WUI in the News
Here you can find recent articles in on-line newspapers, magazines, and other related publications on interface topics. Please note that while InterfaceSouth has reference to these articles in this database, sometimes the links do not remain active for very long. If you would like to obtain the article, you must contact the source of the article directly.
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State group trying to help hemlocks
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Nov 09, 2011
For several years, Stuart Carroll has been herding a group of officials from several Tennessee, federal and nonprofit organizations, all trying to plan for the onslaught of hemlock woolly adelgids.
Bug Battle: An Invasive Plant Now Faces Its Own Attacker
The Wall Street Journal
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Nov 01, 2011
Insects From Asia Munch on Kudzu, a Vine That Has Grown on Some
Land owners conference tackles government issues
WALB News 10
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Nov 01, 2011
More than 200 people met in Tifton, GA for the Southern Woodland Owners Conference and Solutions fair to learn how to use their land better.
Report: New approach needed to prevent wildfire disasters
Summit County Citizens Voice
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Oct 15, 2011
The U.S. Forest Service says preventing wildfire disasters requires a change of approach, away from costly and “strategically ineffective” efforts aimed at increasing fire protection capabilities. Instead, efforts should be focused toward reducing the ignition potential directly around homes in the wildland-urban interface.
Future Forests May Soak Up More Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Believed
ScienceDaily
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Oct 13, 2011
North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated.
Innovative iPhone App Tracks Wild Fires, Saves Lives
San Francisco Chronicle
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Oct 03, 2011
Now available in the iPhone App Store, the FireWhat App supplies firefighters with critical information about wildland fires across the nation.
With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors
The New York Times
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Oct 01, 2011
Scientists have figured out — with the precise numbers deduced only recently — that forests have been absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that people are putting into the air by burning fossil fuels and other activities. It is an amount so large that trees are effectively absorbing the emissions from all the world’s cars and trucks.
The Economics of Urban Trees
The Atlantic Cities
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Sep 30, 2011
Most people enjoy a good tree, especially the rare one found inside city limits, but typically they leave it at that. Not so with Geoffrey Donovan of the U.S. Forest Service in Portland, Oregon. As Donovan told SF Gate in May, it's the fact that most people stop there that keeps him going: "People have an intuitive sense that trees are good things... Being a soulless economist, I like to quantify things. 'Trees are nice' isn't a very useful statement. You need to know how nice and in what sorts of circumstances."
California Forest Hailed as Model for New Management Paradigm
The New York Times
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Sep 29, 2011
Pacific Forest Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit is rewriting the rules of forest economics by proving that stands of trees can remain ecologically valuable while also generating significant income for their owners -- goals that have pitted logging communities against environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest for decades.
Forest Service Report Documents Environmental Benefits of Wood as a Green Building Material
USDA News Release
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Sep 29, 2011
The findings of a new U.S. Forest Service study indicate that wood should factor as a primary building material in green building, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today.
