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1.Trees Ontario celebrates planting 10 million trees (thegreenpages.ca)
With the spring 2010 tree planting season coming to a close, Trees Ontario is recognizing the significance of the planting of 10 million trees under its programs since 2004.
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2.Logging deal expected in Canada's northern forest - (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Some of Canada's largest forestry firms and environmental groups are expected to unveil a landmark deal on Tuesday to end their battle over logging in the country's massive northern forest.
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3.Rideout residents seek heritage protection for neighbourhood tree - (lotwenterprise.com)
Mac Morrison measures the towering eastern cottonwood poplar that he believes is the largest and oldest example of the species in Ontario. Morrison says the tree should be protected as a local heritage value and promoted as a tourist attraction
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4.San Francisco Launches First Crowd-Sourced Tree Census (inhabitat.com)
Joined by the California Department of Forestry and the local nonprofit Friends of the Urban Forest, the city unveiled Urban Forest Map, a website that will allow residents to enter their neighborhood trees in the urban count
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5.AbitibiBowater hopes to recover at least $13.8 million from sale of idled mills (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Insolvent newsprint giant AbitibiBowater's move to unload more mothballed assets could see it recover at least $13.8 million from the sale of four paper mills in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick
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6.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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7.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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8.Photos : Xmas Tree Carnage (lessblingbling.blogspot.com)
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9.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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10.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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11.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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12.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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13.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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14.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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15.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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16.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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17.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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18.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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19.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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20.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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21.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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22.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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23.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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24.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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25.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.