USDA National Agroforestry Center NAC's Blog http://www.unl.edu/nac en-us ryandee@fs.fed.us ryandee@fs.fed.us 15 Smokey's back! "Get your Smokey on!" http://www.smokeybear.com/ Three new Agroforestry Notes are available They focus on landscape assessments and planning. In case you wonder where AF Note #37 is, it has been assigned to a forthcoming Note to be published this fall. http://www.unl.edu/nac/agroforestrynotes.htm Short Rotation Crops International Conference August 18-22, 2008, Bloomington, Minnesota http://www.cinram.umn.edu/srwc First call for papers 11th North American Agroforestry Conference http://www.centerforagroforestry.org/events/afta/index.asp#FCFP Small, but mighty What could it be? http://www.unl.edu/nac/insideagroforestry.htm As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation "We're in a crisis here. Do we want to eat, or do we want to worry about the birds?" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09conserve.html?_r=2&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might Researchers make breakthrough in creating gasoline from plant matter, with almost no carbon footprint. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/nsf-mdg040708.php Prairie grass energy boost studied in the field Using switchgrass as a biofuel yields five times more energy than is used to grow it. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080107/full/news.2008.415.html Sweet on silvopasture Another issue of our newsletter to whet your appetite for agroforestry. http://www.unl.edu/nac/insideagroforestry.htm Nutrient runoff deforming frogs The deformed frogs have been a puzzle for more than a decade. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/25/deformed.frogs.ap/index.html Seeing the non-timber forest products for the trees Our latest issue of "Inside Agroforestry" is available. http://www.unl.edu/nac/insideagroforestry.htm As bees go missing, a $9.3B crisis lurks The mysterious disappearance of millions of bees is fueling fears of an agricultural disaster, writes Fortune's David Stipp. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/09/03/100202647/index.htm Our <em>Working Trees For Wildlife</em> brochure has been revised! Our Working Trees brochure has been revised! http://www.unl.edu/nac/wildlife.htm On fringe of forests, homes and fires meet "[F]ederally owned public lands continue to attract more people as they evolve into something they were never intended to be: a real-estate amenity." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/us/26fire.html?hp Beyond the fence line Our latest newsletter encourages you to get to know your neighbors. http://www.unl.edu/nac/insideagroforestry.htm