FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 13 NO.

7 July 2012 Welcome to this edition of FIU Please find below our latest batch of articles, listing, meetings and web sites for the natural resource sector. Also FYI, the latest edition of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal is out. PODCAST: A BRAZILIAN PROPOSAL FOR GREEN ECONOMY PRACTICE coauthored by Eder Zanetti, who is a Fullbright Scholar and is a Forest Engineer with a PhD on Sustainable Forest Management, and Swapan Mehra. Forest Engineer, PhD. You can listen to a podcast from Eder Zanetti at: http://www.southem.com/2012/07/eder-zanetti-ecosystem-business-proposal/ SINO-FORESTS DEALS IN SPOTLIGHT - China-based Sino-Forest Corporation appears to have structured a New Zealand forestry deal along the same lines those for which it has been hauled before the court in Canada on charges of massive fraud around forest asset valuations. http://www.southem.com/2012/06/southernhemisphere-forest-industry-journal-vol-18-no-1/ View the Journal at: http://issuu.com/msatbms/docs/shfij_vol_18_1

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INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gary Krupnick, Nelson Wong, Lance Olsen, Tina Etherington, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew, Selva Escalera, Colin, Infosylva, IUFRO, Hakim M. Abdi, Benktesh Sharma and many more. Thank you all for sharing your information! HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD RAMSAR COP 11 STRESSES ROLE OF WETLANDS IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE The role of wetlands in addressing climate change is to get a boost following the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention). Ramsar COP 11 took place from 6-13 July 2012, in Bucharest, Romania, under the theme Wetlands: Home and Destination and concluded with the adoption of 22 resolutions, including one on climate change and wetlands. http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/ramsar-cop-11-stresses-role-of-wetlands-in-addressingclimate-change/146392/ HANCOCK TIMBER BUYS TIMBER PORTFOLIO OFF FORESTCAPITALPARTNERS - The Hancock Timber Resource Group has acquired 1.35 million acres of timberland from Portland, Oregon-based Forest Capital Partners, Hancock Timber President Dan Christensen said in a statement. Terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not disclosed. Hancock Timber is acquiring 376,000 acres in Louisiana, 573,000 acres in Oregon, 138,000 acres in Idaho and 264,000 acres in Washington. http://www.htrg.com/news_07_13_12.htm FIRST IUFRO-FORNESSA REGIONAL CONGRESS HELD IN NAIROBI - The First IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress opened on 26 June 2012 at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA), with support from a number of donor organizations and institutions, the Congress focused on the theme, Forests and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the World. http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/forest/iufrofornessa/c1/ SUSTAINABLE FOREST INITIATIVE AWARD TO WRI FOR WATER QUALITY RESEARCH - The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global development and environmental think tank, will receive a grant of $35,000 USD to research how forest certification standards can help protect American lakes and rivers, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sfi-awards-grant-to-support-water-qualityresearch-2012-07-16 FOR THE 212 ISSUE HEADLINES HIMALAYA, the editors have reviewed 44 news reports from 23 sources and selected 15 happenings in five countries. Floods overwhelm entire Himalaya causing damages of unprecedented scale. For the first time, police in Nepal seized huge quantity of pangolin scales that was being smuggled to China. Guwahati, a city in north east India, has been tagged as the most polluted city in the world. Fire gutted a four-century-old architectural wonder in

Bhutan. A critically endangered bear has been spotted in Pakistan Himalaya after 6 decades. Download this issue from: http://www.resourceshimalaya.org/? s=trcontent&a=browse&con_id=f8fcc3c375a1ca3032710d45c17b0413&title=July01;%20No.2 12 BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED... This section is devoted to resource inventory tips and miscellaneous blurbs for whatever uses you care to make. Please limit contributions to one paragraph or so. Thanks, Mike Smith. HELP! FEEDBACK TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Pay it forward! If you can help with any of the requests below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and rewarded. CALL FOR MEDIA: see what is at stake at world's largest Earth observation conference - Media representatives are invited to a briefing before the opening of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Munich, Germany. The briefing hosted by ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will begin on Monday 23 July at 09:45. The latest results and future strategy in Earth observation and climate research will be presented. http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=37820 OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the forestry field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people, please consider posting your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this service) and the following outlets: http://lists.topica.com/lists/wood http://stateforesters.org/news.html http://www.canadian-forests.com/job.html http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/forest.html http://www.devnetjobs.org http://www.foresters.org/portal http://www.forestryusa.com/jobs.htm http://www.HigherEdJobs.com http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobseekers/search_fellowships.shtml http://www.safnet.org/careercenter/classifieds.cfm http://www.careerjet.com http://www.mygreeneducation.com/ http://www.getforestryjobs.net/ FORESTRY OFFICER (REDD+) WITH FAO Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka. With Forest Assmanment, Management & Conservation Division (FOM) of the Forestry Department. For 12 months (extendable). See http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/FOM-815-12-PRJ.pdf

CONSULTING UTILITY FORESTER, Winnemucka, NV - CN Utility Consulting, Inc. is currently seeking qualified personnel for full time employment in the Winnemucka, NV area. All eligible and interested persons are encouraged to apply. The natures of duties, and the requirements for this position, are outlined below. CN Utility Consulting (CNUC) is an Employee Owned organization and as such seeks highly qualified and highly motivated employee owners. CNUC is an equal opportunity employer. http://www.getforestryjobs.net/consulting-utility-forester-winnemucka-nvwinnemucka-nevada-29174192.htm RESEARCH STUDENT - BIOMASS SUPPLY AND DEMAND QUESTION - Debbie Buckley wrote via the Forest & Wood Products Consulting Marketplace: Hi All, I am a postgraduate student at Imperial College London. I am currently undertaking a research project looking at biomass resources for use in large-scale power generation in the UK. Could anyone recommend any consulting reports or publications that would provide an overview of the current and future status of the biomass sector? In particular I am trying to find price-volume data for wood pellets and torrefied pellets, as well as different stakeholder views on biomass sustainability? Thank you for your help. http://www.linkedin.com/in/buckleydebbie WOOD TECHNOLOGY AND WOOD COMPOSITES - The University of Gttingen, Germany, invites applications for the position of a W2 Professor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology. The position will strengthen the research area of forest products. http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/#c14607 INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE PROTECTION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME - Enno Aufderheide writes via Nepalese Foresters: I should like to inform you about this years call for applications for the International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Applications may be submitted immediately. The closing date is 1 December 2012. The fellows will take up their fellowship in September 2013. Please note that anyone who has already received sponsorship from the Humboldt Foundation in the form of a fellowship or award is not entitled to apply for this fellowship. The call is subject to the approval of sufficient financial means to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. For information on the program and the online application package visit www.humboldtfoundation.de/ICF If you have any questions about this programme, please contact info@avh.de FINANCE AND CARBON MARKET SPECIALIST: FOREST, CARBON, MARKETS, AND CLIMATE - Term: Full-time. Location: In Washington, D.C. with periodic international travel. Deadline: August 1, 2012. Terra Global Capital is seeking qualified Finance and Carbon Market Specialist candidates for the Forest, Carbon, Markets and Climate program (FCMC). FCMCs two major deliverables include assisting countries with ambitious REDD+ plans by building capacity within those countries to achieve long-term net emissions reductions from forests and land use

and contribute to the evolving REDD+ framework. http://www.terraglobalcapital.com/press/Finance%20and%20Carbon%20Market %20Specialist%20-%20Forest,%20Carbon,%20Markets%20and%20Climate.pdf SUSTAINABLE FOREST PROJECTS SEEKING FINANCE SOUGHT - Alexander Watson writes via Forest Investment Group: We are looking for sustainable forest and agro-forest projects seeking finance. Projects need to be managed ecological and shall have high social standards. If these criteria also apply to your project, we welcome you to send us your project descriptions. In the case of interest please contact my by email so we can send you more detailed information: alexander.watson@openforests.com TENDERS CALLED FOR A PROJECT INVOLVING EUROPES LARGEST ARTIFICIAL LAKE. In Portugal, Enterprise Development and Infrastructure of Alqueva, S. A. (EDIA) and the Cross-border Association of Municipalities of the Lands of the Grande Lago Alqueva (ATMTGLA) have launched an open tender for the selection of participants in the project team "Riparian Villages of Grande Lago Alqueva", which aims to seek solutions to boost the territory and the potential created by the Grande Lake Alqueva, promoting recovery of the endogenous assets and the local culture of five adjacent villages. Its expected the lake will become a prolific fishing destination. For more information, see in Portuguese: http://www.edia.pt/edia/images/docs/convite_para_estagios_projeto_aldeias_ribeirinh as_grande_lago_alqueva.pdf More info about the lake can be found at: http://www.lakelubbers.com/grande-lago2016/ VACANCIES OF INTEREST AT CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research has some vacancies of interest: Research Fellow, Forests and Adaptation to Climate Change CIFOR, West Java, Indonesia See all details - http://www.envirocruit.com/en/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/905research-fellow-forests-and-adaptation-to-climate-change.html Post Doctoral Fellow, Management and Conservation of Forests and Trees CIFOR - Lima, Peru. See all details http://www.envirocruit.com/en/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/902-post-doctoralfellow-management-and-conservation-of-forests-and-trees.html VOLUNTEER TRAIL WORK - PTC writes via Forestry HR and Recruiting (USA): Because most of the Forest Service fielded employees in the Angeles National Forest have been laid off and budgets cut, volunteers are trying to keep up with the trash, toilets, and trails. http://crystallake.name/twork/30jun12/30jun12.php HAVE YOU READ? Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY Patrick A. Jansen & Ben T. Hirsch et al. Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print July 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205184109 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/10/1205184109.abstract Sarah G. Allen, Joe Mortenson, Sophie Webb. Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast : Baja, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia. BACKLIST. January 19, 2011. http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx? sequence=1&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=51631&org =&sku=0520265459 BIOFUEL/BIOMASS Goerndt Michael E and Aguilar, Francisco X et al. Regional assessment of woody biomass physical availability as an energy feedstock for combined combustion in the US northern region. Date: 2012. Source: Journal of Forestry. April/May: 138-148. http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/40758 Shrikant A. Survase, Evangelos Sklavounos, German Jurgens, Adriaan van Heiningen, Tom Granstrm. Continuous acetonebutanolethanol fermentation using SO2ethanolwater spent liquor from spruce. Bioresource Technology. Volume 102, Issue 23, December 2011, Pages 1099611002. Original Research Article. Pages 10996-11002. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852411013034 Ruengwit Sawangkeaw et al. Biofuel production from crude palm oil with supercritical alcohols: Comparative LCA Studies. Bioresource Technology. Volume 120, September 2012, Pages 612 Original Research Article. Pages 6-12 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852412009182 CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING N. R. Kaye, A. Hartley, and D. Hemming. Mapping the climate: guidance on appropriate techniques to map climate variables and their uncertainty. Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 245-256, 2012. http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/5/245/2012/gmd-5-245-2012.html Atlas of Winter Migratory Birds of Portugal accessible by WebGIS (Atlas das Aves Invernantes e Migradoras de Portugal acessvel por WebGIS). The Atlas of Winter Migratory Birds of Portugal aims to produce maps of distribution and relative abundance for all species of migratory birds in Portugal and Islands. In November 2013, a final monograph will be produced, in color, with the specific results and synecologies from this project. The issue referred to will be in electronic format. http://www.spea.pt/pt/estudo-e-conservacao/censos/atlas-aves-invernantes-emigradoras/resultados-e-divulgacao/

P. H. A. Martin-Kaye and G. M. Lawrence. The Application of Satellite Imaging Radars over Land to the Assessment, Mapping and Monitoring of Resources Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 18 July 1983 vol. 309 no. 1508 295-314 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/309/1508/295.abstract?sid=b10522adc6c4-43d5-be74-52d23183fbd4 CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON Mark G. New, Diana M. Liverman, Richard A. Betts, Kevin L. Anderson and Chris C. West. Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications a Thematic Issue compiled and edited by authors for January 13, 2011; 369 (1934) issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934.toc Included in this issue is the following article: Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows. Beyond dangerous climate change: emission scenarios for a new world. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 13 January 2011 vol. 369 no. 1934 20-44 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.short?rss=1&amp %3bssource=mfr Daniel P. Schrag. Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge. ELEMENTS June 2007 v. 3 no. 3 p. 171-178. http://elements.geoscienceworld.org/content/3/3/171.abstract Ralph F. Keeling and Hernan E. Garcia. The change in oceanic O2 inventory associated with recent global warming PNAS 2002 99 (12) 7848-7853; published ahead of print June 4, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.122154899 Philip M. Fearnside. Do Hydroelectric Dams Mitigate Global Warming? The Case of Brazil's Curu-Una Dam. National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), C.P. 478, 69011-970 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. http://philip.inpa.gov.br/publ_livres/Preprints/In%20press/Curua-Una%20MITI-7.htm Only One Earth. The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development. By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong. Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge 312 pages http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540254/?utm_medium=email INVENTORY/MONITORING Fred Raafat. Survey of Literature on Continuously Deteriorating Inventory Models. The Journal of the Operational Research Socity. Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp 2737. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2582993? uid=3738776&uid=2&uid=4&sid=47699136696247 J. Robbins et al. Development of an inventory management tool using visual

imagery from a multirotor aerial platform. Jan 2012. Aragriculture.org, papers. http://www.aragriculture.org/horticulture/nursery_automation/papers/Robbins_SNA_ MRRSS_Jan2012.pdf Elias Ntungwe Ngalame. Cameroon to protect forests with satellite monitoring. Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:58 GMT. Source: alertnet. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/cameroon-to-protect-forests-with-satellitemonitoring/ LEGAL MATTERS Benjamin Cashore and Michael W. Stone. Can legality verification rescue global forest governance?: Analyzing the potential of public and private policy intersection to ameliorate forest challenges in Southeast Asia. Forest Policy and Economics. Volume 18, May 2012, Pages 1322 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934111001961 Moving Forward with Forest Governance - ETFRN News 53: The 29 articles in this issue of ETFRN News showcase a rich diversity of examples of how forest governance has been addressed in various settings. The full issue or each article individually can be downloaded from the ETFRN website: http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/news53/index.html MISCELLANEOUS Angelsen, A.; Brockhaus, M.; Sunderlin, W.D.; Verchot, L.V. (eds). Analysing REDD+: Challenges and choices. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia. 2012. http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/3805.html REMOTE SENSING/GIS Gil, A. (2011). Using remote sensing data to support the development of methods for territorial and natural resources characterization, assessment, planning and management. Ph.D. Thesis. University of the Azores. Ponta Delgada, Portugal: 173 p. https://repositorio.uac.pt/handle/10400.3/1331 Ronald E. McRoberts et al. Special Issue: 25th Anniversary Jubilee Issue Looking beyond to shape the future - Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010. pages 340-367 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02827581.2010.497496 Jeffery A. Cavner, Aimee M. Stewart, Charles J. Grady, James H. Beach. An innovative Web Processing Services based GIS architecture for global biogeographic analyses of species distributions. OSGeo Journal, Volume 10 FOSS4G 2011 Proceedings. http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/article/view/195

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING Thomas Falk, Bjoern Vollan, Michael Kirk. Analysis of material, social, and moral governance in natural resource management in southern Namibia. International Journal of the Commons, North America, , May. 2012. http://ojscom.library.uu.nl/index.php/ijc/article/view/307 Trevor J. Davis & C. Peter Keller. Modelling uncertainty in natural resource analysis using fuzzy sets and Monte Carlo simulation: slope stability prediction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. pages 409-434. Volume 11, Issue 5, 1997. DOI: 10.1080/136588197242239 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/136588197242239 Richard H.H. Moll Daniel E. Lane. Introduction to the Special Issue 2011 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Ottawa Canada. Natural Resource Modeling. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2012.00132.x. Article first published online: 12 JUL 2012. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.19397445.2012.00132.x/abstract;jsessionid=B7C7ACF260C86E37185632F9C8CD6432.d 04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: The attained and the attainable. Recently released review paper (along with the supplementary materials) by Jack Putz et al. Available at: http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10200/publications/ CAPTURED ON VIDEO TEMPERATE AND BOREAL FORESTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE. BirdLife International delegation member Mel Coath talks about why termperate and boreal forests are important in the fight against climate change and how they need to protected as part of any future deal (interview at the UNCCC COP17, December 2011, for OneWorld TV). http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/12/why-termperate-and-boreal-forests-areimportant-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/ VIET NAM RECLAIMS FOREST LAND WITH HELP FROM FAO - The UNs Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says more nations around the world are realizing the positive contribution that the forestry industry can make to the development of a green economy. In Viet Nam, the loss of forested areas has been reversed and the country is now increasing forest area by about one percent every year. Julie Walker reports. MAKING OF A FORESTER UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON SUMMER FORESTRY CAMP. Heres a nice video on this years Forestry Summer Camp, prepared by Sevie Kenyon and Nicole Miller from CALS External Relations. http://ecals.cals.wisc.edu/teaching-advising/2012/07/16/video-2012-forestry-summer-

camp/ YOU'RE INVITED! For a more complete listing of upcoming inventory and monitoring related meetings, see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infomeets/ http://www.agnic.org/mtg/index.html http://www.asprs.org/asprs/meetings/calendar.html http://www.conferencealerts.com/ http://www.efi.int/events http://www.efi.int/portal/news___events/events/event_calendar/ http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/frames/agenda.html http://www.fao.org/forestry/for/forc/free/education/courses.asp http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar-of-meetings/ http://www.safnet.org/meetings/index.cfm www.conferencealerts.com 30 July to 5 August 2012. The Ecology Center Functional, of the University of Coimbra, the Escola Superior Agrria de Coimbra and the Forest United, are organizing the 10th Field of Scientific Work on Invasive Plant Control (CTC), which this year will run from 30 July to 5 August 2012, in the Serra da Lous, Portugal. http://www.ci.uc.pt/invasoras/ 5-12 August 2012. Ecological Society of America - The 97th Annual Meeting will be held, in Portland, OR. This meetings theme is "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems. http://esa.org/portland/ 9-12 September 2012. 4th International Faustmann Symposium, Forest Economics under Multiple Challenges. Saariselk, Lapland, Finland. University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences. http://www.helsinki.fi/forestsciences/4th_faustmann/index.html 12-13 December 2012. International Conference on Forest Mountain & People 2012. Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.icimod.org/?q=6525 4-7 May 2012. Geography International Symposium - Climate Change for Sustainability. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. http://www.geographysymposium.geo.ugm.ac.id/geography_symposium.html 21-26 October 2012. International Forestry Graduate Students' Conference 2012 (FORGRAD 2012). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, in collaboration with the Academy of Science Malaysia. Contact: technical.forgrad2012(at)gmail.com http://www.forr.upm.edu.my/index.php/ifgsc-forgrad2012 13-15 November 2012. Modern Problems of Forestry and Forest Management. St. Petersburg, Russia.IUFRO 3.00.00, Contact: Maxim Chubinsky, mchubinsky(at)gmail.com

http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-3/30000/ IUFRO 4.00.00, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/ 22-27 November 2012. Gender and Forestry Conference: Environmental governance and four decades of gender research: Where do we stand? Wondo Genet Forestry College, Ethiopia. IUFRO 6.08.00, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60800/ Contact: Gun Lidestav, Gun.Lidestav(at)slu.se http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/s/about-the-faculty/departments/srh-en/sections/forestresource-analysis/forest-in-rural-studies/gender-and-forestry-conference-2012/ 6-7 December 2012. Illegal Logging and Legality Verification The FLEGT / VPA as New Modes of Governance. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2012. Contact: Kirsten Carlsen: kica(at)life.ku.dk http://sl.life.ku.dk/English/outreach_publications/Conferences/flegt.aspx 13-15 March 2013. Small Log Conference. Forest Business Networks 6th Bi-Annual Small Log Conference. Coeur dAlene Resort in Coeur dAlene, Idaho. http://www.forestbusinessnetwork.com/our-events/slc/ July 22-25, 2013, the conference Forest Genetics 2013 will be held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. This conference is a joint meeting of four organizations: www.forestgenetics2013.ca WHILE SURFING THE WEBINTERESTING LINKS For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/ EARTHOBSERVER APP ON IPHONE - The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University has released an App called EarthObserver specifically for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. EarthObserver is available from the Education Category of the iTunes App Store. The app is free for a limited time. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earthobserver/id405514799?mt=8 COPYRIGHT NOTICE Items headlined in Forest Information Update are drawn from a number of sources. The source of the item is quoted, either by publication or organisations in line with the practice of fair reporting. Where necessary, Items are translated by TMS Ltd. Every effort is made to ensure use of paid wire service material is avoided at all times. Should users wish to utilize Forest Information Update on their own web sites, we request that this is done to accurately reflect the current layout to ensure attribution is appropriate.