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US Forest Service Helps Young Adults Bring Awareness to National Forests Though a Cross-Country Adventure

July 07, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

The original slogan of the trekking group GreenXC read: Share a Ride, Tell a Story, Save a Park. Now they added and a National Forest (as in the U.S. Forest Service). This is because these young folks (all under 30), embarking on this bold transnational ride-share journey that departs July 27 th...

Forestry

High Wood Product Output Doesn’t Correlate to Higher Carbon Emissions According to US Forest Service Research

May 19, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service

A study by researchers at the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory shows that the lowest rates of deforestation and forest carbon emissions occur in global regions with the highest rates of forest product output. Counter intuitively global regions with the highest rates of deforestation...

Forestry
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