The Oregonian reported yesterday that a for-profit subsidiary of Portland-based Ecotrust will begin selling carbon credits from the land it owns in the Pacific Northwest. The deal, to be announced today, is a milestone in Ecotrust Forest Management’s long-term plan to purchase hundreds of thousands of formerly clear-cut acres from Alaska through Northern California using [...]
The Wilderness Society recently distributed its ‘Top 10 Carbon Storing National Forests in America,’ naming Willamette National Forest No. 1. An excerpt from Wilderness.org: According to United States Forest Service data, the ten national forests that store the most carbon per forested acre are all located in Western Oregon, Western Washington and Southeast Alaska. The [...]
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The iPhone application for street tree lovers finally exists. Of course, presently, it only exists for New York City street tree lovers. Trees Near You chronicles all of the 500,000 street trees in New York City, providing species type, size and the estimated environmental and economic benefits provided. As shown on the application’s Web site, [...]
Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry. Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project. Calling [...]
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