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The Motley Fool November 22, 2011 Jeremy Myers	A Hard Asset to Buy for This Market Buy the land and get the business for free.
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BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Mark L. Clifford	Rainforest Rescue Can sustainable logging succeed? A group experiment in Indonesia could show Big Timber the way.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest.
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Simon Cooper	Global Timber Smugglers--and How You Can Stop Them This multibillion-dollar black market business occurs in more than 70 countries, and contributes to the annual destruction of more than 32 million wooded acres. Here is a Guilt-Free Wood Buyer's Guide and Tips to Buy Safe Wood.
Wired August 21, 2007 David Wolman	Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging for Her Services David Brand, founder and director of a forestry investment business, is buying forests now to make money in the future from their existence.
Investment Advisor May 2007 James J. Green	Catching up with... The search for investments that consistently produce above-market returns, aren't correlated to the overall markets, and carry a relatively low minimum may have become a bit easier by the introduction this month of Wells Timberland REIT. This new fund is managed by Jess Jarratt.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Jeremy MacNealy	International Paper Turns Over a Greener Leaf? The paper giant aims to increase profitability and do more to protect the environment. Investors, sound crazy?
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2005 Darlene Bremer	Seeing the Forest through the Trees Timber REIT Rayonier branches out to foster long-term earnings growth.
This Old House C.J. Hughes	Buying 'Green' Flooring Join the ranks of consumers who are driving the market for "sustainable" products by following these 10 options for the eco-minded remodeler.
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson	Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests.
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BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin	A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Bill Mann	A Tale of Timber and Love Recent earnings at Plum Creek Timber, a Seattle-based real estate investment trust, have been pretty spectacular, as demand for timber from homebuilders and other construction remains high.
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
Financial Advisor November 2009 Thomas J. Straka	Does Your Client Own Timberland? - Part II Over ten million individuals and families own timberland. Is it a neglected aspect of your client's portfolio?
Wired February 2007 Michael Behar	Reservoir Logs A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green.
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2006 Sherri Alms	A Win/Win Proposition The Blandin Foundation championed inclusivity across sectors to promote healthy forests and communities -- and along the way won the 2006 Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement.
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz	Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.
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Salon.com June 9, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard	The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis.
National Gardening April 2000 Alex Wilson	Naturally Rot-Resistant Woods Though sometimes hard to come by, they are nature's answer to the problem of decay
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Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
Outside June 2003 Douglas Gantenbein	We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Steven Renaldi	Plum Creek Sees Land Rush Plum Creek Timber's quarterly results reflect decreased demand for lumber, but land sales still seem profitable.
Outside March 2005 Bruce Barcott	As a Matter of Fact, Money Does Grow on Trees With an anti-environmental backlash inflicting one defeat after another on conservationists, a band of maverick economists is riding to the rescue with a startling revelation about the true value of our natural resources: Follow the money, and you end up in a very green place.
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The Motley Fool July 26, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Good Wood Plum Creek is a well-managed timber REIT, but should investors still pile into this hot sector?
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Pathways to survival The tiny world of a little Brazilian monkey gets bigger---and just in time.
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TIME Asia June 20, 2011 Brendan Brady	Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Alexandra Wolfe	Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees.
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IDB America January 2006	We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest.
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