It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
March 15, 2013 at 11:38 am by Amanda Cooke
Here's your tree news from around the world this week:
- Watch 15 months of a forest's life shown in 3-minute time-lapse video [Treehugger, hat tip to Justin Lindenberg]
- How to listen to plants [Mother Nature Network]
- The number of monarch butterflies that completed an annual migration to their winter home in a Mexican forest sank this year to its lowest level in at least two decades [the New York Times]
- China uses 20 million trees each year to feed the country’s disposable chopstick habit [The Washington Post]
- China aims to bring forest coverage to 23%, or 223 million hectares, by 2020 [ShanghaiDaily.com, h/t to Jim Stark]
- How to win the world’s largest scholarship for forestry research [University of British Columbia]
- The bat-killing white-nose syndrome has now spread to 22 states and 5 Canadian provinces over the past seven years.Summit County Voice, h/t to Seyden.net
- A new tool called i-Tree calculates how many trees a city has and puts a dollar amount on how much they're making urban life better [Scientific American]
- "The Forest Service recognizes the need for a strong forest industry to help accomplish forest restoration work," U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said in testimony before a House subcommittee this week [Fire Engineering, h/t to Seyden.net]
- Australia could be fuelling its airplanes with timber harvest debris within three to five years [The Working Forest]
- Speaking of, a new study shows that retaining moderate levels of logging slash helped to both directly and indirectly increase the growth rate of Douglas-fir seedlings replanted after harvest [ScienceDaily]
- Mulling a timber harvest on your land? Call before you cut [Missouri Daily Journal]
- Introducing...the finalists for the 2013 Regional Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year Awards! [American Tree Farm System]
- How to inspire Americans to give [AFF Blog]
