Current Issues

Date: 1/12/2010
Title: Wood Products and Carbon Storage
Summary: Wood Products and Carbon Storage: Can increased production help solve the climate crisis?
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Date: 1/4/2010
Title: Study: Softwood sawmills in the United States
Summary: USDA profile 2006: Softwood sawmills in the United States
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Date: 12/9/2009
Title: Study: Economic Impact of Privately Owned Forests
Summary: Prepared for: National Alliance of Forest Owners
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Date: 11/30/2009
Title: Road to Recovery
Summary: Mark Brinkmeyer's (Idaho Forest Group) presnetation to Pacific Logging Conference on U.S. forest products supply and demand
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Date: 11/20/2009
Title: S. 1470
Summary: Read bill text: "Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009"
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Date: 11/20/2009
Title: Spark and Sprawl
Summary: In this wide-ranging essay, Stephen Pyne, the preeminent historian of wildfire around the world, explores the past, present, and future of the term “wildland-urban interface” and the policies regarding fire in that setting. He argues that, while we need to remove fire from the urban side of the interface, we also need to boost it on the wildland side.
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