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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Free the Trees!

AFF has kicked off its Free the Trees campaign to help keep our woods bug, weed, and disease-free. To show your support, please sign our petition! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy Arbor Day! Here's your tree news from around the world:

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Deforestation is the theme of this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's International Women's Day: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Word of the week: sequestration. 

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From wood churches to a wood Wal-Marts, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We hope everyone affected by winter storm Nemo stays safe! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Today I celebrate two years with AFF, a top-rated forest conservation nonprofit and a very special place to work. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week, including Canada's botanical boo-boo.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Frog and Tree News

Here's your frog and tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Today marks what would be Aldo Leopold’s 125^th birthday. Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, was an ecological restoration visionary. In honor of Leopold's life and legacy, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about how North Korea fuels its military trucks with trees, fishermen turn Christmas trees into salmon habitat, and more forest-related news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy winter solstice! Today is the day when our sun appears to make its lowest, quickest trek across the sky, resulting in the shortest day of 2012 and the official start of winter. Here's your tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

It's all about the pine in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Your tree news from around the world this week is all about funky fungi.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Conservation crowd-sourcing, leaf litter, and a mountain gorilla comeback--here's your tree news from around the world this week!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Forest news this week comes out of Australia, Canada, Kenya, Norway, and Scotland. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week, with some news about the effects of Hurricane Sandy on trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

All you East Coasters, stay safe this weekend: Visit the National Hurricane Center for Hurricane Sandy updates. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Highlights from this week: money, money, money!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

What do 97%, 66%, 60%, and 15% have in common? Your week in trees!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Water is a highlight in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Highlights from this week's tree news include time travel and space travel. Here's your tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We went all-American this week. Enjoy your trees news from around the country.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Fruit and nuts are the highlights of this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week: dogs sniff out ash borers, lions wander into Ethiopia's mountain forests for the first time, and wildlife species in the Korean demilitarized zone are under threat.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Picky pandas, Boo Boo Bear, Mars, and mules are just a few of the topics covered in this week's edition. We hope you have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend! 

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Forest fragmentation, the American chestnut, megafires, and DNA timber testing make an appearance this week. Enjoy!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This edition features wildfire and wildlife articles, with news from Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, and my exotic home turf of North Jersey.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Stumbling upon news about frogs, birds, or trees really makes my day. Included here is news about the latter two (we'll get to frogs in another post). Also, Smokey Bear turned 68 this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In the spirit of the Olympics, this post takes us on a trip around the world from the Kenai Peninsula to the rainforests of Guyana and back in time to ancient Antarctica.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about chronosequence, malacology, and smartphone technology.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about northern white cedar, black palm, Bornean rainforests, wildfire, drought, and recovery.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

White oak, silver nanoparticles, and rainbow eucalyptus are just three highlights from this week's colorful edition.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Grass, brush, oak, juniper, lodgepole and piñon pine, and other species continue to burn in record-breaking U.S. wildfires. The causes of these disasters range from beetle infestations coupled with lightning strikes, to human carelessness or arson. Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Well hello, summer! This edition won't help you beat the heat, but some of these stories are mighty cool nonetheless.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news involving acid rain, olive trees, cougars, and that mystery "forest boy" from Berlin.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about AFF's new website MyLandPlan.org, photos from the heart of a wildfire, and World Environment Day.

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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week's edition features news about air pollution, tree banding, creativity's connection to nature, the power of partnerships, and biobased products. Enjoy!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Here's your tree news from around the world this week: This edition includes news about goats, bats, leopards, and stinky beetles. Oh, my!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Louisiana pine snakes, Kenya's flood crisis, a 16-year-old macaw named Bob, and tree pulp all made headlines this week.

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It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about the "super moon", ecosystem services, green energy, and a BBQ-loving beetle in this week's edition.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Read about mangroves and cloud forests, winter's vengeance on trees, and green building markets in this week's tree news from around the world.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Ambergris, forest bathing, America's pine belt, and the World Horticultural Expo make an appearance in this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Don't forget to sign up for the new quarterly AFF e-newsletter, launched this week! Read tree news from around the world in this Week in Trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

First lady Michelle Obama, Orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh forest, and oaks and elms make an appearance in this week's post.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Your tree news from around the world this week includes The Hunger Games, a devastating fire on Mount Kenya, and a handful of enchanting forest photos.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Happy St. Patty's Day weekend! In honor of all things green, here's your tree news from around the world for the week of March 12.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Hello, weekend! Don't forget to spring your clocks forward 1 hour on Saturday night. No one enjoys losing an hour of sleep, but the beginning of daylight saving time marks the approach of spring. Hooray! Here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Welcome back, March! Here's your tree news from around the world this week. Read about how the early worm gets the bird, an albino fallow deer, bicycles made out of condemned urban trees, and the 2012 Farm Bill.

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.

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.  In 1999, Chuck and his wife Rose Lane were selected as the National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year, sponsored by STIHL, and their incredible conservation work on Georgia's Charlane Plantation continues to this day.

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.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

We explore laurel wilt, the apes of Jakarta, giant ecological kings of the jungle, and caterpillar survival strategy in this Week in Trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

This week, we said goodbye to Florida's 3,500-year-old bald cypress, The Senator. Here's the story and other tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Looking forward to enjoying the holiday weekend? Me too. There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Join a local tree planting and other service events at mlkday.gov.  In the meantime, here’s your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From the downfall of maple syrup to Yellowstone's gray wolves, here's some tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Frankincense, tree vandalism, and the hydrolic cycle: Here are your tree-related happenings from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

From to the world's first vertical forest, to the grinch who stole...half of a blue spruce, here's your tree news from around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Smokey Bear, bark beetles, Christmas tree tips, and nature photography round out this week in tree news.

Congress Wants to Get Rid of Smokey Bear

Congress wants to eliminate funding for the U.S. Forest Service’s conservation education program, which could mean we say farewell to Smokey Bear.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In honor of Veterans Day weekend, entrance fees have been waived at all national parks and forests this weekend.  Get outside this weekend - and be sure to thank a service member today. Here's your daily dose of tree news from the around the world this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week In Trees

This week, discover the forest with Cheecker the spokes-squirrel, drool over real maple syrup, and cheer on NYC Marathoners as they run through Central Park, which lost 1,000 trees in last weekend's storm.

It's Friday! Here's Your Week in Trees

Tree news from around the world this week includes motorcycles, fungus, and America's supernatural places. Have a safe and spooktacular Halloween weekend!

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Drunk parrots, masterpieces created by trees, the world's top 10 deadliest plants, and the key to boosting property value: here's your tree news for the week of October 10, 2011.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

A breakthrough in pine tree breeding will lead to forests better adapted to climate change and bioenergy use; International Year of the Forests photographer Josh Birnbaum traveled to the site of the Coal Canyon Fire in South Dakota; New to the world of Tree Farming? Welcome to the woods. Here's tree news from around the world this week.

Welcome to the Woods: 10 Tips for New Family Forest Owners

New to the world of Tree Farming? Nationally recognized family forest owners provide input on what they believe to be the top 10 tips new Tree Farmers should consider. Thanks to Tree Farmers Putnam Blodgett, Bob and Jean Cooper, Des and Marilyn Jones, and Doug Stinson for their input.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

The passing of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai takes the lead in tree news of the week. This Kenyan leader’s legacy of environmental restoration and economic development will live on.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

In celebration of the International Year of Forests, urban forestry, and health through recreation, here's your week in trees.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Hurricane Irene threats, newly single Derek Jeter, bicycle-eating plants: Here's your roundup of trees in the news for the week of August 22, 2011.

My Most Memorable Moments: 2011 Tree Farmer Convention

I am grateful that the Albuquerque airport has free Wi-Fi—I couldn’t wait until I was home to upload and share photos from my first National Tree Farmer Convention. Here are links to my most memorable moments from last week’s event in New Mexico.

Forest to Faucet

Did you know the water from your faucet could be naturally filtered by a forest, instead of by a water treatment plant? Forest to Faucet is one of many student activities available in Project Learning Tree (PLT)’s new high school curriculum Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests.  This educational guide teaches students about forest health, fresh water supply, our changing climate, who owns America’s forests, and more.  

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Sweet gum, whitebark pine and lemon trees make an appearance this week.

It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees

Introducing our new blog series! Each Friday, the American Forest Foundation will publish links to important or quirky tree news from around the world inYour Week in Trees.

Spring Creek Greenway Reconnects Houston to Nature

On June 8, Project Learning Tree state and international coordinators headed out on a field trip to Spring Creek Greenway.  Together we narrowly avoided poison ivy on the newer trails, saw wildlife like a wading yellow-crowned night heron, learned about riverside forests in Texas, and gasped when we heard we were just two miles north of Houston's Intercontinental Airport.

“Tree Man” Finds Meaning and Fulfillment in his Kentucky Woods

On June 3, 1796, Andrew Lang, a young merchant from Wakefield, England, purchased 19,425 acres of land in what is now Hart County, Kentucky. Over the years, some of the property passed out of Lang’s immediate family but much of the original tract is still owned by his descendents.  

On July 2, 1963, 167 years after Lang’s original purchase, the Kentucky Division of Forestry mailed a Timber Management Plan to a 16-year-old named Charlie Williams, from which sprouted a passionate, teenaged woodland steward.  Williams is Lang’s great-great-great-great grandson. 

Conservation, Industry Groups Applaud USDA for Green Building Leadership

Wood products are good for jobs, particularly in rural economies, and strong markets for wood products help keep working forests as forests. Secretary Tom Vilsack and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently developed a new green building strategy to promote wood products as an environmentally preferable building material. AFF, along with 40 conservation, landowner and industry partners, want to thank USDA for its continuing leadership on this issue by becoming a cheerleader for wood products.

[Video] Don't Leave Family Forest Owners Out on a Limb

There’s no question that Congress is going to make cuts to programs in the 2012 federal budget, but will they maintain the programs that give Tree Farmers tools needed to keep their land healthy for future generations? Check out this new video.

Celebrating National Garden Month: All About The White House Kitchen Garden

In June 2009, the White House Kitchen Garden celebrated its first harvest—which produced more than 200 pounds of food.

Celebrating National Garden Month: GreenWorks! Students Break Ground in April

The National Gardening Association has declared April to be National Garden Month.  AFF is celebrating with school garden plantings and by blogging about planting project success stories.

Curious about Pollinators, Plants and People? Join Wednesday's Electronic Field Trip

Curious about people and pollination? Join GreenWorks! grant recipients and others for an electronic field trip on Wednesday, April 13.

Sec. Vilsack Boosts Support for Local Programs that Get Youth Outside

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday $1 million in funding to connect youth to the great outdoors, by way of Children's Forest programs and More Kids in the Woods projects.

USDA Green Building Initiative Announced at International Year of Forests Celebration

At the U.S. celebration of the U.N.'s 2011 International Year of Forests, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA's new strategy to promote the use of wood as a green building material.

PLT Announces 2011 Outstanding Educators

Five individuals who use environmental education to spur students’ enthusiasm to learn were named the 2011 National Outstanding Educators by AFF’s Project Learning Tree (PLT) program.

Project Learning Tree Announces 2011 Outstanding Educators

Five individuals who use environmental education to spur students’ enthusiasm to learn were named the 2011 National Outstanding Educators by AFF’s Project Learning Tree (PLT) program.

ATFS Honors Colorado Tree Farmer Wes Rutt

We are pleased to announce that Wes Rutt has been awarded the 2010 National Field Leadership Award for having demonstrated outstanding commitment to education and outreach.

PLT’s GreenSchools! Helps Promote STEM Education in DC, Virginia

Project Learning Tree (PLT) program has helped engage millions of students in environment and STEM education.  In Virginia yesterday, I saw PLT in action when I attended a GreenSchools! program training for local teachers and students. PLT’s GreenSchools! is a program of the American Forest Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service.

Georgia’s Private Forests Provide Services Worth $37 Billion Per Year

Georgia’s private forests provide people with services worth more than $37.6 billion per year, according to a new report made public today in Atlanta. “Quantifying the Value of Non-Timber Ecosystem Services from Georgia’s Private Forests”, supported in part by AFF, was presented to Gov. Nathan Deal at the Georgia State Capitol.