Enviro & Legislation

The State of the World’s Forests 2022: Forest Pathways for Green Recovery and Building Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Economies (FAO, 2022); https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9360en Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020: Main Report (FAO, 2020); https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9825en Barua, S. K., Lehtonen, P. & Pahkasalo, T. Plantation vision: potentials, challenges and policy options for global industrial forest plantation development. Int. For.

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to block a logging project near Eugene. Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Willamette Riverkeeper are challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s authorization of the 4,600-acre Big League logging project. The groups alleged the agency failed to take a hard look at the project’s impacts under the National Environmental

(Bloomberg) — This article is part of the Bloomberg Green series Timber Town, which looks at the global rise of timber as a low-carbon building material. Deep in Colville National Forest in eastern Washington state, Russ Vaagen is pointing to a delineation between woods that have been selectively thinned and those that haven’t. One side is light-filled

Analysis of wood use strategies in a UK context Differentiating value chains using LCA and SCS requires high-resolution data—achieved here using a detailed case study of the UK domestic forestry value chain. UK softwood production and processing supplies around 20% of domestic needs; the UK relies heavily on imports but exports very little24. Since the

This story is republished with the permission of AL.com, the largest news provider in Alabama and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in 2023. The world’s largest wood pellet producer has applied for a major clean energy tax credit for building a new plant in Epes, Ala., but critics say burning wood pellets for energy won’t reduce