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A prestigious award program that celebrates voluntary conservation by farmers and forestland owners is coming to New England. The Leopold Conservation Award® recognizes landowners who inspire…
A fisherman who caught a 400-pound bluefin tuna out of season and dumped its headless carcass in the woods paid a steep price for his misdeeds. On the day his trial was about to begin, Harold…
A Virginia-based group has acquired three forested properties totaling nearly 17,900 acres in Hancock and Washington counties. The Conservation Fund acquired the properties on Tuesday from H.C.…
Science Cafe NH in Concord last night had a great discussion about the environmental aspects of using wood to create heat and electricity (sometimes bad, sometimes good – like so much in life).…
Land owners wondering how to protect their wooded property while continuing to benefit from sustainable timber harvests now have another option: the New England Forestry Foundation of Littleton,…
1836 Boston native Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes the essay “Nature,” which—in laying out the fundamentals of the philosophical movement he cofounded, Transcendentalism—describes the benefits…
A North Carolina manufacturer plans to create more than 100 jobs by becoming Maine’s first producer of a composite wood strong enough to replace concrete and steel in high-rise buildings.…
Considering that New Hampshire is smack dab in the middle of a region sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of biomass – i.e., we have lots of trees to sell – it’s a little weird that our logging…
We like to blame a lot of things for climate change—namely coal and cow farts—but if we were to search for a worthy scapegoat, architects might end up looking in the mirror. The building sector…
A Forest Service-funded grant helped uncover a potential economic boon for the Northeast and elsewhere in the United States through a new wood technology. Northeastern Area State & Private…
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The state has identified forests in western Massachusetts where wood could be used to build buildings throughout Boston and even New York City. It’s called cross…
