Diversity
Hip-hop forestry with Thomas Easley
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Combining a love for both forestry and hip-hop, Thomas Easley has recruited diverse students into environmental sciences.
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Recording lures endangered bird to Wisconsin woods
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Playback project helps diversify population of endangered Kirtland’s warblers.
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New ways with wood open up building opportunities
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Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”
Art
Woods, whiskey, women and widow-makers caught in lumberjack songs
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New edition of 1926 book throws light on lumberjack life, loves and losses collected by an English professor while mostly hiking from Charlevoix, Michigan, to North Dakota.
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New tool against pollution is ancient: tree canopies
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Trees’ leafy canopies work like an umbrella over the pavement, keeping rainwater from flowing across the ground and into larger bodies of water.
Forests
Pennsylvania’s forest primeval
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Scenes from Hearts Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.
Climate change
Saving the great Northwoods may require transforming it
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As a warming climate transforms forests across the northern Great Lakes, scientists working in the iconic Minnesotan landscape are embracing the change.
Land
Minn. fire tower wins historic site designation
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Before airplanes and 911 calls became the prominent ways to discover forest fires, forests were monitored from fire lookout towers.
Forests
Emerald ash borers may increase crime, study says
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Researchers say tree loss plays a role in street crime.
Land
Public unhappy with Porcupine Mountains mining
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Highland Copper’s exploratory drilling in the Upper Peninsula has angered many Michiganders.