Forests
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Atlas Obscura had an interesting article this week about a tree that is located on subantarctic Campbell Island, a Sitka spruce that is 170 miles from the next nearest tree of any species in the Auckland Islands. It looks more like a bush than a conifer, rumor has it, because some previous inhabitants of the…
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The US Forest Service published a blog post that detailed all of the damage to forests and foresters in Florida after the passage of Hurricane Michael back in October. One of the most interesting quotes in the blog said “It would take 2.4 million logging trucks to remove all of the dead trees that we have…
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The Southeast Farm Press noted today that there will be a meeting for Georgia landowners who lost timber from the high winds of Hurricane Michael. The meeting is hosted by the Georgia Forestry Commission. GFC and personnel from the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Services, and University of Georgia Cooperative Extension will discuss how landowners…
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Scientific American recently published an article about a new study that looked at how different forests around the world handle drought. What they found was that forests that have a large variety of different tree species were more resilient in a drought than forests with few different types of trees. They attribute the difference to…
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Here are a couple of interesting stories I have seen lately discussing trees and forestry. Virginia Tech News posted a story about how researchers at Virginia Tech are using our knowledge about recent climate trends to predict the growth of loblolly pines through the middle of this century. This will be of benefit to foresters…
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If you’ve been following news about the record-setting California wildfires this summer, you may have heard that wildfires in California are increasing due to more droughts due to climate change. However, when you look at the data, the statistics are a bit more nuanced. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has crunched the numbers,…
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