Forestry

March 28, Hezhou Gui Sunda Plate Co., Ltd. produce 100,000 cubic meters of plywood project goes into operation. Same day, the annual output of 200,000 cubic meters particleboard project started. Hezhou leader said: “These two forestry production and processing projects started, marking the Hezhou forestry industry chain is becoming longer and longer, to build a foundation for billions of forest industry.”

Developed and developing countries alike must play a role in addressing climate change, a reality that we simply cannot escape. However, many suppliers in the forest products market, especially small- and medium-sized firms, are concerned that the red tape resulting from environmental policy is in danger of creating more paperwork than it’s intended to save.

In June loggers from across the Northeast were recognized at the Blaine House, the residence for the standing governor, for their outstanding business and sustainable harvesting practices.

“The Northeast Master Loggers Certification Board certified eleven new Master Logger companies,” said Beth Postlewaite, executive director of the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands (TCNF), as she gave out the awards. “Of the eleven companies certified, six were from Maine. This is a model for the nation.”

Forest fires release significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere¹, but also convert a fraction of the burning vegetation to charred black carbon.

24 August 2010: Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), delivered a keynote address titled "Forests, Climate Change, and Communities: Making Progress up the Learning Curve" at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)