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| Sunday, November 5, 2017 Over 800 readers and growing! |
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Wildfire panel discussion 11/14/17contributed by
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On Tuesday November 14th, join the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed for a panel
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The Three-Legged Stoolvideos contributed by |
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Doak Nickerson, district forester for Nebraska Forest Service, talks about the "three-legged stool" approach to creating and managing fire-tolerant forests and healthy land management in northwest Nebraska. |
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Advocacycontributed by
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I work regularly with the various Colorado Congressional Representatives and recently went to DC for the Annual Fly-In. Additionally, the NPAC committee and Tree Farmers country-wide have been targeting their Congressional representatives. I have been working with each of our representatives throughout the states and held 8 meetings while in DC on this trip.
Here is what we have been working on:
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10+ Badass Trees That Refuse To Die No Matter Whatcontributed by |
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Trees have been around for about 370 million years, and as you can from these incredible pictures, there's a good reason why they've survived for so long. Whether they're growing in the middle of gale-force winds, on the tops of rocky platforms, inside concrete tunnels, or even growing out of each other, trees know how to survive in places that few living organisms can
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The Secrets of the 'Humongous Fungus'How one of the biggest living organisms in the world got so big written by
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Twenty-five years ago, James Anderson discovered a fungus that expanded the possibilities of life on Earth. It was a single fungus of the genus Armillaria, weighing an estimated 22,000 pounds and spread over a remarkable 15 hectares. The organism had been growing for around 1,500 years, more than a millennium before the land under which it grew even became the state of Michigan. When Anderson and his collaborators wrote it up in Nature, they suggested it was “among the largest and oldest living organisms” in the world.
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The western pine beetle hit the tree’s main body. The ips beetle worked on the top of the tree, as well as its limbs. And the red turpentine beetle ate away at the base of the tree. “Any one of those beetles don’t necessarily do enough to kill a tree, but when they all get together, you start seeing mortality,” Fitzgerald said. “The length and number of different kinds of beetles attacking all at once is unprecedented as far as we know.” |
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