Did you know that it takes, on average, about 180 years to form 1 cubic centimeter of soil? That is 2.3 times the life expectancy for Americans – all to produce a small quantity of soil that fits in a ...

STANFORD, CA, July 11, 2023—Forests across the United States are major contributors to the fight against climate change, annually removing damaging excess carbon from the atmosphere equivalent to ...

Called both a science and an art by those in the profession, silviculture is the practice of growing, managing and protecting healthy and sustainable forests. While growing trees may seem ...

Forests across the United States are major contributors to the fight against climate change, annually removing damaging excess carbon from the atmosphere equivalent to approximately 13 percent of ...

Purdue University has received $12 million of a $35 million project led by the American Forest Foundation and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities ...

BACKGROUND. As part of its climate agenda, the Biden Administration is promoting “climate-smart” agricultural and forestry practices that can advance climate goals by sequestering carbon and/or ...

Forest practices are defined broadly as "any activity conducted on or directly pertaining to forest land and relating to growing, harvesting or processing timber ..." (RCW 76.09.020(10)) A forest ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 11, 2021) A Portland State University (PSU) study finds that pesticides from the forestry industry threaten clams, mussels, oysters (bivalves) along the Oregon state coast.

Selective logging is widespread in tropical forests, yet its extent, intensities, and impacts are poorly understood. Here we developed estimates of annual timber harvest volumes, carbon emissions, and ...

Did you know that it takes, on average, about 180 years to form 1 cubic centimeter of soil? That is 2.3 times the life expectancy for Americans – all to produce a small quantity of soil that fits in a ...