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On a ThinkWood! walking tour with members of the Society of Environmental Journalists in downtown Boise recently, our group stopped at The Warehouse Food Hall and Mother Earth Brewing to

Urban wood could help save the environment and small businesses at the same time

By Liam Jackson for Great Lakes Echo.Broadcast version by Brett Peveto for Michigan News Connection with support from the Solutions Journalism Network Urban wood could help save the environment and small businesses at the same time. “When I walk through the woods now compared to 20 years ago, I notice the trees getting smaller and smaller because they are getting over-forested,” said Jason Tervol, the owner of Tervol’s Wood Products in Hillsdale County, Michigan. G...

Two Florida graduate students are part of a Forage Fish Research Program. They are looking at how altering water flows in coastal estuaries affect fish, and learning the best ways to manage popular recreational fish. Dakota Lewis, a Ph.D. ...

The Bureau of Land Management has auctioned off another 10,000 acres of New Mexico public lands to the oil and gas industry, despite a local rally and national letter writing campaign requesting its cancellation. The letter, signed by 272 local and national groups, unions, businesses and institutions, failed to stop the May 25 sale and the BLM did not respond. Miya King-Flaherty, Our Wild New Mexico organizing representative for the Rio Grande chapter of the Sierra Club, said four Western stat...

Before the emerald ash borer arrived in Sheboygan, officials knew it would devastate the city. Their dilemma was how to slow down the damage.

Getting lumber from urban sources is a growing alternative in Michigan and nationwide.

In New Mexico, Native American students are expelled far more often than any other group and at least four times as often as white students. Gallup-McKinley County Schools, is responsible for most of that disparity, according to an analysis of state records by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica.

From Seattle to Baltimore, cities are recycling felled urban trees into furniture, construction projects and guitars.

Urban wood could help save the environment and small businesses at the same time.