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		<title>Feeding the air: Northern woods poised to benefit from carbon credit market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its August issue, BusinessNorth gives top front-page billing to a lengthy article,  Feeding the air: Northern woods poised to benefit from carbon credit market, exploring the role that forests can play in mitigating global climate change, including through participation in voluntary carbon off-set markets.  The impetus and frame for the article was the February  conference, Forest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=776&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Report: Conventional Wisdoms of Woody Biomass Utilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Dennis Becker for sharing news of this report, which includes a case study from Northeast Minnesota.  A collaboration of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Michigan Technological University, University of Oregon, and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service have released a new report entitled &#8220;Conventional Wisdoms of Woody Biomass Utilization.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=766&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aitkin County Land Dept. Hosts Intermediate Treatment Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aitkin County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate treatments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the key learnings from last year’s forest productivity tour series is that “intermediate treatments can be an effective tool for increasing forest productivity…as long as we don’t go overboard.”  Last week, the Aitkin County Land Department hosted a tour that focused on their experiences of applying intermediate treatments in a variety of forest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=749&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walking the (Forest) Garden with Mark and Peter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aitkin County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Bundy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard many people speak of gardening as an apt metaphor for forestry.   Now Forest Consultant Peter Bundy is out with a new book, The Wild Garden: A Journey of Loss and Renewal (North Star Press), that explores this connection in a deeply personal way.  Owner of Masconomo Forestry in Crosby, Minnesota, Peter specializes in restoration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=738&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer&#8217;s Exclamation Point &#8211; Goods from the Woods</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/summers-exclamation-point-goods-from-the-woods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goods from the Woods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goods from the Woods (GFTW) began seven years ago as one of the first projects of the Vital Forests/Vital Communities Initiative.  I well recall the bright February day when a group of us first gathered to brainstorm the principles and goals that became GFTW.   This year this unique community festival of sustaining stewardship and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=721&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Vital Forests/Vital Communities: Sustaining the Work</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/beyond-vital-forestsvital-communities-sustaining-the-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vital Forests/Vital Communities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I write today to share the news that Blandin Foundation will formally conclude our Vital Forests/Vital Communities Initiative by the end of this year.  Intended to have a 3-5 year life, VF/VC was launched in 2003 to strengthen and diversity Minnesota’s forest-based economy and promote the long-term ecological health of the forest resource that supports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=706&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediate Treatments in Action</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/intermediate-treatments-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dovetail Partners Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate treatments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote yesterday about Dovetail Partner Inc.’s new report, The Power of Silviculture, promoting intermediate treatments as silvilculture that provides win-win outcomes for the forests, forest economy, and forest-reliant communities. Monday’s DuluthNews Tribune featured a front page article making the same case through the practices of logger Mike Zauhar, an independent logger practicing in St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=702&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Done deal: UPM signs binding agreement on conservation easement of Upper Mississippi Forest Project</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/done-deal-upm-signs-binding-agreement-on-conservation-easement-of-upper-mississippi-forest-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MN DNR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Mississippi Forest easement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Late on June 3 the DNR issued this press release announcing that the agency and Blandin Paper Company (UPM) have signed a binding agreement from the purchase of a working forest conservation easement on the 188,000 acre Upper Mississippi Forest Project. Here’s a link to coverage of the deal in today’s Star Tribune. Congratulations again [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=695&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silviculture’s Silver Bullet</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/silviculture%e2%80%99s-silver-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dovetail Partners Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intermediate treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN DNR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They are rare in the often rough and tumble world of forest policy and practice, but sometimes it’s possible to point to tools that are especially helpful in delivering multiple public benefits from our forest resources – tools that are true silver bullets. As described in a Dovetail Partners, Inc. report just out, The Power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=691&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Saxhaug Names Names</title>
		<link>http://vfvc.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/tom-saxhaug-names-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernadine Joselyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conservation easement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lessard Outdoor Heritage Council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Upper Mississippi Forest easement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Tom Saxhaug shared some poignant reflections on the new Upper Mississippi Forest Project conservation easement at Friday&#8217;s Forestry Affairs Committee meeting of the Grand Rapids Area&#8217;s Chamber of Commerce. As the bill&#8217;s author in the Senate, Tom has intimate knowledge of the behind-the-scenes efforts required to pass the legislation. His leadership was central to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vfvc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1106343&#038;post=679&#038;subd=vfvc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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