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ESF Makes Princeton Review's 'Best Value' List ESF is one of the nation's "Best Value" colleges and universities according to The Princeton Review. (ESF) 20 Feb 2012 - 19:53 UTC

New forestry projects show promise in Southern Oregon, professors say Initial results from experimental timber projects in southern Oregon indicate it's possible to retain old trees, protect watersheds and wildlife and still provide jobs, a pair of forestry professors said. Jerry Franklin from the University of Washington and Norm Johnson of Oregon State University released a report summarizing their work so far on three pilot projects on Bureau of Land Management forests. Visit the websites: ... (OSU COF) 16 Feb 2012 - 21:53 UTC

Dan Phillips to Speak at NYS Green Building Conference Dan Phillips, an environmentally and socially conscious designer/builder, will be the plenary speaker for the 10th Annual New York State Green Building Conference. (ESF) 14 Feb 2012 - 20:01 UTC

SEP Fellowship Brings Green Business Expertise to Syracuse The Sustainable Enterprise Partnership has announced that Michael Lenox, the Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business Administration, will be the SEP's 2012 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow. (ESF) 14 Feb 2012 - 13:28 UTC

Celebrating Forests for People United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat International Year of Forests Awards and Closing Ceremony Celebrating Forests for People —————— Thursday, 9 February 2012 This morning at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Ms. Jan McAlpine, Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat and keynote speaker at our recent Yale Chapter ISTF conference on Strategies for Landscape-Scale Restoration in [...] (Yale School of Forestry & Environment) 09 Feb 2012 - 21:03 UTC

Foresters keep close eye on tussock moth activity State and federal forest officials are bracing for a continuation of last year’s Douglas fir tussock moth outbreak that lightly defoliated fir and spruce trees in the Blue Mountains. A news release from the Oregon State University Extension Office in La Grande said light defoliation was mapped last year across 9,000 acres of the Umatilla National Forest, including 7,800 acres in Washington and 1,200 acres in Oregon. Visit the website: ... (OSU COF) 09 Feb 2012 - 16:58 UTC

Seeing the forest for the trees On a steep, south-facing mountain slope about 20 miles east of Sweet Home, two dozen people, including OSU forestry professor Klaus Puettmann, are talking ideas for the management of 1,600 acres of mostly 40- to 110-year-old Douglas firs.  They represent the U.S. Forest Service, Oregon State University, private timber land owners, environmental groups and loggers. Visit the websites: Full... (OSU COF) 06 Feb 2012 - 21:59 UTC

Saving African Great Apes Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller populations. Based on their findings, Sadie Ryan (ESF) and Peter Walsh (Cambridge) suggest that the great ape conservation community pursue and promote treatment and vaccination as weapons in the arsenal for fighting the decline of African apes. (ESF) 06 Feb 2012 - 19:41 UTC

Designing Wildlife Corridors in the Digital Age Development is squeezing animals into smaller pockets of land, and without sufficient planning and protection, individual animal populations could find themselves increasingly isolated.  Claire Montgomery, a forest economist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, has been developing methods to address both animal populations and timber management strategies.  "I was beginning to look at problems where uncertainty played a much bigger role than it had... (OSU COF) 01 Feb 2012 - 23:48 UTC

Two ESF Students Represent Youth at United Nations Two EF students have been selected as part of a contingent to represent young people at the 50th session of the United Nations Commission on Social Development Feb. 1 through 10 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. (ESF) 01 Feb 2012 - 20:08 UTC

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