Forest Eco is a two-minute podcast and radio module distributed monthly by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station. http://www.srs.usda.gov/foresteco http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:28:49 -0400 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:27:50 -0400 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) unlicensed version http://www.feedforall.com From Virginia to Florida, Texas to Kentucky....This is Forest Eco. Experts with the U.S. Forest Service, The American Chestnut Foundation, and the University of Tennessee say hundreds of blight resistant American chestnut seedlings are thriving in three national forests in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. Project partners planted the seedlings last winter as part of a larger effort to restore the American chestnut to its native range, which at one time stretched from Maine to Florida. Last century, a chestnut blight nearly wiped out the American chestnut in Eastern forests. http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/foresteco/audio/foresteco_chestnut_0909.mp3 8D5CDE32-CD12-4C45-B3A0-AEB6735DF7DC Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:20:01 -0400 From Virginia to Florida, Texas to Kentucky....This is Forest Eco. The build-up of greenhouse gases is changing the climate, and compared to historic levels, will very likely result in an increase in air temperature of 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. So what effect will climate change have on the South’s forests? For answers, we turn to Steve McNulty, research ecologist with U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, in Raleigh, North Carolina. http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/foresteco/audio/foresteco_climatechange_0809.mp3 8D5CDE32-CD12-4C45-B3A0-AEB6735DF7DC Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:20:01 -0400 From Virginia to Florida, Texas to Kentucky….This is Forest Eco. This year, the United States celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Nation’s experimental forests and ranges. Nineteen experimental forests are found in the South and Southeast. They range from the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina to the Crossett Experimental Forest in southern Arkansas, both of which turn 75 years young this year. So what are experimental forests and why are they important? http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/foresteco/audio/foresteco_expforests_0709.mp3 8D5CDE32-CD12-4C45-B3A0-AEB6735DF7DC Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:26:48 -0400