It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
November 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm by Amanda Cooke
Conservation crowd-sourcing, leaf litter, and a mountain gorilla comeback--here's your tree news from around the world this week:
- Britain is crowd-sourcing its way to an ash dieback solution [CNN.com]
- Keep Forests Beautiful: Litter! [Bennington Banner]
- The total world population of mountain gorillas is estimated to be 880, which is the highest for several years! [Wildlife Extra]
- Find out why one Canadian mom wants oak trees near her child's school cut down [ABCNews.com]
- More than 1 billion people worldwide depend on forests to sustain their livelihood [Voice of America]
- Why do some trees fall during storms and others don’t? (Scroll down for the interesting parts) [Business Insider]
- The world has lost about 20 percent of its mangrove forests since 1980 [redOrbit.com]
- The cost of post-Sandy tree cleanup in New York City alone has reached nearly $12 million [The New York Times]
- Sandy's devastating tree legacy for homeowners [Mother Nature Network]
- The 80-foot Norway spruce destined for Christmastime in Rockefeller Center survived Sandy, barely [CBSNews.com]
- Sitka, Alaska (population 8,900) is working with a state forester to preserve its trees [Daily Sitka Sentinel, hat tip to the National Association of State Foresters]
- NewPage Corporation increased its supply-chain preference for pulpwood certified by the American Tree Farm System®! [MarketWatch]
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