Janaki Alavalapati, head of the Department of Forestry at Virginia Tech, speaks on how harvesting biomass – trees and plants – for fuel might improve the health of forests.
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Apr 10, 2009
Energy
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Forest scientist Janaki Alavalapati talks about how a forest-based energy industry might boost rural economies.
Jan 15, 2009
Food
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Listen to Jo Pierce talk about his family’s 2,000-acre forest in Maine, and the importance of respecting the land and preserving wildlife habitat.
Jan 07, 2009
Energy
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Janaki Alavalapati says that forest biomass – small diameter trees and brush cleared from forests – can be used to create liquid fuel.
Jo Pierce owns a private forest in rural Maine. When you’re working with trees, he says, you have to think on the timescale of a tree.
Dec 15, 2008
Earth
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Neil Sampson, president of a company that consults on forests and climate, said that private forest owners play an essential role in keeping wooded land growing and healthy…. and Americans who don’t own wooded land still reap the benefits of forests.
Dec 01, 2008
Biodiversity
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According to Neil Sampson, an international forestry consultant, forest ecosystems are always in a state of transformation, but climate change might speed up the process.
Nov 30, 2008
Food
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The president of a forestry consulting firm talks about the market for carbon offsets – tradeable measures of a forest’s proven capacity to store carbon. Find out how it works.
Nov 12, 2008
Biodiversity
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Robert Bonnie of the Environmental Defense Fund talks about an agreement that would require individual landowners to work to benefit an endangered species on their land. In return, landowners wouldn’t be subject to more regulation.
Nov 12, 2008
Biodiversity
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A land conservationist says that good stewardship by private forest landowners in the U.S. can be a heroic effort, because it can require the rejection of sometimes lucrative financial offers.
