Recreation
Lanterns light winter nights at this Michigan state park
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Hartwick Pines State Park has new winter programming that promises to show the park’s old growth forest in a new light.
Climate
Plant trees, store carbon, save the environment
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Michigan’s 3.9 million acres of state forests could be recruited for a fight to limit climate change by storing carbon emissions.
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.
Capital News Service
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.
Capital News Service
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.