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| Sunday, August 18, 2019 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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Biomass101 Refutes Anti-Forestry Extremists with Facts, Sciencecontributed by
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The most effective way to make a lie seem true is to simply repeat it again. And again. And again. And (if funding allows) again. An opinion piece authored by The Dogwood Alliance and published by The Hill on March 21 relied on this tired tactic, as Dogwood made yet another attempt to change the global conversation about working forests based solely on fear. To rebut the misinformation, Biomass101 has compiled an excellent “redlined” refutation with actual evidence and science.
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Forestry Researchers Gain New Insights Into Wood Formation |
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North Carolina State University researchers have uncovered how a complex network of transcription factors switch wood formation genes on and off. Understanding this transcriptional regulatory network has applications for modifying wood properties for timber, paper and biofuels, as well as making forest trees more disease- and pest-resistant.
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Colorado History: Larimer County’s extensive lumber industrycontributed by
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Since milled lumber was in high demand along the Front Range, the vast timber resources in along the Front Range quickly evolved into a major industry. The earliest logging operation was the Cole and Carter tie camp starting south of Red Feather Lakes including land down to the Cache la Poudre River.
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Tahoe NF videocontributed by
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Besides being somewhat dramatic and overusing slo-mo (and a forester measuring DBH at his bellybutton!), this is really good. I particularly like the animation of how the forests have changed. |
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Sawdust Might Be One Answer to the World’s Plastic Problemcontributed by
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A technology startup near Ontario’s leafy border with Michigan says it has the answer to the world’s plastic pollution problem: sawdust. Origin Materials is getting ready to pay sawmills in the area $20 a ton for the scraps left over in the process of turning logs into lumber, which it will use to make recyclable plastic bottles that remove carbon-dioxide from the sky because they’re made from sustainably sourced wood waste. Nestle SA, Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. plan to sell water in Origin’s recyclable plant-based bottles in early 2022.
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Donations Provide Seedling Trees for Post-Fire Restoration in Coloradocontributed byRyan Lockwood |
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Study: Beetle outbreak improves community support for forest managementcontributed by
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The Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak from 1996 to 2014 affected 3.4 million acres of forestland across Colorado, turning forests all over central and northern Colorado into veritable tree graveyards in the years since. At the plague’s peak in 2007, half the trees in Summit County turned a rusty, muddy red that blazed dimly across the hills and valleys. Given a lack of research as to how the visual impact of insect infestations affect the human psyche, researchers sought to understand how people perceive risk of fire, economic and other impacts as the forest colors change.
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