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Reviving the majestic redwood forests
A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws.
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Climate threatens carbon forest offset projects
Regions most at risk of losing forest carbon through fire, climate stress, or insect damage are precisely those regions where many forest carbon offset projects are located, report researchers.
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New study sounds alarm, provides hope for the Northwest's Western red cedars
Research links cedar death to climate, details which trees are dying, which are surviving and shows how the species might be saved.
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‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard
More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought.
Massive die-off hits fir trees across Pacific Northwest
Labeled “Firmageddon,” by researchers, the drought-driven “mortality event” is the largest ever recorded in the region.
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A notorious invasive plant shows promise in green construction
Imported from Japan in 1876, kudzu strangles forests and farmland throughout the South. Could it build cities instead?
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Is the wood-wide web real? Scientists debate whether trees really talk
From Ted Lasso to TED Talks, the theory of the “wood-wide web” is everywhere, and some scientists argue that it is overblown and unproven.
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