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International Year of Forests brings forest conservation to main stage

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On January 10th, 2011
Recognizing that forests can contribute to sustainable development, poverty eradication and internationally agreed upon development goals, the United Nations declared this year—"International Year of Forests." The United Nations is set to meet in New York City later this month to announce why forests matter. And meet they should, as forests face off against the double whammy of humanity’s insatiable demand for wood products coupled with climate dis
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America’s Great Cultural Revolution on Fire

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 15th, 2008
It was one of many revolutions that bubbled up during the Sixties, and for most people not a very significant one, but for those concerned with fire and wildlands it amounted to America's great cultural revolution on fire. The inaugural Tall Timbers fire ecology conference in 1962 was its opening salvo. Intellectual opposition collapsed like a wet sack. Over the winter of 1967-68 the National Park Service formally rechartered its fire policy. The Forest Service followed a decade later.

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