Kyoto carbon credits are earned by those individuals and businesses that sequestered carbon by planting new forestry since the Kyoto Protocol's baseline of January 1 1990, and by those industries which have cut their carbon emissions since then. This fuelled a planting boom through the 1990s with 30,000 New Zealanders and forestry companies putting up as much as $400 million per annum of their own risk capital to invest in more than 600,000 hectares of new forest - both because of the...

Township Manager Jeff Vey said the new ordinance is aimed at allowing supervisors to approve more than 20 percent tree removal in the planned commercial and planned industrial zoning districts to maintain the commercial development district. Milford Township supervisors voted 2-0 at their meeting Tuesday to preserve woodland areas and require developers to compensate for trees removed during commercial and industrial land development. The new ordinance allows for more than 20 percent of...

Get into local tree planting. Supplied on the day will be the trees, some shovels and gloves, but please remember to bring along a hat and water bottle. If you would like to bring along some gardening tools, it would be much appreciated, but not necessary. Bombala news, classifieds and community. NATIONAL Tree Planting Day is upon us once again, and this year it is hoped that locals will join hundreds of volunteers across the country as they help out the environment on July 29. The...

Six-hundred-fifty-six out of the 2,736 acres of national forest land burned by the fire had undergone modern fuels-reduction treatments by the start of the fire on June 24. Bonnicksen said fire racing through the top of an overly dense forest was the major cause of property damage, while Rex Norman, USFS spokesman, has repeatedly reiterated the initial findings of agency investigators. These numbers are grossly inadequate, and more needs to be done to prevent another catastrophic crown...

The 16-year-old event, which combines bicycling and tree planting, returns to Northern California this month and includes a stop at Stanford. More than 80 cyclists will begin the morning of Friday, July 20, in Sacramento and follow a 550-mile route that will take them to Clearlake, down through the wine country and over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco, down the Peninsula and on to Santa Cruz and the Monterey area. More than 80 cyclists will begin the morning of Friday, July 20, in...