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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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  • Can ‘Big Data' Help Fight Big Fires? Firefighters Are Betting on It

    June 24, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    FireMap is a new program that uses real-time data to predict the direction of wildfires. In Southern California, where the tool is being tested, there is a huge potential for positive impact - fires in California swept across about 1.7 million acres in 2018. FireMap is built off an older technology, but this one is faster, more accurate, and has greater potential to scale.

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  • Can planting billions of trees save the planet?

    June 19, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England

    Across the world, TreeSisters is partnering with local organizations to help reforestation efforts. The nonprofit is centered on bolstering local, community-based, and usually women-led initiatives in countries like Kenya and Madagascar. The organization cites the fact that women are most often the ones interacting with the environment, and so raising awareness and taking action in such a gendered way can leverage the most impact.

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  • The rise of wildfire-resilient communities

    June 17, 2019 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sisters, Oregon

    Coordination and planning can prove to be the best defensive measures against wildfires. Funded by the US Forest Service, the Community Planning Assistance for Wild Program (CPAW) promotes community fire adaptation, including measures like prescribed burns. Policymakers and city planners enrolled in CPAW benefit from teaming up with foresters, economists, and other experts to model risk and mitigate the impact of fires.

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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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  • A prayer for trees: For Kenyan tribes, saving forests is a sacred duty

    May 29, 2019 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Forole

    Communities around Kenya address national deforestation by relying on individuals to make changes in the way they use timber as well as to plant trees to repopulate suffering forests. Many towns set strict guidelines about timber sourcing, requiring residents to source from specific groves outside community boundaries; others teach children from a young age that trees are sacred and not to be cut down.

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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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  • Message scent: Douglas fir beetles detoured from Ouray forest by pheromone packets

    May 27, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Ouray, Colorado

    By combining biomimicry with biodiversity, Colorado’s forests have kept damaging fir beetles at bay. The city of Ouray, Colorado, and the Colorado State Forest Service have been working with the help of volunteers to apply chemical pheromones to protect Douglas firs from the damaging beetles. The pheromones mimic a warning produced by the beetles, discouraging them from settling on the tree. The pheromones are applied by hand, requiring teams of trained volunteers.

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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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