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Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods.   |
This Old House
C.J. Hughes |
Buying 'Green' Flooring Join the ranks of consumers who are driving the market for "sustainable" products by following these 10 options for the eco-minded remodeler. |
IDB America
July 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Mark Hertsgaard |
The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis. |
Wired
February 2007
Michael Behar |
Reservoir Logs A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Mark L. Clifford |
Rainforest Rescue Can sustainable logging succeed? A group experiment in Indonesia could show Big Timber the way. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Simon Cooper |
Global Timber Smugglers--and How You Can Stop Them This multibillion-dollar black market business occurs in more than 70 countries, and contributes to the annual destruction of more than 32 million wooded acres. Here is a Guilt-Free Wood Buyer's Guide and Tips to Buy Safe Wood. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Sue Halpern |
Road Block To stop road building and logging in the world's largest temperate rainforest, Alaskans are trying to turn tourists into activists... |
Outside
December 2007
Eric Hansen |
Stumped Two gung-ho idiots try to demonstrate that the world's last great forest + chainsaws = awesome skiing. |
Financial Advisor
September 2011
Ellie Winninghoff |
Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Ted Williams |
False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation. |
Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests. |
Outside
October 2008
Patrick Symmes |
The Cabin of My Dreams Ever fantasized about building a restful escape, with your bare hands, in some untrammeled back of beyond and it all coming together just as you'd planned? Moron. |
National Gardening
April 2000
Alex Wilson |
Naturally Rot-Resistant Woods Though sometimes hard to come by, they are nature's answer to the problem of decay |
Fast Company
June 2008
Richard Behar |
Special Report: China in Africa (Part 2) In sub-Saharan Africa, the Chinese seem to be everywhere: clearing trees in Mozambique, drilling for oil in Sudan, digging in copper mines in Zambia, opening textile factories in Kenya, prospecting for uranium in Zimbabwe, buying cobalt in the Congo, laying expressways in Angola, and more. |
Outside
March 2005
Bruce Barcott |
As a Matter of Fact, Money Does Grow on Trees With an anti-environmental backlash inflicting one defeat after another on conservationists, a band of maverick economists is riding to the rescue with a startling revelation about the true value of our natural resources: Follow the money, and you end up in a very green place. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2006
Toccoa Switzer |
Money Does Grow On Trees Timber Investment Management Organizations provide excellent diversification, and inflation-hedging attributes to mixed-asset portfolios. The investment moves inversely to stocks and bonds with little correlation to commercial real estate. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Mar/Apr 2006
Sherri Alms |
A Win/Win Proposition The Blandin Foundation championed inclusivity across sectors to promote healthy forests and communities -- and along the way won the 2006 Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Thomas J. Straka |
Does Your Client Own Timberland? - Part I Over ten million individuals and families own timberland. Is it a neglected aspect of your client's portfolio? |
This Old House
Arianne Cohen |
Professional Tree Removal Crashing through your roof is not the only hazard dead and diseased trees pose to your home -- they also steal water and light from the rest of your yard. |
This Old House
Mark Feirer |
25 Years of Innovation: Wood Flooring A quarter-century of innovation has brought a wealth of woods, finishes, and engineered products. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
T. Edward Nickens |
New Zipline Tour Helps Protect Trees (With Video!) The New River Gorge TreeTops Canopy Tour opened in May. Operated by Class VI -- Mountain River, the tour uses five sky bridges and two short hikes to link 10 twin-cable ziplines that offer more than a mile of high-wire flying. |
Smithsonian
August 2006
Michael Tennesen |
Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die. |
Smithsonian
March 2007
Joshua Hammer |
Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Matt Power |
Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Alexandra Wolfe |
Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
International Paper Turns Over a Greener Leaf? The paper giant aims to increase profitability and do more to protect the environment. Investors, sound crazy? |
This Old House
Curtis Rist |
U.S. Architecture: The Love and Lore of Log Cabins No house style exemplifies our national identity as sweetly as the humble log cabin -- just think of Lincoln's birthplace. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Bill Mann |
A Tale of Timber and Love Recent earnings at Plum Creek Timber, a Seattle-based real estate investment trust, have been pretty spectacular, as demand for timber from homebuilders and other construction remains high. |
Registered Rep.
July 6, 2012
Jennifer Popovec |
Knock on Wood Timber REITs, now unloved, anticipate strong demand, increased revenues |
This Old House
Christopher O'Connor |
We Heart Palm Coconut trees create a new flooring solution known as Durapalm. |
National Gardening
Kim Haworth |
Fire-Safe Landscaping Homes are tucked into hillside forests and perched atop grassy knolls to take advantage of spectacular views. During fire season, this is an invitation to disaster. But there are several measures you can take to reduce the immediate risk of fire danger around your own home. |
Fast Company
April 2000
Anna Muoio |
Where There's Smoke It Helps to Have a Smoke Jumper If you spend too much of your time "putting out fires," then take some advice from master smoke jumper Wayne Williams. He'll teach you how to think clearly, to act decisively, to work precisely -- and to solve problems before they burn out of control. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Rain Forest Protagonist Local people first saw a new reserve in Brazil's rainforest as a threat, but are now optimistic that the change will help them preserve their way of life while offering some economic stability. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees. |
Outside
March 2010
John Bradley |
Spurning Rubber The government's ban on bicycles in wilderness areas is dead wrong. |
Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Ben Elgin |
A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works. |
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2009
Joseph Truini |
5 Do-it-Yourself Flooring Options Flooring alternatives are explored with the drawbacks and advantages of each. |
Salon.com
March 6, 2002
Jennifer Hile |
Hangin' with the 'tans in Borneo Deep in the Indonesian rain forest, our reporter braves tribal war to discover why orangutans may be driven to extinction by America's love for pool cues... |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2011
Jacob Roche |
This Investment Keeps Growing Even When the Economy Stumbles Timber REITs and exchange traded funds make an interesting alternative to traditional investments. |
