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Where money grows on trees: how communities across the country are using trees to put a little more green in the ground and in their pockets
If you think money doesn't grow on trees, visit Sacramento, California. Or Tucson, Arizona. Or Waverly, Iowa. These cities are among the dozens...
American Forests, 03/22/09 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Forestry co-ops take root
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Don Flournoy decided to thin a portion of his 235-acre Sugar Bush Farm, he wanted to use a...
Rural Cooperatives, 03/01/09 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Ensuring a timberland legacy: across the country, communities are uniting to protect the forests they hold dear
Melanie Parker is hunkered down on a moss-covered log at the base of a massive cedar tree. Her long legs stretch toward a tiny ephemeral spring,...
American Forests, 01/01/09 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Conservation's new conversation: in the face of unrelenting development: how to keep forests in forest?
Don't blink! By the time you open your eyes, an acre of open space in America will be gone; Plowed under, paved over, and built on. Don't blink!...
American Forests, 06/22/08 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Community group gets forestland
The checkerboard that defines Swan Valley, Montana, has a new green square. The checkerboard that defines Swan Valley, Montana, has a new green...
American Forests, 03/22/07 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Planting trees for peace: the message brought by Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize winner sounds surprisingly familiar
In the beginning, Wangari Maathai had very little to work with: Seven seedling trees, a handful of resolute women, and a powerful will to bring...
American Forests, 06/22/06 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Timberlands in turmoil: as timber companies divest, carefully managed forestland is up for grabs, and it portends an invisible—but staggering—crisis for the U.S
America's timberlands are in turmoil. From the remote backwoods to groves near small towns, forests are shrinking: 35 acres here, 500 there. The...
American Forests, 01/01/06 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
A race to reclaim forests: timber-managed land is up for sale, and forest communities are scrambling to maintain pristine environments and their way of life
Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, Anne Dahl is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white...
American Forests, 09/22/05 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Doing well by doing good; The move toward more sustainable economies involves everyone from mom and pop companies to major corporations. And the biggest surprise of all may be: its working
The new millennium has opened under a barrage of blows to Planet Earth: Shrinking forests and expanding deserts. Collapsing fisheries and...
American Forests, 03/22/04 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication -
Un-common ground: a controvery over the U.S. Forest Service's appeals process is eroding carefully wrought partnerships - Perspectives
When the 2002 fire season erupted with a 138,000-acre blaze in the Denver suburbs, it sparked a firestorm of political accusations aimed at the...
American Forests, 06/22/03 by Jane Braxton Little · More from publication
