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| Monday, May 1, 2017 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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What's in your Woods?Be a winner in the Wisest Woodcutter contest by choosing the most correct answers in "Whats in your Woods?" over the next year. See details.
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Community Preparedness Day -
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For details (schedule, waivers, check in location)
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Premiere episode of "America's Forests with Chuck Leavell", (Rolling Stones keyboardist, conservationist, Tree Farmer)contributed by
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Following are: 1-a link to the premier episode of “America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell” -- https://vimeo.com/211429966 , produced by Bruce Ward and Choose Outdoors. This episode was filmed in Oregon and discusses Cross Laminated Timber, tall buildings, forest restoration, and more. Bruce is working on a series of 12 additional videos. The Colorado video is next in the queue and Bruce hopes to complete that episode by the end of 2017. 2-a link to an article about Chuck Leavell and this series of videos -- http://treesource.org/goods-and-services/chuck-leavell-forestry-americas-forests/ 3-a link to an Evergreen magazine interview with Bruce Ward about his work with so many people connected to forests, including recreationists, forest products companies, the Forest Service, and urban Americans -- https://www.evergreenmagazine.com/bruce-ward-the-wisdom-of-recreation/ . Enjoy the video and the articles. Kudos to Bruce for his great work. Tom
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Senate launches Working Forest Caucuscontributed by
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U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Angus King (I-ME), joined by a bipartisan group of senators, launched the new Senate Working Forests Caucus. The Caucus, which has 11 inaugural members, will serve as a forum for policies that promote and preserve America’s working forests.
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The Colorado State Forest:
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The Colorado State Forest Service works with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and other entities to manage Colorado State Forest, keeping it beautiful and healthy for generations to come.
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Forest service nursery gets an upgradeContributed by
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It was the bane of their existence: a 50-year-old conveyor belt at the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery, used to transport hundreds of thousands of seedlings throughout 18,000 square feet of greenhouses. Crucial to the nursery’s day-to-day operations, the conveyor – like any mechanical equipment showing its age – kept breaking. And breaking. |
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Call to Actionfrom Nick Smith, healthy Forests, Healthy Communities
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Climate Change Talk concerning treesContributed by Sharon Bloyer, Tree Farmer
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I'm attaching the general presentation I made to the Front Range Forum group on climate change and global warming. We had a discussion that lasted over an hour so I believe it was something of a success. The articles we discussed were "How do trees change the climate? filed under RealClimate blog and an Op-Ed in the NYTimes "To Save the Planet, Don't Plant Trees?"
Sharon "To Save the Planet, Don't Plant Trees?" by Nadine Unger, Yale "How do trees change the climate?" by Abby Swann, U of Washington
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and just for fun Spiders theoretically could eat every human
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Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than three-quarters of bedrooms. There’s a good chance at least one spider is staring at you right now, sizing you up from a darkened corner of the room, eight eyes glistening in the shadows. |
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