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	<title>Forest Policy Research</title>
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		<title>California: They saved Jenner Headlands, 5,630 acres of coastal grasslands &amp; redwood forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/19/california-they-saved-jenner-headlands-5630-acres-of-coastal-grasslands-redwood-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/19/california-they-saved-jenner-headlands-5630-acres-of-coastal-grasslands-redwood-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endandgered species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recreation]]></category>

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&#8220;Coastal properties of this size in California are few and far between,&#8221; said Amy Chesnut, the acquisitions director and manager of the project for the Sonoma Land Trust. &#8220;It is biologically rich, and scenically and visually very important.&#8221;


 The old ranch site, east of Highway 1 near the spot where the Russian River meets the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tualatin Riverkeepers greening parking lot stormwater flows</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/19/tualatin-riverkeepers-greening-parking-lot-stormwater-flows/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/19/tualatin-riverkeepers-greening-parking-lot-stormwater-flows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get invovled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[treeplanting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Text From: http://oregoncommunitytrees.blogspot.com/

Tualatin Riverkeepers is working with various partners to initiate a program to plant trees in parking lots for stormwater mitigation.  The Tualatin River basin has more than 5000 acres in parking lots that cause runoff that erodes and pollutes streams.  One of the goals of this project is to retrofit parking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Conservationist analysis of Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (FJRA)</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/usa-conservationist-analysis-of-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-fjra/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/usa-conservationist-analysis-of-forest-jobs-and-recreation-act-fjra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comments needed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 					


Analysis of S. 1470 (pdf – 35 pages)Executive Summary – S. 1470 Analysis (pdf – 3 pages)
The Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (FJRA) [bill text • map] was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and assigned bill number S. 1470.&#160; 

A line-by-line analysis of S.1470 has been commissioned by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: EarthJustice on ski resort NOT expanding in roadless area</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/colorado-earthjustice-on-ski-resort-not-expanding-in-roadless-area/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/colorado-earthjustice-on-ski-resort-not-expanding-in-roadless-area/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pristine roadless area saved]]></category>

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But is a Colorado senator trying to breathe new life into a bad idea? On November 5, 2009, something happened in Colorado that hasn&#8217;t happened in a long, long time:&#160;the U.S. Forest Service rejected a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Musician from Metalica donates 300 additional acres to Marin County</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/california-musician-from-metaliccs-donates-300-additional-acres-to-marin-county/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/california-musician-from-metaliccs-donates-300-additional-acres-to-marin-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recreation]]></category>

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Metallica frontman James Hetfield is donating 330 acres overlooking California&#8217;s Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland. The Marin County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted the donation Tuesday. It follows Hetfield&#8217;s earlier gift to the county of more than 400 acres for open space. Both plots of land are around Hetfield&#8217;s home. Hetfield&#8217;s land use consultant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: When the destroyers begin to realize they must undestroy</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/brazil-when-the-destroyers-begin-to-realize-they-must-undestroy/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/brazil-when-the-destroyers-begin-to-realize-they-must-undestroy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>

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&#8220;Nobody wants to have problems with the environment. And we have a cast of farmers who want to solve their problems and sleep soundly at night,&#8221; Bertinatto Copetti says.

Darci Eichelt cleared and plowed as much land as he could when he first arrived in Lucas do Rio Verde in central Mato Grosso state more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defend the forest via the web thanks to Google and Forest Policy Research</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/15/defend-the-forest-via-the-web-thanks-to-google-and-forest-policy-research/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/15/defend-the-forest-via-the-web-thanks-to-google-and-forest-policy-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World-Wide Tree News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global movement of forest protection]]></category>

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Stay tuned to this Forest Policy Research Website to learn how to become part of a global online forest defense movement. Here&#8217;s a hint as to what&#8217;s in store: 
Google&#8217;s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched a new way to monitor deforestation. The tool was demonstrated at the Copenhagen talks yesterday, which will enable online, global-scale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Sign up for the Pacific Southwest California Recreation Resource Advisory Committee</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/14/california-sign-up-for-the-pacific-southwest-california-recreation-resource-advisory-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/14/california-sign-up-for-the-pacific-southwest-california-recreation-resource-advisory-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get involved]]></category>

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The Pacific Southwest California Recreation Resource Advisory Committee advises both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management about fees charged for recreation on federal lands in the state. Its recommendations do not supersede the agencies&#8217; decision authority, but the panel helps assess public opinion.

Eight vacancies are expected on the 11-member panel in July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Sudden Oak Death brings out the Chainsaws</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/13/uk-sudden-oak-death-brings-out-the-chainsaws/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/13/uk-sudden-oak-death-brings-out-the-chainsaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>

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A Tag at Forest Policy Research called: Infestation fanaticism focuses on all the excitement related to diseases that threatens trees. Too often the trees are not as vulnerable to disease as they are to people who claim logging of diseased trees is the solution.
SOD, or Sudden Oak Death was first found in coastal Northern California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia: Indigenous People reclaim their name</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/11/indigneous-people-reclaim-their-names/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/11/indigneous-people-reclaim-their-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethno-botanical conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth and reconciliation]]></category>

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&#8220;This is bringing us back up to more modern times,&#8221; Kulesha said Friday. &#8220;This is what the islands are named; they&#8217;re Haida Gwaii. The confusion is the fact that some maps say one thing, and other maps say another. So now, it&#8217;s official, and that&#8217;s great.
&#8220;B.C.&#8217;s Queen Charlotte Islands have officially been renamed Haida Gwaii [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to “anthropogenic effects,” Redwoods are taking over the world</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/11/30/thanks-to-%e2%80%9canthropogenic-effects%e2%80%9d-redwoods-are-taking-over-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/11/30/thanks-to-%e2%80%9canthropogenic-effects%e2%80%9d-redwoods-are-taking-over-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World-Wide Tree News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redwoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to “anthropogenic effects,” Redwoods are taking over the world. http://bit.ly/7gCJvh
Did you know the fossil record indicates that before the last ice age Redwoods once grew all over the Northern Hemisphere of our planet? And guess what? They’re using humans to reclaim their territory!
Some examples:
–The timber industry in Central-Western Oregon are taking a newfound liking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Called &#8220;Traditions&#8221; (10min)</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/22/poem-called-traditions-read-and-sung-twice-at-start-end-10min/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/22/poem-called-traditions-read-and-sung-twice-at-start-end-10min/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Listen here:Play here:
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Heading out after a family together of traditions
A family hearing of the taproot of world suffering
the need for a cure at the center of the world
the psychic center of all life&#8217;s center, the holy land.
A desert soon to be gardens for all peoples and all life
Wanting to say hello
reaching
our hands out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Soundofthesoundofthesound by DeaneTR</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/07/poetry-soundofthesoundofthesound-by-deanetr/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/07/poetry-soundofthesoundofthesound-by-deanetr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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The sound of the sound of the sound of the word
Once read as it echoes
The sound of the sound of the truth
Once read as it bleeds on earth under soil
To a deeper world of vision
Of a rhythm of the rhyme of the rhythm
Of a tone… once known repeats…
As rhyme of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning: Living Stumps Removes the Hazard branches and preserves what 	remains</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-living-stumps-removes-the-hazard-branches-and-preserves-what-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-living-stumps-removes-the-hazard-branches-and-preserves-what-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen the giant old trees in story books? You know the
ones with the big gnarled trunks and a tiny tree canopy overhead?
Well that same effect can be created with trees that are too old and
too damaged than what most tree pruners will want to save&#8230;
Sometimes this process is seen as an eyesore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning: Making art out of a dead tree makes the soil healthier too!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-making-art-out-of-a-dead-tree-makes-the-soil-healthier-too/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-making-art-out-of-a-dead-tree-makes-the-soil-healthier-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new style rapidly gaining popularity is carving dead trees into art. This process begins first by removing as much of the hazardous parts of the tree as possible. That way even once the tree ultimately rots, it will still be a relatively safe to be around. Once this is accomplished an artist is found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning: Crown Restoration</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-crown-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-crown-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many trees once topped or chainsawed in overly agressive ways lose their natural healthy shape and instead send up stump sprouts / suckers which makes the tree vulnerable to being damaged in windstorms.
Too often tree pruners recommend removing these trees entirely, yet over the course of several years these trees can be trained back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning: Aggressive crown thinning for more sun for a Garden &amp; a 	house</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-aggressive-crown-thinning-for-more-sun-for-a-garden-a-house/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-aggressive-crown-thinning-for-more-sun-for-a-garden-a-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This pruning job is about as aggressive as I&#8217;m willing to get&#8230; The client has a vegatble garden, as well as a house that&#8217;s heavily shaded by this tree, so 35% of the branches were pruned away to create more light&#8230;
This pruning style is also a valuable way to protect trees from being blown over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning: Simulated crown thinning via photoshop</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-simulated-crown-thinning-via-photoshop/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/09/03/pruning-simulated-crown-thinning-via-photoshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pruning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a letter and photos about a beautiful Douglass Fir tree in downtown Olympia&#8230;
Still waiting to hear back about doing the work for them this Winter.
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Forest Policy Research
http://forestpolicyresearch.org
360-789-7843
7/29/09
Dear XXXXXXXXXXX,
I’ve spent time examining your tree and can report to you that it is in good health with no signs of decay or weakness!
The Photo below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OLYecology: We are the Album</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/08/14/olyecology-we-are-the-album/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/08/14/olyecology-we-are-the-album/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Portions of &#8220;I shall Not Be Moved&#8221;
by Maya Angelou 
Listen Here:Play here:
Download Here: http://forestpolicyresearch.org/audio/When the great
tree falls &#8211; Maya Angelou.mp3
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after saftey.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When grest souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington: Poetry and the forest will converge Saturday</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/25/washington-poetry-and-the-forest-will-converge-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/25/washington-poetry-and-the-forest-will-converge-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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&#160;&#160;&#160; Poetry and the  forest will converge Saturday as the Friends of the Seminary Hill Natural Area  hosts its second poetry walk at the natural area in Centralia.
  &#160;&#160;&#160; The walk begins at 10 a.m. and  ends at noon, and is open to anyone with a love of poetry and outdoors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Six Solstice Poems about life, death and renewal</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/22/poetry-five-solstice-poems-about-life-death-and-renewal/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/22/poetry-five-solstice-poems-about-life-death-and-renewal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Spontaneous musical improvisational chants
Grounded in roots of 969 poems that I choose as we play.
That I read without practice
That I read to make the moment clear
That we are all here
In this moment&#8230;
That life is too short to
Sing the same song twice!
Be well, Deane
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
Play here:
Download: MP3 here: http://forestpolicyresearch.org/audio/Tom Rhodes &#8211; Wilderness Invovation.mp3
Tom Rhodes &#8211; Wilderness Invocation
You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Forest related publications from International Institute for Environment and Development IIED</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/13/new-forest-related-publications-from-international-institute-for-environment-and-development-iied/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/13/new-forest-related-publications-from-international-institute-for-environment-and-development-iied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forest Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World-Wide Tree News]]></category>

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The International  Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is pleased to  announce its latest  
 
FOREST related publications.


 
Incentives to  sustain forest ecosystem services: A review and lessons for REDD
 
  Paying  people to protect forests can be an effective way to tackle deforestation and  climate change but only if there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Cows are the ultimate killer of both the land and its traditional peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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Cattle ranching is the biggest cause of deforestation, not only in  the Amazon, but worldwide. The report reveals that the Brazilian  government is a silent partner in these crimes by providing loans to  and holding shares in the three biggest players – Bertin, JBS and  Marfrig – that are driving expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Legislation of Genocide legitimizes stolen land!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-legislation-of-genocide-a-legitimization-of-stolen-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-legislation-of-genocide-a-legitimization-of-stolen-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
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		<title>Brazil: Economic development rainforest creates opposite affect</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology of deforestation]]></category>

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The argument for deforestation has always been that the economic  benefits to local communities are too great to overlook. But now a new  study in the current issue of Science suggests that&#8217;s not true.  A team of researchers from Portugal, France and Britain studied nearly  300 Brazilian municipalities on the frontier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak out! Oppose genocide against 30,000 Peaceful Peruvian indigenous peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/11/5543/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/11/5543/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Send a Message to the President of Peru:
-

End this atrocity!



Send a Message to the President of Peru to end this atrocity!
http://amazonwatch.org/peru-action-alert.php
Update: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum in Nicaragua after an arrest warrant was issued in his name on charges of sedition, conspiracy and rebellion following clashes between Amazonian Indians and Peruvian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in Voices of Humboldt County!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/10/this-week-in-voices-of-humboldt-county-14-new-posts-1st-week-of-june-09/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/10/this-week-in-voices-of-humboldt-county-14-new-posts-1st-week-of-june-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees & Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watershed planning]]></category>

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Brought  to you by the Humboldt Watersheds Council
http://voicesofhumboldtcounty.com
1) 5 reasons why we need your protective loving voice at the General  Plan hearing tomorrow
http://www.voicesofhumboldtcounty.com/?p=269 
2) River Bar Road Neighborhood to be an industrial gravel transport /  production area?
http://www.voicesofhumboldtcounty.com/?p=246 
3) Do you want Salmon and Healthy  Forests? Klamath National Forest Needs to Hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Global Justice Ecology Audio interview on what&#8217;s wrong with GE 	trees</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/08/a-global-justice-ecology-audio-interview-on-whats-wrong-with-ge-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/08/a-global-justice-ecology-audio-interview-on-whats-wrong-with-ge-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Rights of Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE trees]]></category>

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At the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues   in May in New York City, Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project and North American Focal Point   for Global Forest Coalition, spoke with host Bruce Gellerman of   National Public Radio&#8217;s Living on Earth about the negative impacts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia: Queen of protest speaks on activism, prison life 	and second acts after raising kids.</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/british-columbia-queen-of-protest-speaks-on-activism-prison-life-and-second-acts-after-raising-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/british-columbia-queen-of-protest-speaks-on-activism-prison-life-and-second-acts-after-raising-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top forest defenders]]></category>

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		<title>More on Nature Conservancy Profiteering off industrial emission 	bribes</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/more-on-nature-conservancy-profiteering-off-industrial-emission-bribes/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/more-on-nature-conservancy-profiteering-off-industrial-emission-bribes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt environmentalists]]></category>

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We know what The Nature Conservancy (TNC) thinks about forest offsets. It loves them. It loves them so much that it has got into bed with the biggest coal-burner in the US,  American Electric Power. Meanwhile, TNC has developed a “global  mechanism proposal”, which includes a goal of 3 billion tons of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern US: Dogwood Alliance report says biofuels will double carbon 	emissions</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/southern-us-dogwood-alliance-report-says-biofuels-will-double-carbon-emissions/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/southern-us-dogwood-alliance-report-says-biofuels-will-double-carbon-emissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Dogwood Alliance, released a position paper on the potential environmental and economic impacts of the cellulosic ethanol industry in the Southern United States, exposing the false environmental and economic benefits of tree-based biofuels. Over the last couple of years, policy makers and investors have been quick to jump on the biofuel bandwagon in hopes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana: Conservationist Manifesto, Scott Russell Sanders</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/indiana-a-conservationists-manifesto-by-scott-russell-sanders/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/indiana-a-conservationists-manifesto-by-scott-russell-sanders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation priorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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What could a Scott Russell Sanders book say that so many before it—Aldo’s Almanac, John Hay’s In Defense of Nature, any number of modern eco-shrieks—have not already said? Would there, could there be anything new here? Sanders begins with a compelling story: the spirited local defense of a threatened woodland in his town. This way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa: Only 2% of tropical forests not yet stolen from traditional 	peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/africa-only-2-of-tropical-forests-not-yet-stolen-from-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/africa-only-2-of-tropical-forests-not-yet-stolen-from-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less than 2 percent of Africa&#8217;s tropical forests are under community  control, hindering efforts to slow deforestation and alleviate rural  poverty, reports a new assessment from the International Tropical  Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Rights and Resources Initiative  (RRI), a global coalition of non-governmental and community  organizations.
Please value the writer [...]]]></description>
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