Guest guest Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Today for you 35 new articles about earth's trees! (460th edition) ------------------- Every Tree news article now accompanied with photos / maps / documents via: http://forestpolicyresearch.org Links to each article below texted to your cell phone / browser every hour on the hour: http://twitter.com/forestpolicy Or to these email messages by sending a blank email to earthtreenews- ------------------- Index & links: 1) British Columbia: Columbia Valley becomes first in Canada to adopt conservation fund tax http://bit.ly/SQOw 2) British Columbia: Outrageous corruption cuts the fee for forest destruction in half http://bit.ly/1g07hs 3) British Columbia: Forest Minster Bell speaks out about his all Chinese future of forestry http://bit.ly/pqyc 4) Pacfic Northwest: Even thinning forest near Spotted Owl Nests causes nest abandonment http://bit.ly/3R9o 5) Washington: Enviros tricked into buying development rights for forestlands without development plans http://bit.ly/4Q7v 6) Washington: Wild Sky wilderness gets bigger http://bit.ly/klY1 7) Washington: Weyerhaeuser moves to the wonderful land of REIT http://bit.ly/44UhHw 8) Washington: Floods caused by housing development rather than clearcutting? http://bit.ly/Eq8w 9) Oregon: Wilderness bill comes crashing through… http://bit.ly/1oDj8c 10) California: 2-faced Schwarzenegger decides ecological concerns are irrelevant http://bit.ly/JoD7 11) California: Economic crisis slams 1,100 eco-restoration groups http://bit.ly/xtTY 12) California: Big Sur River baseline monitoring project http://bit.ly/hptg 13) California: timber industry slowly losing entitlement to pollute streams http://bit.ly/CTYV 14) California: Long live the Mineral King Wilds! http://bit.ly/O4lk 15) California: Government official busted for illegal logging! http://bit.ly/2nHVrk 16) Rocky Mountains: Bark Beetle is now the primary driver of all forest management activities http://bit.ly/ZhHlb 17) Illinois: Arboretum knows little of native flora that once lived there http://bit.ly/5Ano 18) Texas: Update on RIP: Ned Fritz http://bit.ly/Z86d 19) Texas: 2,800 acres of forestland " protected " as a " working forest " http://bit.ly/KWY8 20) New York: Economics of having a state land logging ban written into the Constitution! http://bit.ly/yOda 21) Connecticut: A visit to a Champion Cedar in Great Cedar Conservation Area http://bit.ly/iuOYC 22) New Hampshire: How easy is it for an average person to understand that logging is mostly harmful? http://bit.ly/YdQ1 23) West Virginia: State forester promises new era in forest planning http://bit.ly/Dt2E 24) West Virginia: 700 acres protected when state buy development rights http://bit.ly/R96o 25) Southern US: Top five invasive species threatening forests http://bit.ly/ZYOH 26) Georgia: Grave robbers harvest the dead with horses, call it restorative forestry http://bit.ly/JoD7 27) North Carolina: Asheville museum called " Health Adventure " destroys last urban woodland http://bit.ly/EHEI 28) Florida: 17 arrests at Earth First! protest at Barley Barber Swamp http://bit.ly/rSt9 29) USA: Bush's Healthy Forest Scheme from the Review Mirror http://bit.ly/eer 30) USA: Defend the Roadless… Write Obama a letter! http://bit.ly/Fq5w 31) USA: Biomass harvesting loopholes outlined for loggers http://bit.ly/Xtxk 32) USA: Native Forest Council on 160 public lands bills (S-22) that " protects " 200 million acres http://bit.ly/jqdN 33) USA: Dishonest collaborators, lapdog greens and lying Democrats: Wilderness overview http://bit.ly/4z9Pmz 34) USA: Letter writing campaign for green job funding / forest restoration http://bit.ly/rmvv 35) USA: Researching the economics of Forest markets http://bit.ly/uDDt -- Posted to http://forestpolicyresearch.org via gmail to posterous and also to forestpolicyresearch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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