VP, Northern Forest Center. Tweets on rural community development and conservation in forested places. Opinions are mine.
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Wood heat- local, renewable and affordable- again the cheapest way to heat this winter. @FeelGoodHeat_ #woodisgood
Other than wood, natural gas is the cheapest source of heating fuel in Maine right now but is a relatively new part of the energy mix here. bangordailynews.com/2023/11/…
"If we reimagine forests, we can see that the cutting of a tree — as part of a holistic forest management approach — can be as profound a gift to the forest as its life." Seeing beyond the forest trees willistonobserver.com/living…
Hey @TheAthletic @nytimes local beatwriters were the whole idea of your product and why I’ve paid for it since the beginning. This is a crappy decision and I won’t be renewing.
Sorry to upstage Flag Day with personal news. Friday is my last day @TheAthletic, cuz of its decision to move on from localized beat coverage. This is my 23rd season covering O's (5 for TA). Thanks to awesome teammates there & readers who stuck with me. Hoping for a new chapter.
New video looks at wood pellet sector’s role in the forest carbon cycle #woodisgood #feelgoodheat canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/?…
Shaheen Leads NH Delegation in Welcoming Nearly $1 Million NSF Award to the Northern Forest Center to Support Innovation & Ecosystem Management shaheen.senate.gov/news/pres…
UNH project testing use of regional softwood in mass timber construction nhbr.com/unh-project-testing…
Our forests need us to figure out new things to do with trees. Thanks @GraniteGeek for your article. concordmonitor.com/wood-lumb…
"As a mill business and as a forest industry, we’re hoping to maintain and strengthen our wood products industry, and hopefully grow it, with the amount of wood that is growing. You know, the garden needs to be tended." northernwoodlands.org/blog/a…
Joe Short retweeted
"Harvesting timber from forests, for both environmental and commercial purposes, is a vital forest management tactic promoting biodiversity, forest regeneration and carbon sequestration, according to local and state experts." @maura_healey recorder.com/Foresters-conse…
Joe Short retweeted
U.S. Forests And Harvested Wood Products Removed 16.3% Of Total CO2 Emissions In 2020.
Public Forests Lands Are Moving To Carbon Sources, Not Sinks. fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/ru/ru_f…
My Turn: In the fight against logging, conspiracy takes the (profitable) reins recorder.com/My-Turn-Conlin-…
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Good time to #optoutofoil and switch to wood. #feelgoodheat #woodisgood #modernwoodheat
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Joe Short retweeted
This @NYTOpinion is a strange form of #climate denial. With climate change ravaging our forests on public lands, we know that some won’t survive without help from climate-smart forestry. That means doing nothing can cost us everything.
Some facts in a 🧵 nytimes.com/2022/08/25/opini…
Great explanation of wood heat as a smart complement to PVs and heat pumps vtdigger.org/2022/07/20/norm… via @vtdigger
"Private working forests provide 73% of our forests' annual gross sequestration, 54% of total carbon storage, all while providing 90% of the harvest for forest products" Great site to understand the data and story behind this... forestcarbondataviz.org/
"Heating oil now costs $39.08 per million Btu. In contrast, wood pellets provide that same amount of heat for just $18.91." #woodisgood #feelgoodheat pressherald.com/?p=6646907
