Forestry December 2005 Archive

Company to Make Antiviral Drug from Used Christmas Trees A small Canadian generic drug maker is embarking on the ultimate recycling venture - using 500,000 discarded Christmas trees to extract a ... Read More

Entrepreneurs log the unwanted urban forest City trees cut down because of disease, age, or development have usually been sent to the dump. But increasingly, according to the Christian Science ... Read More

NPR : California's Capital Sees Big Benefits in More Trees Sacramento, California claims to have more trees per capita than any other city in the world - including Paris, France. ... Read More

USDA - Forest Service Supports Local Schools and Roads With $380 Million WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2005 - Twenty five percent of Forest Service revenues from timber sales, mineral resources and ... Read More

San Francisco in the Christmas Tree Rental Business Growing real trees for Christmas only to cut them down after a week or two of decorative display is a waste of valuable ... Read More

Fall always brings a renewed interest in the outdoors. My email increases from people interested in finding an outdoor job and specifically how one can work in forestry and ... Read More

With over 3,100 votes cast, Husqvarna is the chain saw of choice as voted on by About Forestry readers. Here are the percentages: Husqvarna - 41%; Stihl - 40%; Jonsered ... Read More

Fire and forests go back to the prehistoric. Our temperate world's forest ecosystem has developed with fire as its preeminent partner. This is as it should be. Only when man ... Read More

Fifteen women and one gentleman contributed test recipes for a fire lookout cookbook in 1937. The recipes could all be made successfully with the food furnished by the U. S. ... Read More