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| Sunday, January 20, 2019 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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Colorado Tree Farmer inspector recognition awards contributed by
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Outstanding CO Tree Farm inspectors were recognized during the Colorado State Forest Service’s annual meeting and banquet in October. Pat was recognized for his assistance during the field portion of the 2017 ATFS audit. Meg, Ashley and Mike were received recognition for Outstanding efforts towards the CO Tree Farmer program.
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Half of Coloradans Now Live in Areas at Risk to WildfiresContributed by
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Attached and below is a news release announcing that the Colorado State Forest Service has just updated the Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (CO-WRAP), an online mapping tool that helps Colorado community leaders, professional planners and interested citizens determine wildfire risk and where forest management actions can achieve the greatest impact to reduce risk. Based on data represented in the revised version of CO-WRAP, the number of Coloradans living in areas at risk to the effects of wildland fire increased by nearly 50 percent from 2012 to 2017. As of 2017, approximately 2.9 million people – or roughly half of the state’s population – live in Colorado’s wildland-urban interface (WUI), compared to 2 million people just five years prior. Please contact me with any questions or requests. Thanks, Ryan Ryan Lockwood
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The Case for Making Cities Out of WoodContributed by |
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Teng Li, a University of Maryland mechanical engineer, created with his colleagues wood that’s as “strong as steel, but six times lighter.” Liangbing Hu, Li’s co-author on the study, added, “This kind of wood could be used in cars, airplanes, buildings—any application where steel is used.”
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Forests and forest products offset 10-20 percent of carbon emissions every yearcontributed by
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Recently, a paper by Dr. Eric D. Vance was published in Forest Ecology and Management, summarizing major findings from studies of managed forest carbon budgets published over the last decade. He found there is strong evidence to suggest that active forest management offers long-term carbon benefits. In fact, he determined that forests and forests products offset 10-20 percent of carbon emissions every year!
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Trump admin promises to ‘encourage’ tree burning for energycontributed by
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The heads of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Energy (DOE) sent a letter to Congress outlining how they are carrying out a mandate from a law passed earlier this year to ensure that policies “reflect the carbon-neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.”
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See the National Forests like never before in these awe-inspiring drone videoscontributed by the U.S. Forest Service
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The Forest Service manages nearly 200 million acres of public lands, but getting the public to actually pay attention and care isn’t always easy. To bring renewed attention to how these lands are used, the Forest Service knew it would need more than a pamphlet — much more. Its new campaign, called Your Forests Your Future, looks to build an audience across new types of media, including a podcast, video series, and eventually a VR experience.
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Start-up Blue Forest secures funding for first privately financed forest fire bondcontributed by
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In a remote corner of the Sierra Nevada, amid 8,000-foot peaks and deep river gorges, a financial experiment is about to begin. Once this winter’s snow melts, workers will cut down small trees and burn off undergrowth across 5,000 acres of the Tahoe National Forest. But those workers won’t be paid by the U.S. Forest Service or any other public agency that typically funds forestry projects.
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