C. A. Bates, Georgia Forestry Commission, Statesboro, GA 30461; S. W. Fraedrich, U.S. Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Athens, GA 30602; T. C. Harrington, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011; R. S. Cameron, Georgia Forestry Commission, Statesboro, GA 30461; R. D. Menard, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Pineville, LA 71360...

Lihu Dong 1, Lianjun Zhang 2 and Fengri Li 1,* 1 Department of Forest Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; [email protected] 2 Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), One Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA; [email protected] * Correspondenc...

In November 1998, Oregon residents voted on a ballot initiative called the Oregon Forest Conservation Initiative. Known in Oregon as Measure 64, its stated intent was to promote sustainable forest practices and protect forest ecosystems by restricting clearcut logging and the use of chemical herbicides and pesticides on all forestlands in the state (Oregon Elections Division 1998a). Oregon vote...

The sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata (Hemiptera: Tingidae), is an invasive forestry pest rapidly expanding in many countries. This pest poses a considerable threat to the urban forestry ecosystem, especially to Platanus spp. However, its molecular biology and biochemistry are poorly understood. This study reports the first C. ciliata transcriptome, encompassing three different life stages ...

1Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Fungi and Mycotoxins of Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 2Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology of Education Ministry, and School of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 3Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 4Ins...

This case study discusses the Urban Resources Initiative’s efforts to remove invasive vines from natural areas in New Haven, CT. The Initiative (URI) is primary urban forestry organization and community engagement a key feature of their programming. Working with combination local stewardship groups (“Community Greenspace”) workforce program (“GreenSkills”) for previously incarcerated individual...

This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditi...

Executive Summary This applied research effort intends to provide a rigorous empirical foundation upon which to base groupings, or clusters, of Wisconsin counties for analytical comparisons. We ask a simple question in this paper: which regions (counties) in Wisconsin are homogeneous (hence comparable) given a set of economic and demographic variables? Using the statistical techniques of princi...

in the recent years, increasing of green house gases, degradation of environment, deforestation alongside with the limitation and decreasing of ecological foot print of the earth for supplementation of human needs are the main problems of the world. the carbon dioxide gas as a main factor of world climate change, carry out the 60 percent of the global heating or greenhouse effect. the main sour...