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If you’re a fan of Busch beer then this one’s for you: As Fast and Company reported, this Saturday Busch Beer will sponsor a secret pop-up shop (the “Busch Pop Up Schop”) that will last for one day—in a national forest somewhere in America. Attendees will receive free merchandise, with one winner getting free Busch for life. People can follow along on Twitter to decipher clues to that spot ahead of time. But that’s not all: through work with the National Forest Foundation, Busch has pledged to plant 100 trees for each person who reaches its party spot. Cheers to that!
by Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer The British government will pay landowners for creating new woodlands thanks to a new £16 million program by the country’s Forestry Commission. The fund will financially reward woodlands that help wildlife, increase public access, and reduce flooding, The Guardian reports. It’ll provide money for planting trees as well as […]
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by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer As wildfires have become increasingly common across the West, there’s been a growing emphasis on forest management as a means of preventing and mitigating the effects of blazes. Emerging science suggests that a new way of replanting forests could protect areas from fires — rather than planting trees individually, […]
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by Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer The Biden administration has announced that it will “replace or repeal” a Trump rollback of the Clinton-Era “roadless rule” in the Tongass National Forest. The roadless rule protected 9.4 million acres of the forest, prohibiting road construction and timber harvesting. The Trump administration rolled back the rule in October 2020 to ease […]
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