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In appeals filed for modification of the criteria for identification of private forests in State of Goa, the Supreme Court recently ruled that the existing criteria are adequate and valid, and...

Mark Mamros, of McMurray, was one of twenty-five volunteers who completed the Pennsylvania Forest Stewards Volunteer Program’s training in early September after participating in a four-day workshop on forest stewardship

Deadline: 20-Apr-23 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), through anticipated cooperative agreements from the Department of the Interior

Penn State and its College of Agricultural Sciences have renamed the Center for Private Forests at Penn State in honor of its founder, the late James C. (Jim) Finley, an outstanding academic scholar and teacher whose pioneering work at the interface of people and forests reached hundreds of thousands of people.

Jim Finley long will be remembered for his simple but powerful message: take care of the woods. And in conveying that idea to thousands of people across Pennsylvania and the nation over a five-decade Penn State career, the professor emeritus of forest resources persuaded many.

Anne Lucey The fire service continued to battle a major mountain blaze in Killarney National Park for the third night. An Air Corps helicopter is scheduled to return this morning (Monday) to assist with the battle on the higher ground. Meanwhile, there have been calls for a system of fire breaks to be put in around public and private property. This weekend’s fire in Killarney has spread over thousands of acre of bog and mountain from the southern side of the 25,000 hectare park northwards ove...

Firefighters battle blaze in Killarney National Park for a third night Thousands of acres of rare habitat and a number of ancient trees damaged or destroyed about 9 hours ago Updated: about an hour ago Anne Lucey in Killarney Fire in Killarney National Park. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan Helicopter dropping wat...

Owners of illegal resorts begin farming along notified elephant corridor Updated: Updated: February 26, 2021 06:42 IST ‘It is illegal to change land-use along the elephant corridor and in all TNPPF Act notified lands’ Share Article AAA Owners of illegal resorts that were shut down in the notified elephant corridor in Bokkapuram have begun to cultivate their lands.   ‘It is illegal to change land-use along the elephant corridor and in all TNPPF Act notified lands’ Contravening the rul...

Close In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 photo, Susan Benedict moves a tree branch off of the road, at her farm named Beartown Tree Farm in Snow Shoe, Pa. Benedict lives in a small house deep in Beartown with husband Leroy and son Zach, and although she works full-time as an accountant in State College, generating revenue for upkeep and taxes takes up nearly as much time. She has a trusted logger, whom she calls one of the "last, real mountain men," and a 3-D map constantly in moti...

The tribunal warned that if the exercise is not completed within the stipulated time, coercive measures may have to be taken if the concerned officers do not behave responsibly.