It's Friday! Here's Your Week in Trees
October 28, 2011 at 5:47 pm by Amanda Cooke
Here’s some tree news from around the world this week. Have a safe and spooktacular Halloween weekend!
- Boo! Take a Halloween trip to some of America's most supernatural natural areas and paranormal parks (Discovery News).
- Eastern forests in the United States are listed among nature’s top 10 greatest comebacks of the 20th century (The Nature Conservancy)
- How much wood is in your woods? Here’s a quick and simple method for pine timber volume estimation (U.S. Forest Service’s @InterfaceSouth)
- When thinking about the 2012 Farm Bill, Congress must maintain forest conservation programs (Statesman Journal opinion article by Tree Farmer and AFF chairman Clint Bentz)
- Seiridium, a fungus that has killed off cypress trees around the world, is now known to have originated in California. The disease is on the attack on all six continents where trees grow (New York Times)
- Motorcycles and pine beetles have something in common (Black Hills Pioneer)
- Pennsylvania’s Women and their Woods program seeks to educate female forest owners (Essential Public Radio; hat tip to National Association of State Foresters)
Photo by Flickr’s dchrisoh
