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Source: Linkedin By: Wendy Farrand No! I am not talking about your kitchen or bathroom sink, I am talking about your carbon sink. Two of the largest carbon sinks on the planet are the oceans and the forest. They suck up carbon out of the air to help fight pollution...

Source: Think Progress Firefighters in California continue to battle the Soberanes Fire near Big Sur, which recently became the most expensive wildfire in United States history. The blaze, which has been burning for almost two months, has cost $208.4 million to fight...

Source: Science Magazine By: Warren Cornwall A Douglas fir tree is a marvel of natural engineering. The trunk, made mostly of slender dead cells each a few millimeters long, can reach heights of 100 meters. It's supple enough to sway in windstorms without snapping,...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle PONDEROSA BASIN, Mariposa County — When Ursula Rowe returned to her mountain home after a hip replacement a few months back, the landscape had changed. Dozens of towering pine trees had browned up and died on her once-verdant plot of...

Source: KQED Science Wildfires and Tree-Killing Beetles So far this year 4,636 wildfires in California have burned more than 200,000 acres. That’s more fires than this time last year and more fires than the five-year average. In fact, in the last few decades, the...

Source: The Forest Blog It’s summertime or the tail end of it at least.  Fires are still an issue for some communities, while others move towards the cool fall nights and rainfall.  We had another season of massive wildfires. Fortunately, the season was much better...

Source: Evergreen Magazine What role does thinning in overstocked and diseased forests play here? “If we use insect and disease attacks as indicators of genetic simplicity, and resilience to these pests as indicators of genetic robustness, we can use harvesting to...

Source: Healthy Forests The U.S. Congress is working out differences between House and Senate versions of a comprehensive energy bill. There is one key difference between the bills: The House included a comprehensive wildfire funding and forest management reform...

Source: RETHINK WOOD - BY ROXANNE WARD / DAVE PATTERSON The Environmental Impact of Using Wood As green building has evolved beyond its initial emphasis on energy efficiency, greater attention has been given to the choice of structural materials and the degree to...

Source: Forest 2 Market Measuring Forest Sustainability The biological sustainability of a forest can accurately be measured via two primary methods. The first method seeks to measure the volume of forest inventory; analyzing inventory changes over time is an...

Source: Great Falls Tribune Montana's Natural Resource Industry Faces.Challenges The year 2016 has unfolded as an extremely challenging one for Montana’s natural resource industries. Whether talking about challenges facing timber, how the situation in Colstrip and...

Source: Flathead Beacon Governor announces initiative focused on improving forest management BY DILLON TABISH SEELEY LAKE — Days before the final logs rolled through the Weyerhaeuser Company’s plywood plant and lumber mill in Columbia Falls, the pending closure cast a...

Source: The Forest Blog By Russ Vaagen The current trajectory of our forests isn’t the beautiful, healthy evergreen forests most people think.  Our National Forests are dying and burning at an alarming rate.  Regardless if you believe in climate change or if it’s...