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  • This Colorado ranch-made-lab is turning beetle-kill trees into lumber in the name of forest health

    July 11, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Blanca, Colorado

    The Trinchera Blanca Ranch is setting an example for successful forest management in the face of drought and other challenges. A nearby sawmill processes wood from the ranch into lumber, generating revenue, creating jobs, and giving a new life to at-risk trees. While the investment funds put into the ranch makes it a less accessible solution for all, the ranch is nonetheless lauded for its use of technology and sustainable management practices.

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  • How Baltimore is saving urban forests – and its city

    June 10, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore’s urban forest is one of the best-protected in the country. Since a 2006 scientific analysis of Baltimore’s trees, the city has become a leader in tracking and preserving green space and using data to shed light on the interaction between greenery, temperature, safety, and more.

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  • Palawan's indigenous women lead sustainable upland farming, forest protection

    June 01, 2019 |

    Rappler |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Palawan

    Empowering women to practice sustainable agriculture promotes resilience and enables communities to protect biodiversity. The Kusor Upland Farmer’s Association, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, gives farmers an alternative to wildlife poaching and slash-and-burn agriculture by promoting sustainable, organic farming. The KUFA participates in workshops and farming demonstrations to teach women how to grow root vegetables such as yams for additional income as an alternative to more ecologically damaging practices.

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  • ‘If we don't burn it, nature will': Georgia blazes old fears, leads nation in prescribed fire

    May 28, 2019 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, Macon, Georgia

    Prescribed fire is a way to protect forest ecosystems by starting fires in a controlled and sustainable way. The practice limits out of control forest fires and promotes the growth of important species. In Georgia, a leader of prescribed fire in the Southeast and the country, successful fire management is hoping to tip forest services nationally in favor of prescribed burn treatment and away from mostly focusing on fire suppression.

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  • An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

    May 22, 2019 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio Branco, Acre

    This story examines the well-publicized climate-change strategy of carbon credits: the idea that a CO₂-emitting company could offset its emissions by funding anti-logging efforts, effectively "saving" the equivalent amount of carbon. However, as it turns out, despite its popularity, most carbon credit programs do not actually work or, worse, may do more harm than good. This article details the shortcomings of this attempted solution to the effects of global warming.

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  • Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?

    April 25, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Scituate, Rhode Island

    A dark synergy of extreme weather and emboldened pests could imperil vast stretches of woodland. Foresters are only starting to wrestle with solutions.

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  • Make America Graze Again

    April 22, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    In Nashville, a city better known for its music than its wildlife, a flock of sheep has become a tool for environmental preservation. It’s a way to “manage invasive vegetation in a safe, ecologically sensitive and cost-effective way.” Part of a movement known as “targeted grazing,” this method of preserving wildlife without chemicals has spread across America and Europe.

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  • A women's squad in Odisha defends its forest for 20 years

    March 21, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Gundalba, Odisha

    Biodiversity and forest cover in Gundalba rebounded after a women-led group started using whistles and rotational patrols to scare away timber smugglers and woodcutters. The group also helped neighboring villages coordinate fuelwood gathering and avoid conflicts.

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  • The Feat in Hojancha, the Town that Lost its Forest

    January 21, 2019 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Hojancha, Guanacaste

    In 1976, the Costa Rican city Hojancha preserved only 2% of its land as forest, and as a result their water supply (the Río Nosara river basin) dried up from the lack of vegetation. Sixteen years into the crisis, two friends conceived and ran an initiative to reforest the land by asking every family in the city to donate ¢1,000 a month until they could buy back the land in full from the ranchers who owned it. Now, the land is thriving again, though the project of regrowing the forest continues still today.

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  • The Economics Of Managing Healthier Forests

    December 12, 2018 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Weaverville, Washington

    In the western United States, a couple nonprofits are working to kill two birds with one stone: reducing catastrophic wildfires while creating a profitable (yet sustainable) market for harvested wood. Yet these management techniques have yet to prove economically viable.

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