It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
Tree news from around the world:
- A breakthrough in pine tree breeding will lead to forests better adapted to climate change and bioenergy use. In Florida alone, the foresty industry has an economic impact of more than $14 billion a year and provided more than 80,000 jobs (University of Florida).
- International Year of the Forests photographer Josh Birnbaum traveled to the site of the Coal Canyon Fire in South Dakota. What followed are some stirring, other-wordly images (Celebrate Forests).
- In celebration of the school’s 375th anniversary, excerpts from famous Harvard University commencement addresses will play on loop from trees around the campus (Harvard Gazette).
- Improved forest management methodology for non-federal American forestlands has been developed and released (American Carbon Registry).
- Check out this stunning handmade bike made out of wood (Fast Company's Co. Design).
- New to the world of Tree Farming? Welcome to the woods—here are 10 tips for new family forest owners (AFF blog).
- Conservation easements are a good investment for forests in the Southern United States (World Resources Institute and AFF).
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