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Who famously penned a poem about a tree?

Answer: Joyce Kilmer composed the most famous poem about a tree. The first six lines of the poem are shown below:

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

Brazilian agents cracked down on schemes involving hundreds of companies covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. Ibama identified more than 220 companies and 21 logging concessions engaged in activities designed to disguise the origin of illegal wood.

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A "social forestry" program run by the Indonesian government to grant land rights to local communities has been ineffective in preventing deforestation. A new study found: that forest loss actually increased in community-titled forests aimed at conservation.

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A forester and professor at the University of British Columbia said that "research has shown that the optimal landscape-level carbon sequestration policy may be to harvest and replant stands when they reach their peak growth rate. Ideally we would use the harvested forest material - wood and fibre - to displace as much fossil fuel, steel, and concrete as possible, to reduce carbon dioxide releases."

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The dramatic increase in U.S. imports of hardwood flooring was largely due to increases in imports from Indonesia and Malaysia.

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