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USFS and NASA Team Up On Early Warning System For Forests
The Forest Service recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify and respond to unexpected changes in the nation’s forests by using web-based tools. The satellite-based monitoring and assessment tool, aptly…
No Southern Hospitality For The Emerald Ash Borer
State forestry agencies in the South are bracing for the potential arrival of the emerald ash borer. Agencies, like the Georgia Forestry Commission, are putting out traps to capture the beetles that attack ash trees.…
Trees Tell Their Story To Satellites
Communications via satellite are changing the way the forest industry harvests trees. A new approach being tested by ESA combines satcoms and cellular services to relay important information almost immediately so that fewer trees are…
Opinions Mixed On New U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule
The U.S. Forest Service’s recently released planning rule could turn the agency into a more efficient decision maker or create a department of perpetual planning, depending on who you listen to. “We are ready to…
Swedish Model Of Sustainable, Productive Forestry Could Help Northwest
Environmentalists’ hypersensitivity to modern productive forestry practices is a legacy of a bygone era of forest exploitation in the northwestern United States. Is this hypersensitivity understandable? Of course. Is it sensible in a more modern…
Double Trouble From Mountain Pine Beetles?
The evolution of mountain pine beetles to produce two generations of beetle per year instead of one has probably been a factor in the unparalleled damage that insects have caused in pine forests in the…
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