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Blog Archive
- Smokey's back!. "Get your Smokey on!""
- Three new Agroforestry Notes are available. They focus on landscape assessments and planning. In case you wonder where AF Note #37 is, it has been assigned to a forthcoming Note to be published this fall.
- Short Rotation Crops International Conference
August 18-22, 2008, Bloomington, Minnesota - First call for papers: 11th North American Agroforestry Conference
- Small, but mighty. What could it be?
- As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation. "We're in a crisis here. Do we want to eat, or do we want to worry about the birds?"
- Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might. Researchers make breakthrough in creating gasoline from plant matter, with almost no carbon footprint.
- Prairie grass energy boost studied in the field. Using switchgrass as a biofuel yields five times more energy than is used to grow it.
- Sweet on silvopasture. Another issue of our newsletter to whet your appetite for agroforestry.
- Nutrient runoff deforming frogs. The deformed frogs have been a puzzle for more than a decade.
- Seeing the non-timber forest products for the trees. Our latest issue of "Inside Agroforestry" is available.
- As bees go missing, a $9.3B crisis lurks. The mysterious disappearance of millions of bees is fueling fears of an agricultural disaster, writes Fortune's David Stipp.
- Our Working Trees For Wildlife brochure has been revised!
- On fringe of forests, homes and fires meet. "[F]ederally owned public lands continue to attract more people as they evolve into something they were never intended to be: a real-estate amenity."
- Beyond the fence line. Our latest newsletter encourages you to get to know your neighbors.
- Family forestry: "Nearly 60 percent of the nation's forests are privately owned, the majority by families and individuals and most of these owners are 55 or older. A huge swath of forest land is about to change hands as aging landowners pass the land to heirs or buyers."
- "Humongous fungus" takes toll on fir forest. Root rot - The world's largest organism is the size of 1,600 football fields.
- New Agroforestry Note available: "Pesticide Considerations For Native Bees In Agroforestry."
- New Forest Service grant opportunities. Wood To Energy "Jump-Start" Program Grants deadline: June 29; National Forest Restoration Working Partnerships Grants deadline: July 13.
- From "hobby tree" to serious orchard crop: First black walnut orchard guide directs landowners toward growing black walnut for nut production.
- Twenty-nine reasons for planting trees. Compiled from various sources by: Glenn Roloff, USDA Forest Service (Northern Region), Missoula, Montana.
- How To Go Organic. Organic Trade Association launches new site "to help cultivate the growth of organic agriculture."
- Funding available for coastal wetlands protection. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is accepting applications through June 29, 2007.
- Helping farmers tap into carbon markets. Science positions the poor to gain from climate change schemes.
- Losing their buzz. Here is another article regarding the disappearance of millions of bees. "Even in a high-tech age when the human capacity to improve upon nature seems limitless, there is no satisfactory substitute for the honeybee."
- Walter Lowdermilk's journey: Forester to Land Conservationist. "The profession required expertise in many fields of study, but as practiced by Lowdermilk it was not a purely academic exercise. Rather he sought an ambitious objective -- a permanent agriculture for the world."
- Mystery illness devastates honeybee colonies. "Reports of the problem have intensified in recent weeks and spanned 22 states, but some beekeepers say that they began seeing their colonies decline almost two years ago."
- Fuel for the future. Our latest newsletter focuses on woody biomass for energy. Fill'r up!
- $25M prize to beat greenhouse gas. Winner will have to devise a way of removing a billion tons of carbon gases from the atmosphere annually for 10 years.
- Science panel calls global warming "unequivocal". "The evidence is on the table."
