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Pinus resinosa, A Top 100 Common Tree in North America

Five points to remember when preparing your Federal income tax if you have a timber account.

By Simon Roach, SciDev.Net, 20 January 2015 A recent estimate of the planet’s ‘natural capital’ is US$125 trillion a year. [1] This figure attempts to capture the value of the ‘ecosystem services’ — essentially all the benefits of a healthy, natural environment — provided by such things as carbon-storing trees, drainage basins that prevent flooding and insect life that helps agriculture flourish. Natural capital is a controversial concept. Many feel putting a price on nature is either impossible or ethically unsound. But its supporters argue that without doing so ecosystem services are at risk of being left out of economic models and decision-making. “We’re degrading the natural environment and losing species at an alarming rate. So let’s put a value on nature and get it incorporated into these models so that we can start investing in the maintenance, protection or possibly even enhancement of those ecosystem services,” says Darren Evans, a conservation biologist...

China, Indonesia Brazil Portugal and Australia face allegations over cheap uncoated paper imports...

Stealing Trees: Three Methods a Thief May Use - Knowing how trees are stolen will help you prevent timber theft

The Natural Range of Hackberry. Forestry.

Regardless of the size of the timber sale, a written timber contract prevents misunderstanding and protects both the buyer and seller.

When sizing up a ginseng plant for collection you need to consider seed collection and or returning the seed to surrounding soil.

Shumard Oak, A Top 100 Common Tree in North America

A short but in-depth biography on the sycamore tree or planetree.

Five points to remember when preparing your Federal income tax if you have a timber account.

Crown raising is simply removing selected branches from the bottom of the crown of a tree. This is necessary when clearance is needed under the tree. Here is how you do it.

Many yard trees are for sale at the right price but buyers are hard to find. Here is the realistic approach to marketing trees for sale in the yard.

The Saskatchewan and Alberta governments have reaffirmed their long-standing co-operation on forest insects and disease, signing a three year agreement to work together on mountain pine beetle management.

Veolia has launched a new technology to transform non-recyclable paper and cardboard from household waste into a pulp. This new pulp is suitable for a range of products such as insulation and construction materials, demonstrating its commitment to the circular economy.

This is a multidisciplinary two-year program taught in English at the University of Eastern Finland. The program combines group teaching and independent research with the objective of providing participants with professional skills in environmental law and policy.

As announced earlier, Huhtamäki Oyj completed the sale of its Films business on December 31, 2014 with the debt and cash free selling price of EUR 141 million....

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2015 -- The United Steelworkers (USW) and four U.S. paper manufacturers announced that they have filed antidumping petitions against unfairly priced imports of certain types of uncoated paper in sheets from China...

Anja Silvennoinen, 54, MSc in Energy technology, MBA, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Pöyry PLC and President of the Energy Business Group and member of the Group Executive Committee of Pöyry PLC. She will assume these positions on 1 March 2015 and will report to Alexis Fries, President and CEO of Pöyry PLC.

As detailed in the attached press release from AB Industrivärden, Sverker Martin-Löf has announced his intention to leave his directorships at the companies' coming Annual General Meetings.