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Burn trees, save planet
Climate researchers say the United States could trim its greenhouse gas emissions by starting more prescribed fires

Portland based Ecotrust unveils carbon credits from Olympic forest
A for-profit subsidiary of Portland-based Ecotrust has signed its first deal to sell carbon credits from forest land it owns

Weyerhauser Joins Enviro-Industry Climate Coalition
Global timber giant Weyerhaeuser Co. said today it has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership group that is lobbying for comprehensive climate and energy legislation on Capitol Hill

Group intends to sue after retardant kills fish
An environmental group intends to sue state and county agencies after fire retardant used on Santa Barbara wildfires killed some 50 protected steelhead trout this year.

Carbon values drive forest investment, greens wary
New rewards to store carbon in trees are driving forestry investments, but green groups fear they pose a threat to ancient woodlands and rainforests.

South Korea's forest agency tackles emissions
Can South Korea achieve the ambitious target of cutting back 30 percent of its estimated greenhouse gas emissions in 2020?

CA - Arcata Forest signs on to new carbon program
Arcata has committed just over 20 percent of its community forest to grow trees and store carbon, part of a contract with the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. meant to reduce greenhouse gases.

Staples, Home Depot Join Southern Forests Project
A new initiative called Carbon Canopy hopes to create incentives for private forest owners in the Southern U.S.

First and largest forest carbon origination pipeline program in the US
Created and managed by C2I, LLC, GreenTrees currently has a total of 30 carbon sequestration properties located in the Delta regions of Arkansas and Louisiana

CA - Sierra Pacific Industries makes huge carbon deal
Sierra Pacific Industries, and Equator, LLC, a natural resources asset management firm, announced they have entered into the nation's single largest pre-compliance forest carbon transaction to date.

Dovetail Partners Examines Selection of Green Flooring Materials
New report looks at life cycle impacts of alternatives

Pacific NW Landowners Team Up To Market Forest Offsets
Owners of forestland in the Pacific NW could benefit more under a national carbon offsets system, as trees common to the region store more carbon per acre than East Coast species.

BC - Logging Whistler To Examine Community Forest
The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) is hosting a talk entitled "Logging Whistler?" that will examine whether Whistler is going about it the right way

AU - Forestry Review Calls For Tougher Sanctions Against Loggers
FORESTRY agreements set up by the Federal Government have done little to protect the environment from logging, a review of Australia's national environmental laws has found.

CA - Mill Teaches Environmental Benefits
Architects laid down their pencils and builders dropped their hammers last month. They, along with engineers from throughout Northern California, traveled to the Collins Pine Mill in Chester, Calif., to learn more about building "green."

NNRG Announces NW NEUTRAL - A New Carbon Emissions Offset Program
The Northwest Natural Resource Group (NNRG) is proud to announce the historic first sale of carbon offsets from Northwest small forestlands through NNRGs new NW Neutral program.

PI - Cebu Power Firm Vows To Plant 70,000 Trees Every Year
CEDC station manager Emilio H. Javier said his company?s commitment to plant 70,000 trees per year is aimed to arrest carbon dioxide emission and contribute to the campaign against climate change

UN Report: Nature Best Controls Climate Gases
Nature's way is best for controlling the gases responsible for climate change, the U.N. Environment Program said in a report Friday

AU - Seeing Red Over Logging In Land Of Rare Parrot
THE battle to protect the country's largest river red gum forest, home to the threatened superb parrot, will escalate today when the State Government's forestry department outlines logging plans that environmentalists claim are illegal

MN - Dovetail Partners Releases Green Building Comparison Report
Dovetail Partners has released a new report that evaluates the Minnesota GreenStar Program and the National Green Building Standard developed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

Green Leek Parrot Endangers 1000 Jobs In NSW
A PARROT is about to cost 1000 workers their jobs because the Federal Government has ordered a timber industry to be shut down to protect the bird

Russia - Amur Tigers Threatened By Economic Crisis
Loggers in Russia's Far East increasingly are cutting down Korean cedar pine, raising concerns that the endangered Amur tiger could lose critical habitat

Crisis Hits Wood Industry, Forests Still Vulnerable
The global financial crisis and the collapse of the housing sector are a big blow for wood industries, but this is not necessarily good news for the world's forests

ID - Sequestered In The Forest
Sequestration carries a very different meaning - the forest's natural ability to capture, and hold in seclusion, carbon dioxide

CVal: A Carbon Valuation Tool for Foresters and Private Forest Landowners
CVal was designed to evaluate managed forest and afforestation projects traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange, but its methodology could be adapted for other trading mechanisms and agricultural sequestration projects

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