Forests

"Water Supplies at Risk From Fires in Dead Forests"

"Water supplies for 33 million people could be endangered if millions of acres of beetle-ravaged forests in the Rocky Mountains catch fire, a U.S. Forest Service official said Tuesday."

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Source: AP, 06/18/2009

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November 1, 2009 to November 5, 2009

American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting

2009 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-5 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA

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Projects in 12 States Share Wildfire Funding

$15 million of Stimulus funding for 55 projects, designed to help reduce wildfire hazards and reclaim burned lands, could be of substantial interest in the receiving communities.

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Regenwoud

Dutch portal about rainforest issues.

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"USDA Undersecretary Nominee Withdraws"

"President Obama's nominee to lead the Forest Service and farmland conservation programs has withdrawn his name from consideration."

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Source: Greenwire, 06/09/2009

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Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization

Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture

THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26

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Obama Administration Leaps Into Roadless Brawl

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack took personal control over logging and road projects on tens of millions of acres of National Forest in a temporary effort to resolve controversy over the "Roadless Rule."

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Source: Greenwire, 05/29/2009

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La minería amenaza

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En la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca

Olga Rosario Avendaño ofreció a SEJ/SPA una nota exclusiva sobre el manejo comunitario de bosques en la sierra y la ciudad de Oaxaca, México, como resultado de un taller patrocinado por el International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) sobre la cobertura del manejo comunitario de bosques con fecha del 3 al 6 de abril de 2008.

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Forest Activists Drop Suit on Press-Conference Ejection

After an appeals court ruling against them, and running out of funds, conservationists dropped their suit against the Forest Service for escorting them from a press conference on a Bitterroot National Forest timber sale.

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