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| Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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Pagosa Springs Family Receives Tree Farmer of the Year Awardcontributed by |
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DURANGO, Colo. – September 12, 2019 – The Colorado State Forest Service has again recognized a Pagosa Springs family as the state’s “Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year.” The annual award, which is bestowed for exceptional efforts toward growing renewable timber resources while protecting environmental benefits and increasing public awareness, was bestowed to the Seidel family in 1984 and again this year. |
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Invasive pests kill so many trees each year, it’s equal to 5 million car emissionscontributed by
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Invasive insects and pathogens have wreaked havoc on ash, elm, chestnut trees and others, wiping some of them almost completely from American forests. In addition to the ecological impact, a Purdue University study shows that the carbon storage lost to these pests each year is the same as the amount of carbon emitted by 5 million vehicles
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Finland Makes Batteries from Trees. Can Maine?contributed by |
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While Maine and Finland are thousands of miles apart, our relative geographic locations and like climate mean that we can both boast enormous forest cover—Finland is about 80% forest, and Maine is 90% forest—and have therefore developed biomass-based industries in parallel.
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Beer + trees = #Cerveza4YourService for Swaffarcontributed by |
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Like many Montanans, Wes Swaffar likes beer. He also has a personal and professional affinity for trees, as the reforestation and partnership director for the National Forest Foundation in Missoula. And now his two loves are coming together, courtesy of a new partnership with Anheuser-Busch and the nonprofit National Forest Foundation. In light of the foundation’s initiative to plant 50 million trees in America’s national forests in the next five years, the beer brewing giant has agreed to pay for planting a tree for every case of its new Cerveza Patagonia lager that’s sold.
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Spotted Lanternfly vs. Pennsylvania: The Bug Is WinningGrossed-out residents resort to flamethrowers and giant vacuums
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Wes, it's not forestry related but maybe some Tree Farm members have relatives in the east that should be on the lookout for this latest invasive. The government sent out a message: Kill them all. Flamethrowers, chemicals and heavy boots are some weapons of choice. “Stop. Scrape. Squish,” read one informational poster. Another: “Join the battle. Beat the bug.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared war on the invasive spotted lanternfly, but southeastern Pennsylvania seems to be losing the fight.
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Emerald Ash Borer Detected in Larimer Countycontributed by
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Below is a news release concerning the confirmation of the presence of emerald ash borer (EAB) – an invasive, highly destructive tree pest – near the Town of Berthoud, in Larimer County. This detection represents the first ever in Larimer County, and the third confirmation of EAB in Colorado outside of a federal quarantine in less than two months. Also attached are images of the infested tree before it was removed and a wood chunk from the tree. Please credit the City of Loveland for the images of the wood chunk (which is debarked and covered in EAB galleries), and credit Nathan Sewolt, A-1 Natural Arbor Care, for the tree image. If you have questions, please contact me; Dave Lentz with Larimer County at 970-498-5765 or lentzdz@co.larimer.co.us; or Josh Embrey with Town of Berthoud at 970-532-1600 or jembrey@berthoud.org. Thanks, Teddy Parker-Renga
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