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Money grows on (his) trees
2014-09-02 19:22:57| Apparel - Topix.net
The New York Botanical Garden's rare books room is off-limits to the public, but for $375 visitors can buy a platter adorned with peonies or a $98 dahlia-shaped paperweight, both created from the tomes' imagery.
Forest For The Trees NW brings mural artists from around the world to Portland
2014-08-28 19:20:20| PortlandOnline
Beth Nakamura in The Oregonian, August 22, 2014
A clearing in the trees
2014-08-21 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: IN 1998 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then Brazils president, said he would triple the area of the Amazonian forest set aside for posterity. At the time the ambition seemed vain: Brazil was losing 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles) of forest a year. Over the next 15 years loggers, ranchers, environmentalists and indigenous tribes battled it out--often bloodily--in the worlds largest tropical forest. Yet all the while presidents were patiently patching together a jigsaw of national parks...
Trees lose out to climate change
2014-08-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: Pollution and human encroachment may be a great threat elsewhere, but forests are suffering more from wind, bark beetles and wildfire. Europe's forests are very much protected these days, but climate change has been defeating the object of trying to maintain the vestiges of the great Eurasian forest that once covered the land. To check up on forestry worldwide, look at - The Earth Times Encyclopaedia. Studying the last decade, Rupert Seidii, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Werner Rammer and Pieter Johannes...
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Plan sell burned California trees sends sparks flying
2014-08-14 08:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Long, heavy logging trucks, swaying with the weight of charred California pines, wind through the forest near Yosemite National Park, part of an effort to clean up from last years devastating wildfires even as new blazes break out this summer. But as the U.S. Forest Service prepares to release plans this month for selling thousands of the burned trees to logging companies, conflict is brewing with residents who say the trucks are dangerous and environmentalists who fear the project is just an...
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