises in Milan [Der Spiegel, h/t to AFF Pres. Tom Martin]
- The number of jobs in the forestry industry of Tasmania, Australia's island state, were halved between 2006 and 2011 [Invest in Australia]
- Sustaining forests in the time of climate change: Watch video highlights from the 2013 Pinchot Distinguished Lecture with U.S Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell [Pinchot Institute for Conservation]
- AFF's Bettina Ring is right at home in the woods [Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment]
- How to create a public forester profile on My Land Plan [AFF Blog]
AFF is planning an "Earth Month" staff day of service. We're soliciting on-the-ground activity ideas that our office can participate in, together. What would you like to see us take part in? Vote on Facebook!
It seems I must regularly request to be replaced on the list.
Thanks,
Joseph Ogonek