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Pine straw is a favored mulch and groundcover for landscapers and homeowners. This trend is providing extra income to the forest owners who own pines. Here are the most frequently asked questions about pine needle harvest.

Cedars can be confused with junipers and arvorvitae. Here is some help sperating thiirsimilar characteristics.

The Important American Hardwoods - American Holly - ilex opaca

Pinus rigida

Blackgum or Nyssa sylvatica

Identify Baldcypress - The Important American Conifers

The leaf of conifers called needles is a necessary term to know when identifying tree leaves.

Seiridium canker disease is a major problem for Leyland cypress tree owners. Read more if you are a cypress owner or are planing to plant one.

Firefighters have been battling the Soberanes Fire for two months.

A Tree Leaf Identification Quiz on Common North American Trees

Johannesburg, South Africa, 24th September—A new analysis finds the global ivory trade continued unabated in 2015 at the record levels recorded earlier in the decade, underlining the need for renewed efforts to disrupt the criminal networks orchestrating the trade.

At GreenBlue's SPC Advance Conference, GreenBlue and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced plans formally launch a process for building a new model to provide assurance of sustainability of family forest sources, at the landscape level, across the United States.

While knowledge is increasing about forests as a source of day-to-day subsistence and as a safety net in times of need, much less is known about the extent to which forests can provide a pathway out of poverty. Currently, there is no systematic understanding of how forests may help the chronically poor move to become sometimes poor, and the sometimes poor to become the non-poor.

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While knowledge is increasing about forests as a source of day-to-day subsistence and as a safety net in times of need, much less is known about the extent to which forests can provide a pathway out of poverty. Currently, there is no systematic understanding of how forests may help the chronically poor move to become sometimes poor, and the sometimes poor to become the non-poor.

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Organizing the largest single-day volunteer effort in support of public lands in the country, National Public Lands Day, is no easy feat for the U.S. Forest Service. That’s 40 days of volunteer projects, BioBlitzes, fishing derbies, and educational events, all of which are registered with the National Environmental Education Foundation, the organization that started National [...]

Rural households in Armenia are heavily reliant on fuelwood and other forest products and ecosystem services. However, the country’s forests are in decline. This activity aims to inform forest sector policies in Armenia through a survey of rural communities on forest dependence and poverty.

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Rural households in Armenia are heavily reliant on fuelwood to meet their heating and energy needs. In addition to fuelwood, the forest-adjacent population also use the forests for shelter, fodder for grazing cattle, as access to grazing lands, and to supplement their income through the selling of non-timber forest products. Many communities also benefit from ecosystem services provided by Armenia’s forests, including erosion and flood protection. 

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Indonesia’s persistent fire and haze crises undermine the country’s economic gains and disproportionately affect the poor. This activity aims to assist the Government of Indonesia in formulating a sustainable and socially inclusive strategy and action plan to restore, manage and develop lowland areas prone to fire and haze.

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UN Member States highlighted national actions to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change, as the 71st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) entered the third day of its general debate at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 22 September 2016. The debate is focusing on the theme 'The SDGs: a universal push to transform our world.'

The effects of an intense storm every twenty-five years could make the marine alga populations of Cystoseira zosteroides disappear – an endemic species of the Mediterranean with great ecological value for the biodiversity of marine benthos – according to a new article.

For fall foliage information The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service has a fall color website that tracks the color in National Forests.