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The new strategy calls for the U.S. Forest Service to treat up to an additional 20 million acres on national forests and grasslands and to support treatment of up to an additional 30 million acres. The recent infrastructure law provided nearly $3 billion to do so. In recent years, more than 10 million acres have burned nationwide.

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In a recent Floor Daily Podcast, DHA President Keith Christman highlighted consumers' strong preference for the beauty and character of real wood. He emphasized DHA's priority policy issues, which include labor, the supply chain, and trade.

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Decorative Hardwoods Association (formerly HPVA) eNews Volume XV, Issue I: Vietnam's Wood Products Exports To The U.S. Up 24% | U.S. Hardwood Flooring Imports Grow By 25% | Young Managed Forests & Forest Products Sequester More Carbon | 200+ Companies Targeted In Illegal Logging Crackdown In Brazil

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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