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Leap Year: Cool Things to Do on This Extra Day
Happy leaping February 29!
It's pretty cool that today—a leap day—gives us some extra time to accomplish our goals this year. AFF has some ideas for activities that you can use your leap day time for.
Conservation Creates Jobs in America’s Forests
The 2012 Farm Bill reauthorization process has begun! Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a Farm Bill conservation hearing, which focused on strengthening conservation in the 2012 Farm Bill.
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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
Sifrhippus, Tricholaema diademata, and Dendroctonus ponderosae make headlines this week. Here's your tree news from around the world, including news that beetle-killed lodgepole pine needles ignite three times faster than those of living trees.
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PLT GreenSchools! and U.S. Forest Service: Nurturing Conservation Education
The PLT GreenSchools! program is built on partnerships, and one of our key partners since the program’s beginning in 2009 has been the U.S. Forest Service, which has provided funding and staff expertise every step of the way.
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Jobs Picture in America’s Woodlands: Serious Implications for Forest Health
What does the closing of 1,009 sawmills and the loss of 294,000 full-time jobs mean for the future of the forest products industry? the decline of the forest sector has serious implications for forest health and the future of America’s forests.
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Threatened Forests: Woolly Adelgids Attacking Hemlocks
A silent killer is blazing a trail through the Appalachians, leaving countless dead hemlocks in its wake. The assassin is a tiny invasive insect from Japan, the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA). The Alliance for Saving Threatened Forests (ASTF) aims to develop trees resistant to adelgids and offers a future for hemlocks in natural settings and the nursery/landscape industry.
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Tree Farmer Chuck Leavell Receives Lifetime Achievement Grammy Nod
Tree Farmer and musician Chuck Leavell was included in the 2012 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards! Beyond his recognition as a talented and respected musician, Leavell is hugely involved with tree farming, wildlife, and forest management. Chuck and his wife Rose Lane were selected as the STIHL National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year in 1999, and their incredible conservation work on Charlane Plantation continues to this day.
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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
Every Friday, we post links to tree news from around the world. This week, an exciting spider monkey discovery was announced, an invasive pest attacked Texas' citrus trees, and Canada and India released news about the state of their forests. Here's this week's edition of Your Week in Trees.
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Project Learning Tree Supports "Learning by Doing" with 26 GreenWorks! Grants
AFF recently awarded more than $24,000 in Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! grants to schools and youth organizations in 19 states to help students complete environmental action projects.
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