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NEWS U.S. ENDOWMENT FOR FOESTRY AND COMMUNITIES RELEASES FOREST INVESTMENT ZONES CALL FOR PRE-PROPOSALS U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Greenville, SC For publication on [July 22, 2008] This release is to be published on ENN/Market Wire. It is available for national distribution now. ____...

The Healthy Forests and Rangelands is a new combined federal agency web portal for information on healthy forests and rangelands. Besides fire safety conditions, other reports are available such as the June 2008 Healthy Forests Report . You can also search for " Success Stories " by state,...

U.S. Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) has a new web site on Climate Change . “Climate change is the biggest conservation challenge facing the Forest Service in the 21st century and contributing to global efforts that help forests mitigate and adapt to climate change is a priority for...

Scientific American has recently published news article entitled " Combatting Climate Change: Farming Out Global Warming Solutions ." From the article: "Saving the trees could slow climate change, new research shows. Each year, nearly 33 million acres of forestland around the world is...

Studies of ecosystem services aim at integrating both economics and natural science. A broader field, or perhaps another way of saying the same thing, is sustainability science. We had a conference last fall on "Sustainability Science for Watershed Management" where several CTAHR researchers...

A subcommittee of the US Senate Agriculture committee will be holding a hearing on March 21, 2008. The Senate Ag Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation and Credit will be holding a hearing "Creating Jobs with Climate Solutions: How agriculture and forestry can help lower costs in a low...

A couple of thoughts on ecosystem services in Hawaii, with particular reference to terrestrial, forestry-oriented systems. 1) There's a lot of emphasis on conservation of relatively pristine native forest habitat for wildlife in the conservation community. The larger value of these areas for ecosystem...