Publication archives

Sep 1, 2005

State grant to protect northern lake, forest property (MN)

Gov. Jim Doyle and The Nature Conservancy announced that the conservation group would get a $2.1 million grant from the state Stewardship Fund to help purchase and protect 971 acres in the Border Lakes area of northeastern Wisconsin.
Sep 1, 2005

Bush Administration Encourages Its Agencies To Find Partners for 'Cooperative Conservation'

The White House is playing environmental matchmaker, encouraging odd couples such as the Nature Conservancy and the Pentagon as they team to save wild birds and military training ranges.
Sep 1, 2005

Potlatch land gets green 'certified' label (MN)

The move to certify wood and paper made from Minnesota trees as environmentally friendly got a push this week, with forests owned by Potlatch Corp. certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Potlatch's 319,000 acres of northern Minnesota forests have been certified by the international organization as managed and harvested in an environmentally sustainable way.
Sep 1, 2005

Position: Assistant Professor of Society and Ecosystem Management, Berkeley, CA

Assistant Professor of Society and Ecosystem Management
Sep 1, 2005

Position: Executive Director, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Scotrun, PA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION Salary - $85,047 - $113,252 Requires eight years progressively responsible administrative management or staff experience, including five years of experience in directing and managing a major function within a conservation agency and a bachelor's degree in wildlife management, biology, public administration, business administration, or a closely r
Aug 31, 2005

Oregon State University 200-Year Experiment Changes Face Of Forest

A 200-year study of rotting logs in the Oregon Cascade Range is only 10 percent complete, but findings from this research have already helped save hundreds of millions of dollars, improved forest health and shattered conventional wisdom about the decay of woody debris. It also has attracted the interest of forest managers from around the world.
Aug 31, 2005

Bush rules mirror polluters' defense

The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less.
Aug 31, 2005

Safe Harbor's First Decade: Helping Landowners Help Endangered Wildlife (NC)

"IEATRCWS," the red truck's license plate defiantly proclaimed. Of course the truck's owner didn't really dine on endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers, but like many other longleaf pine forest owners in the North Carolina Sandhills and elsewhere in the Southeast in the mid-1990s, he was wary of conservationists and Endangered Species Act restrictions.