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• Wildfire burns 750 acres near Los Angeles
Strong winds in the hills near the wine country town of St. Helena caused the fire to spread quickly. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said all evacuation orders had been lifted, allowing 100 people to return home after the ...
• Bamboo die-off threatens China's pandas
China's forestry bureau is carrying out a panda rescue drive and working with the World Wildlife Fund to try to restore panda migration paths, Xinhua said. Also Monday, Xinhua reported that a record 12 pairs of panda twins were born in captivity this ...
• Warming does have some winners
There will be — things like you’ll lose polar bears,” said economic professor Robert Mendelsohn of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. “But the idea is that they will get such large gains, especially in agriculture, that they ...
• Tree teams work to save storm-hit canopies
We're right now talking about Baton Rouge, where a large area got hammered" by Hurricane Gustav on Sept. 1, said Eric Kuehler, a technology specialist with Athens, Ga.-based Urban Forestry South, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The ...
• Berkeley tree-sitters end 21-month protest
Among the bystanders was third-year forestry major Thea Chesney. She agreed with the tree-sitters' cause, although she acknowledged that made her in the minority on campus. "It makes me really sad," she said of the felled trees. "It's just absolutely ...