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BDS Lunch & Learn: Trees in Development Situations Friday, August 26, 2016
2016-08-12 23:38:14| PortlandOnline
Friday, August 26, 2016 from Noon - 1:00 pm, Bureau of Development Services - 1900 Building 1900 SW 4th Avenue, Portland OR, 97201 - 2nd Floor Room 2500A.
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Consumers Energy Works with Michigan Communities to Remove Trees from Power Lines
2016-08-09 17:26:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Working with homeowners and businesses in communities across Michigan, Consumers Energy is focusing on delivering energy reliably by clearing trees away from power lines. read more
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Trees' surprising role in the boreal water cycle quantified
2016-07-21 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Approximately 25 to 50 percent of a living tree is made up of water, depending on the species and time of year. The water stored in trees has previously been considered just a minor part of the water cycle, but a new study by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists shows otherwise. Research published this week in Nature Scientific Reports is the first to show that the uptake of snowmelt water by deciduous trees represents a large and previously overlooked aspect of the water balance in boreal...
New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production
2016-07-14 12:56:03| Green Car Congress
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Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass
2016-07-12 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In northern New York state, logger Greg Hemmerich and his crew are clearing out an old pasture at the edge of a forest. "There's a lot of balsam, lot of spruce, thorn apple trees," Hemmerich says. "Ninety percent of this lot is low-grade wood." In other words, it's no good for furniture or paper or sawmills. But he'll make $80,000 to run the wood through a chipper and truck the chips to a nearby biomass plant. "Everybody said that green power was supposed to be the wave of the future," Hemmerich...
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