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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian French and Will Koomjian are certified tree geeks. Beyond the arborist certification from the International Society of Arboriculture that allows them to care for the trees in your yard, they each have a passion for trees that runs so deeply, one suspects they might be carriers of a rare tree gene. Trees are that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=119&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Geeks, Pt. 2: Climbing Big Trees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pt. 1, Pt. 3, Pt. 4 Champion trees are the largest of their species worldwide. That doesn’t always mean that they are the biggest trees around. In fact, it is rare for a tree to reach above 150 feet. Ascending the Giants has climbed many champions that aren’t especially big. Then again, they have climbed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=124&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Geeks, Pt. 3: The National Registry of Big Trees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 4 Before there were national or state forests, forest schools or professional foresters, a tiny group of forest-lovers started the American Forestry Association in 1875 and, according to the group’s website AmericanForests.org, the conservancy movement was inaugurated. The group eventually changed its name to American Forests and has been instrumental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=128&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Geeks, Pt. 4: Finding Champions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3 French and Koomjian know a champion when they see one. By the time they arrive at a champion tree, they have thoroughly researched the species, have most likely climbed that species a few times already and have a pretty good sense of what to expect. However, nothing completely prepares [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=132&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Forest is Forever</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Ode magazine, April 2009 If a tree falls in a sustainably managed forest, does it have market value? Peter and Pam Hayes would like the answer to be an unequivocal “yes.” The Hayes manage Hyla Woods, an 800-acre, family-owned forest in the northern Oregon Coast Range that produces sustainably managed timber certified by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=102&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Trees &#8211; Where out on a limb is a great place to be</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Originally published in Travel Oregon magazine. It is impossible to think of Oregon without thinking of trees. After all, 28 million acres—or 45 percent—of land in Oregon is classified as forestland.  Oregon’s state tree, the Douglas Fir, dominates the landscape along the 1-5 corridor and creates a magnificent backdrop in any season. Spiky, graceful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=74&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Oregon/Washington Bureau of Land Management is not being a very good neighbor</title>
		<link>http://kristinkaye.com/2008/03/21/oregons-old-growth-forests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Eisler is a private land owner whose 80 acres lie in the valley bottom of the coast range of the Siuslaw National Forest between Eugene and Florence. His neighbor is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an arm of the US Department of the Interior, which owns 2.5-million forested acres mixed like a checkerboard into the area between the Willamette and Rogue Valleys and the Cascade and Coast Ranges. Eisler’s property is sandwiched between two BLM late successional reserves—a mixture of old growth trees and multi-age tree stands that have been preserved to cultivate old growth habitat.

However, the old growth stands that flank Eisler’s property are in serious jeopardy. In August, 2007, the BLM proposed a revision to their longstanding forest management plan. Their current plan takes its mandate from the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) which was adopted to protect local economies dependant on timber dollars and wildlife dependant on old growth habitat that were threatened by heavy logging.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristinkaye.com&amp;blog=1915744&amp;post=71&amp;subd=kristinkaye&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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