News
The latest news in IUFRO
2010-06-01
Scientific Summary No. 70, 2010
The SmallWood 2010 conference held April 20-22, 2010 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA and co-sponsored by IUFRO Division 5 addressed potential utilization options for small-diameter and underutilized trees. Enormous quantities of woody biomass are generated today from forestry businesses, fuel reduction and landscape restoration projects, forest thinning operations, insect infestations, and natural disasters such as hurricanes. These issues drive the need to create solutions for using low-value waste wood. New for SmallWood 2010 was a focus on timber bridges and potential opportunities for using small-diameter material in bridge applications. An evening session was dedicated to networking.
Download the full IUFRO Scientific Summary:
SmallWood 2010: Bridges, Business, and Biomass
By Chris Risbrudt, Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Division 5
LATEST NEWS
2010-08-28
On Saturday, 28 August, the last day of the IUFRO World Congress, the winners of IUFRO's Best Poster Award were announced.
2010-08-27
Current Executive Director Peter Mayer has been appointed Director of the Austrian BFW. Now IUFRO is seeking to fill the position based on secondment or a specific donor grant as of 1 November 2010.
2010-08-26
FORNESSA's Information Service (FORNIS) organizes and presents forest-related scientific information from Africa; thus, it will strengthen information exchange and African forestry research.
2010-08-23
The final draft of the IUFRO Strategy 2010-2014 is now open for comments!
2010-08-10
Edición especial con todos los artículos relacionados con los temas del XXIII Congreso Mundial IUFRO publicados entre Octubre 2009 y Julio 2010.
