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1.Illegal loggers hit community reforestation project in Indonesia, spurring questions about REDD (news.mongabay.com)
Illegal loggers are targeting community-managed forests in South Sumatra, renewing questions over forestry governance and law enforcement as the Indonesia prepares to capitalize on payments for conservation and reforestation under a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism known as REDD,
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2.Wilkinson Residence In Portland Is One Swanky Treehouse - Green Diary (www.greendiary.com)
Located on a flag lot, the extraordinary house is brilliantly designed to perfectly blend with the natural landscape. A steep sloping grade provided the opportunity to bring the main level of the house into the tree canopy
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3.Photos : Xmas Tree Carnage (lessblingbling.blogspot.com)
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4.Must View: Botanical Architecture (markprimack.com)
A utopian vision of habitable forests led me from Providence to London to an abandoned roadside attraction in Santa Cruz, California.
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5.Must View:Tree shapers (www.treeshapers.net)
This site is about helping people find all the different Shaped Trees around the world. We will endeavour to have, on each practitioner's page, a summary of the history of the tree shapes with which they have become involved
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6.Textures library - free surfaces for LightWave, 3ds Max (textures.forrest.cz)
All from the forest - trees, bark, moss, rock, needles, foliage in high resolution
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7.Alberta faces almost impossible task of stopping pine beetles from spreading - Yahoo! Canada News (ca.news.yahoo.com)
After destroying or infesting as many as 75 per cent of British Columbia's mature lodgepole pines, the insects have flown deep into north-central Alberta in search of more trees to ruin
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8.List of trees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)
The following is a list of trees. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction.
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9.Sudbury boasts substantial forest area (www.northernlife.ca)
Greater Sudbury is not only home to 330 lakes and abundant mineral reserves, but is also home to the Sudbury forest, a substantial forest area that generates jobs and provides an appealing experience for tourists and outdoorsmen.The Sudbury forest is 11,450 square kilometres in size, most of which is concentrated within the city of Greater Sudbury.
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10.Sudbury Forest Draft Plan (www.appefmp.mnr.gov.on.ca)
The forest management planning system for Ontario’s Crown forests is based on a forest policy and legal framework that has sustainability, public involvement, Aboriginal involvement, and adaptive management as key elements.
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11.Tree Dedications Gifts for Xmas| www.treepeople.org (www.treepeople.org)
A Tree Dedication gift starts at $25 for one tree and the recipient will receive a personalized greeting card. Multiple trees can be dedicated, or for a gift of $100 a special certificate announcing a grove of trees will be sent to the recipient.
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12.The Road to Copenhagen - A Harvester of Trees Offers to Save an Indonesian Forest - Series - NYTimes.com (www.nytimes.com)
From the air, the Kampar Peninsula in Indonesia stretches for mile after mile in dense scrub and trees. One of the world’s largest peat swamp forests, it is also one of its biggest vaults of carbon dioxide,
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13.Angry neighbour's letter led to probe on Senator (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Startled to find staffer cutting down trees on his property, former federal bureaucrat took his concerns to Parliament Hill
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14.Greenpeace takes aim at N. Ont. forest - (www.thesudburystar.com)
The English River Forest near Sioux Lookout has appeared on Greenpeace's radar.
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15.City of Edmonton :: Urban Forestry (www.edmonton.ca)
Taking care of our urban forest preserves the natural environment within our city and improves the quality of the air we breathe.
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16.Archives; The Forestry Chronicle 1925-2001 (pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
The Forestry Chronicle, first published in 1925, is the official Journal of the Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.
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17.Canadian Forest Management Database (www.glfc.forestry.ca)
A fully interactive database of scientific literature citations and abstracts related to efficacy, environmental acceptability and cost-benefits of techniques used to control competing vegetation, insects and diseases in Canadian forestry.
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18.Welcome to Carbon Trading: A primer for forest landowners. (carbon.sref.info)
There is unequivocal evidence that the concentration of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere. This increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of forested to non-forested land uses
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19.Tree Identification Guide at arborday.org (www.arborday.org)
You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a “step-by-step” approach to arrive at the name of your tree. Once you master these skills, it will be a breeze to identify any tree
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20.treelink.org - KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERING PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY ENABLING CITIES TO SUPPORT URBAN & COMMUNITY FORESTS. (treelink.org)
TreeLink provides the knowledge and local TreeBanks offer a proactive way for anyone to act on their green intentions and support local community trees. Dollar for dollar, there is no better investment in the local environment.
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21.National Tree Benefit Calculator (www.treebenefits.com)
Trees in urban areas provide a number of important benefits. They help to clean the air, curb stormwater runoff, raise property values, sequester carbon, and reduce energy costs.
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22.Articles for ISA Arboriculture Journal (auf.isa-arbor.com)
30 years of back-issues online
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23.Forest Carbon Partnership (www.forestcarbonpartnership.org)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) assists developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation--called REDD--by providing value to standing forests.
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24.Must View:The Urban Forest Project (www.ufp-global.com)
The Urban Forest Project is a series of unprecedented outdoor banner exhibitions taking root in cities around the world. In each location, artists, designers, students and the general public will employ the idea or form of the tree to make a powerful visual statement on banners that will be displayed throughout the community.
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25.Business tree stewardship project (www.greenhere.ca)
Street trees in the City of Toronto have a life expectancy of 5 to 7 years due to the stresses placed on the tree such as concrete planting containers, hard and/or very compacted surface area, and the stress of high volumes of vehicle and pedestrian traffic.