Forestry
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The latest US Forest Service monthly newsletter was released this week. It contains links to a number of interesting stories, including a video on how fire benefits forests and how climate change will impact forest hydrology. You can view the newsletter here.
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I’ve seen a few forestry-related resources in my email today that you might find useful or interesting. I may add to the list later today once I get through all my email. Extension.org has a series of educational videos on proper tree planting techniques at https://articles.extension.org/pages/73966/tree-placement-and-planting-video-series. Information on taxes for forest landowners are available at https://timbertax.org/.…
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USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced yesterday that PINEMAP (The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project) has received a 2016 Partnership Award for their Mission Integration of Research, Education and Extension. The PINEMAP team from the University of Florida enabled Southern pine landowners to manage forests for increased carbon sequestration and adopt forest…
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The NC Forest Service and the the NC Wildlife Resources Commission have teamed up with NC State University Extension Forestry, with support from the USDA Forest Service, to offer forest landowners these special 2-hour workshops with dinner. If you have managed forestland in the areas around Holly Shelter Game Lands, Angola Bay and Bear Gardens…
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The Southern Region Extension Forestry folks have posted reminders of two upcoming forestry workshops on their Facebook page today. The Appalachian Wood Energy Innovations conference will be held August 24-26 in Asheville NC. Here’s the description from their event webpage: “Participants attending this event will hear from industry, federal agency and university experts on woody…
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The US Department of Agriculture has an interesting website with ten case studies documenting their plan to help farmers and foresters plan for climate change. Here is some of the information from the web site. You can read more at: https://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=climate-smart.html ——————————————————————————————————- The effort relies on voluntary, incentive-based conservation, forestry, and energy programs to reduce…
