It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
October 5, 2012 at 4:00 pm by Amanda Cooke
Water is a highlight in this week's tree news from around the world:
- Tree rings from eight cedar trees in one single site in Bolivia have told researchers how much it rained in the entire Amazon basin over the past century. Wow. [ScienceDaily]
- About a third of California's water supply comes from mountain snowpack, and researchers are working to manage area forests to produce more water [Capital Public Radio]
- The American Southwest is headed for a megadrought, likely resulting in a redistribution of piñon, ponderosa pine, and Douglas fir populations [The Santa Fe New Mexican]
- A Wisconsin artist has created dozens of trees sculpted entirely out of wire [Colossal]
- Eating an apple a day might in fact help keep the cardiologist away [@Bittman]
- The Philippines has lost more than half its forest cover in the past century [Mother Nature Network]
- Check out this graph showing where in the world we've seena net gain of forest cover in recent years [The Washington Post]
- Climate change may be the reason Maine's cranberry harvest yield is up this year [Portland Press Herald]
- We're starting to pull the American chestnut back from the brink of extinction, according to one plant pathologist [Nature, hat tip to seyden.net]
- Bill and Betty Potter the Missoula County Land Stewardship Award for conservation practices on their Tree Farm [The Missoulian, hat tip to Tree Farmer Gary Johnson for sharing this article]
- Breaking the LEED certification monopoly will create opportunity for rural Oregon [State. Rep. Bruce Hanna]
- Michigan State University researchers will use a $1.5 million grant to help India sustainably manage its forests [Phys.Org]
- The United States Forest Service partnered with a local chapter of the Oregon Hunters' Association for wildlife habitat restoration projects [USDA Blog]
- The tree disease Chalara fraxinea has already decimated around 90 percent of Denmark's ash population [The Guardian UK]
The American Forest Foundation shares your love for the land! Take a look at AFF's newest Facebook photo album, with some of our favorite nature photos from our personal collections.
