Archive for March, 2009

Hemlock Trees Dying Rapidly, Affecting Forest Carbon Cycle

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

ScienceDaily (Mar. 10, 2009) — New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering the carbon cycle of these forests.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226122730.htm
 

 

Maryland’s Forest Conservation Act

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

UPDATE

The Chesapeake Bay Journal - Seven Valleys,PA,USA, February 2009

 

Maryland’s Forest Conservation Act has become the impetus for a forest mitigation market in Maryland. Developers who cannot mitigate their deforestation on-site are required to mitigate off-site through landowner afforestation/reforestation credits or by paying in-lieu fees that will eventually result in this.

 

www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=3522