Forestry

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The forest is the scene of one of nature's most impressive migrations; the perilous journey of the Pacific salmon from the sea through the forest rivers to spawn in its creeks.

The salmon run draws carnivores such as bears and wolves to the river bank, where they gorge on the migrating fish.

In this film, ecological economist Pavan Sukhdev, The Nature Conservancy's lead scientist Dr M Sanjayan and camerawoman Sophie Darlington talk about the salmon's unsung role in fertilising the forest.

The bears who feast on the spawning salmon don't eat on the river oe they drag the carcasses far into the forest.

Eighty percent of the nitrogen in the forest's trees comes from the salmon. In other words, these ocean dwellers are crucial for the forest's long-term survival.

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Saving kelp forests and our climatethe kelp forests fringing the North Pacific coast are one of the richest marine ecosystems On earth.

One of the kelp forest's most endearing denizens, the sea otter, is an important key to its survival.

So the otters are helping the forests to store as much carbon as they can. We tend to think that we can deal with the challenge of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by planting more vegetation,

but it turns out that animals like sea otters are providing another solution by helping to keep forests growing.

A ubiquitous woodland mix of lawn grasses and trees has found its way throughout Europe and the United states,

and a term coined by Richard Pouyat of the US Forest Service. At the moment, urban landscapes are managed highly

we are seeing new purposes for urban landscaping that are transforming the 20th century woodland park into bioswales oe plantings designed to filter stormwater oe green roofs, wildlife corridors,

The Black death also had an environmental impact oe loss of agricultural activity allowed forests to regrow,

Instead of hard, polished building faces, emerging prototypes from some of the world's research centres suggest future cities might begin to resemble artificial floating forests.

The shapes that are common within life-giving forests and jungles are the opposite of abstract cubes and spheres.

The densely layered forms of a jungle are made often of diffusive deeply interwoven material that expand

and interact with their surroundings. A new city capable of handling unstable conditions oe where it could shed heat,

and gain heat again oe might look like a forest. Each building could be made from dense layers of ivy-like filters and multiple overlapping layers of openings.

They consume food from vast tracts of farmland, timber from the forests, minerals scraped from the Earth,

This redesign of the steam engine will run on sustainably produced US timber, its exhaust will be very nearly as clean as that of a domestic kettle

Clearing of the forest began in the 1960s and reached a peak in the 90s

Although deforestation rates have declined now oe hitting an all time low in 2011-the forest is still gradually disappearing,

because the forest also plays a critical role in cleaning the air we breathe. It does this by sucking up the global emissions of carbon dioxide from things like cars,

and the hidden contribution this great forest makes in helping regulate the planets climate. If you would like to comment on this video

or forests crammed with trees, some overlapping, occluded, moving, or viewed at odd angles or in poor light.

that is, what are the patterns that allow us to see the wood and the trees.

Thierry Mora and Gasper Tkacik find that in a pixellated monochrome image of the woods in Hacklebarney State Park, New jersey,

For a selection of woodland images, the researchers show that the distributions of light and dark patches have just the same kinds of statistical behaviours as a theoretical model of a two-dimensional magnet near its critical temperature.

Forest Giant David Quammen National geographic 30 november 2012on a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National park, around 7, 000 feet above sea level in the Sierra nevada, lies a very big tree.

a group of fruit-loving monkeys that live in the forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Fruit trees are distributed randomly throughout the forest,

with some areas containing more fruit than others. So Tonkean macaques must decide which direction they will move in search of food,

African buffalo (Syncerus cafer) are large bovines distantly related to domestic cows that can be found grazing in forests, grasslands and swamps across the African continent.

so there's a limit to how much forestry we can fit on the planet. In recent years there have been attempts to remove the carbon dioxide from its source in power plants.

which would further impact our forests and other ecological spaces. Priceless subsidieswe're already seeing the effect of this Africa,

whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle. The going was tough,

and study forests and other vegetation. He suggested they give it a go. So, in 2009, the pair packed away their machetes

In less than a week, the team collected more data than they had in a quarter of century of hacking their way through the jungle.

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

So, in the case of areas covered in a forest canopy such as in Caracol, some of the pulses will hit the top of tree canopy, some the middle, others the forest floor.

Software can then be used to remove the points above the ground, according to University of Alabama archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak,

This leaves a detailed"digital elevation  model of the hidden forest floor with the ability to pick out features as small as 20cm across."

and the thousand other misfortunes that an expedition to the jungle can encounter. Fisher, however, puts it more bluntly:"

also currently obscured by forests. Other targets include Sri lanka, India and other sites around Southeast asia.

"However, some parts of the world, including The himalayas and the arctic forests of North america, still show very limited impact by humans.

And part of the reason that countless teams over the last 100 years have probed forests, mountains, jungles and islands from The himalayas to Borneo in search of them.

Although humans had a significant impact on the natural world oe by using fires to clear forestry

and the trappings of life has depleted the forests, polluted rivers and soils and even carved the tops of mountains.

I look into a forest beside the road and see a riot of depth, every tree standing out from all the others,

like shading, perspective and occlusion (if you look at a forest while moving your head, the trees that are farthest away will blink in

"I enjoy looking out at the world and seeing some things in front of others and looking at the forest and the trees,

and too few carbon sinks such as forests), although whether that's a two-,three, -or four-degree threshold,

Whilst in the deep, lush forests of the Congo Basin having enough well-trained people to monitor illegal tree felling

 Getting extremebut the deepest forests of the Congo Basin may provide a glimpse of where citizen science could be heading.

vast regions of forest in the Congo Basin were sold divided up and to multinational companies to mine resources.

But by the mid-2000s, many of these companies wanted FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification to signify products that are harvested from responsibly and verified sources,

The wooden stick my local Nepali guide, Siteram, is carrying does little to reassure me as we follow the enormous prints through the dry forest of Bardia National park in the far-western lowlands of Nepal, home to the country's largest remaining

around 38 square miles (100 square kilometres) of forest is conserved, including other endangered animals such as rhinos,

Consumers are urged not to buy timber products made from tiger-inhabited forests, such as Asia Pulp & Paper brands accused by the WWF and Greenpeace of rainforest destruction in Sumatra.

With a massive bound, the enormous flame-coloured beast leaps away, disappearing deep inside the forest.

Farmers are forced then to seek new soil, often by invading forests. If we want to preserve the few remaining forests and other diverse ecosystems around the world,

we are going to have to better manage our existing agricultural land. Deforestation is a major driver of soil loss.

rather than relying on what fuel grew in forests and the continual recycling of biomatter,

There are now more trees on farmland than in forests, for example, and if we were to weigh all of Earth's land vertebrates,

whether it is about'peak soil',peak timber','peak silver','peak fish','peak oil'or'peak freshwater,

says Stephanie Forest, a spokeswoman for Kimberly-clark. Sometimes, inventions arise in a moment of frustration or anger.

#How the Most Symbolic American Bird Got the Name Turkey Turkey For a species of bird found only in the forests of North america and so symbolic of a U s. holiday,

and encountered a large woodland bird that looked a bit like the Guinea fowl fowl theyd grown fond of eating back in England perhaps out of confusion that the two were the same species,

William Ripple, a professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems at Society at OSU, and an international expert in the study of large predators such as wolves and cougars. oewere now finding that there are many more similarities between marine and terrestrial ecosystems than weve realized,

In this study, Ripple and collaborator Aaron Wirsing, a researcher with the School of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, compared

the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the worlds farmers expand croplands at the expense of native ecosystem such as forests.

where expanding agriculture often comes at the expense of the tropical forests that act as massive carbon sinks because of their rich diversity and abundance of plant life.

a UW-Madison graduate student and the lead author of the new study. oetropical forests store a tremendous amount of carbon,

and when a forest is cleared, not only do you lose more carbon, but crop yields are not nearly as high as they are in temperate areas. oethis creates a kind of double whammy for a lot of tropical agriculture:

#First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Perus Amazon Image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones,

and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation

and emitted by land-use practices in Perus Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology,

And the images may help pave the way for a new United nations monitoring system to curb deforestation and forest degradation.

or REDD, initiative could create financial incentives to reduce carbon emissions from forest destruction and overuse,

in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund and the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment. oewhat were showing here for the first time is an ability to not only map the carbon that is in the forest,

and protect forests where many wild insects are collected. oei can see a step-by-step process to wider implementation.

and comes in exotic shades of green and lavender like shag carpeting made in a jungle.

Thats why there is an advocacy of returning to forestry...Excursion is the souls relaxation and banquet...

and the large black and orange butterflies they turn into in a red maple forest. Mr Mays, said:

The habitat was a spicebush stand amidst a red maple forest. I was at this site looking specifically for the caterpillars.

Jonathan Forester, a distiller and spirits consultant in upstate New york, reckons that there are up to 200,000 home distillers brewing away in the U s.

with few getting a score of over 70 out of 100, says Forester. oeacross the board,

offering low-cost oemicroinsurance packages to the upwardly mobile Hindu hinterland. Up and down the narrow roads here, billboards tap into small-town and rural dreams.

They only collect dead wood. Even a carpenter waits patiently for the tree to fall.

and the bird was returned to the woods unharmed. Turkey-human confrontations are sometimes comical. New jersey Turnpike drivers were befuddled by wild turkeys hanging out at tollbooths.

either from wood or from stone, on most continents. Interestingly, the walls of the kites are not high enough to actually block the animals.

Biblical scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been. Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands,

#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Kenya Forest Services workers use branches to put out a fire at Karura forest in Nairobi.

Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:

then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. oethe heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,

he said. oeonce the forest station receives the alert, the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire.

Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land. Thirty-five percent of the already heavily deforested Mau Forest Complex was lost to fire, according to Noor Hassan Noor, an administrator in Kenyas Rift valley province.

Noor called the new fire reporting device a potentially useful part of Kenyas effort to keep forest fires in check. oethis is an interesting invention

Rather, an email printed on a piece of paper from sustainably sourced wood can help keep areas covered in trees raised for the papermills,

There is significant evidence that our growing preference for digital media is having a profoundly negative impact on our forests and the health of our rivers.

Computers, cellular networks and data centers are connected to the destruction of over 600 square miles of forest in the U s. because of their ravenous consumption of electricity.

distal concerns about destruction of the environment and the decline our forests will soon become a harsh and uncomfortable reality.

#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,

A trio of visionaries launched the Sahara Forest Project: their proposal to combine two innovative technologies, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) and Seawater Greenhouses,

The Sahara Forest Project is one of the first projects weve seen that proposes not only to combine technologies to optimise performance and production

Positive Collaboration The most exciting aspect of the Sahara Forest Project is not specifically the use of these technologies.

How will the Sahara Forest Project work? These CSP/Seawater Greenhouse technologies will work together at a location some distance from the north coast of Africa, hopefully at a point below sea level

Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:

In conclusion the Sahara Forest Project works on many levels. By combining the benefits of Concentrated Solar power

Fisheries and Forestry and several state agencies said they were aware of the projection and had funding,

#Amazing Tree house Hotels Cedar Creek Treehouse From The swiss Family Robinsons massive forest hideaway to the Berenstein Bears oeno Boys Allowed backyard version,

using reclaimed wood, low-energy devices, and natural soaps on their properties. Pics) At this Washington state treehouse (pictured above), for example,

Explore the jungle and the Amazon river with eco-tourism adventures and refuel after a long day at open-air restaurants stocked with local food.

built in indigenous forests, they offer lush breezes, sweeping views, and plenty of privacy. The hotel also bills itself as oelow density and low impact, catching rainwater for drinking, using eco-friendly detergent for towels and linens,

Canopy Resort The six treehouses that make up Australias Canopy resort are crafted furnished with pieces from local rainforest wood

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And biomass burning which occurs mainly as a result of tropical forest fires, deforestation, savannah and shrub fires emits large amounts of organic carbon particles that block solar radiation.

caught on camera for the first time ever, stalking through the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Borneo The Sundaland clouded leopard,

The leopard, a healthy-looking animal a metre long (3 feet) and weighing about 40 kilograms (90 pounds) was caught on video at night at the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysian Borneos Sabah

and in small numbers in areas of logged forest. But environmentalists say that the clouded leopard faces the threat of poaching

Azlan said Dermakot Forest Reserve, a 500 square kilometre (190 square mile) area which had been logged commercially

Azlan said the research team was oesurprised to find all five cat species in Dermakot and four of them in the neighbouring Tangkulap Forest Reserve.

#Forests Are Growing Faster, Ecologists Discover; Climate Change Appears to Be accelerated Driving Growth Forest in Maryland.

Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow.

However, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United states are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years.

For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland.

Parkers tree censuses have revealed that the forest is packing on weight at a much faster rate than expected.

the forest is growing an additional 2 tons per acre annually. That is the equivalent of a tree with a diameter of 2 feet sprouting up over a year.

Forests and their soils store the majority of the Earths terrestrial carbon stock. Small changes in their growth rate can have significant ramifications in weather patterns, nutrient cycles

Assessing how a forest is changing is no easy task. Forest ecologists know that the trees they study will most likely outlive them.

One way they compensate for this is by creating a oechronosequence a series of forests plots of the same type that are at different developmental stages.

At SERC Parker meticulously tracks the growth of trees in stands that range from 5 to 225 years old.

and Mcmahon to verify that there was accelerated growth in forest stands young and old. More than 90%of the stands grew two to four times faster than predicted from the baseline chronosequence.

By grouping the forest stands by age, Mcmahon and Parker were also able to determine that the faster growth is a recent phenomenon.

If the forest stands had been growing this quickly their entire lives, they would be much larger than they are.

He specializes in the data-analysis side of forest ecology. oewalking in the woods helps but so does looking at the numbers,

Parker and Mcmahon wanted to know why it might be made happening. oewe a list of reasons these forests could be growing faster

Parker and Mcmahon suggest that a combination of these three factors has caused the forests accelerated biomass gain.

Parker thinks there is every reason to believe his study sites are representative of the Eastern deciduous forest,

He and Mcmahon hope other forest ecologists will examine data from their own tree censuses to help determine how widespread the phenomenon is.

an Ecuadorian botanist working with both the Smithsonian Institution and Finding Species. Perhaps the most impressive statistic of all is that a single hectare of forest in Yasunã is projected to contain 100,000 insect species. According to eminent entomologist Dr

Article continues below oeone of our most important findings about Yasunã is that small areas of forest harbor extremely high numbers of animals

said Dr. Matt Finer of Save Americas Forests. oefor example, the Yasunã region is predicted to maintain wet,

#Northern Forests Do Not Benefit from Lengthening Growing season, Study Finds Forest in Finland. Forests in northern areas are stunted,

verging on the edge of survival. It has been anticipated that climate change improves their growth conditions.

A study published in Forest Ecology and Management journal shows that due to their genetic characteristics trees are unable to properly benefit from the lengthening growing season.

Furthermore, the researchers were surprised to find that the mortality of established trees considerably promotes the adaptation of forests to the changing environment.

In cooperation with colleagues at the Universities of Oulu and Potsdam Anna Kuparinen, Docent at the University of Helsinkis Faculty of Biological and Environmental sciences, simulated forest growth from southern to northern Finland.

A meteorological dispersal model was applied to describe the spread of pollen and seeds in the atmosphere.

It is estimated that after hundred years from now northern forests will substantially lag behind the speed of growth that would be enabled by their environment.

The existing trees in northern forests will survive in a warmer climate better than before but, at the same time,

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and imported wood from all over the world. Oh, and it cost $7 million. Nescaf Treehouse:

The skin is waterproof and strong enough to take the impacts that come with life in a dynamic environment such as the forest.

which Mr. Allen completed in January in the Mount Airy Forest park in Cincinnati, is a typical Forever Young project.

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which you just don t get in woodland. Because sounds bounce and travel in different ways, birds have to use songs that can cope with this#.

#The study, published in the PLOS One journal, also found that urban birds songs were heard more clearly in woodland than those of forest-dwelling birds,

In woodland where trees and leaves obscure the view, many species of songbird can tell how far away a rival is degraded by how its song is.

#says Keith Brouillard, owner of Raleigh, N c. s Carolina Forestry, a consulting group that helps manage timber land for private owners.

Kudzu is a nuisance and almost impossible to get rid of.##The vine is virtually impervious to herbicides, chain saws and even fire.

The monkey was spotted in a forest protectively nuzzling and grooming the ginger kitten, making sure no harm came to it.

The extraordinary sight was captured by amateur photographer Anne Young while on a holiday to the Monkey Forest Park in Bali s Ubud region...

Earlier this year Malone passed fellow media mogul Ted Turner to become America s Biggest Landowner with 2. 2 million acres, thanks to a giant investment in timberland in New england.

shoving aside ranchers and timber magnates, some of whom have owned their acreage for generations. He entered the list at No. 5 after buying New mexico s 453-square-mile Bell Ranch in 2010,

the list includes the usual family timber dynasties as well as the owners of the King Ranch in Texas, once considered unimaginably huge but now,

The forest products company, now entering its third generation of Emmerson management, is the second largest U s. timber producer

and works closely with the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve species on its land.

they ll plant some 28 million seedlings in their forests this year. The No. 6 landowners are the Singleton family of New mexico with 1. 1 million acres.

The Pingree family of Maine are eighth with 830,000 acres of timberland. Like the King family, the Pingrees started with a patriarch in the shipping business, David Pingree,

but made his fortune in Washington timber. Kroenke, who owns the St louis rams and the Denver nuggets, owns the Cedar Creek and PV Ranches as well as the Q Creek Land & Livestock Co. in Colorado,

At that location Podponics will be just two miles from the Forest Park produce terminal#the single largest distribution center for produce in the region.

scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago.

#Worldâ##s forests absorb 40%of manmade fossil fuel emissions Forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.

Researchers at the University of Leeds found forests absorb nearly 40 per cent of man made fossil fuel emissions every year.

The first study to look at all the worlds forests together found that established forests, from boreal forests in the north to tropical rainforests in the south, absorb 8. 8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.

Scientists work out how much carbon is being absorbed by measuring the density of wood height and width of different tree species over time.

A further 6 billion tons is mopped up#by newly planted forests around the world. However 10.8 billion tonnes is released as a consequence of deforestation as trees are chopped down

The study showed that forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.

from their outright destruction to the much more subtle impacts on even the most remote forests caused by global changes to the environment.

which highlights the critical role forests play in the global cycling of carbon and therefore the speed and severity of future climate change.

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