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Find out the latest in forestry news in this week’s Forest Digest!

• Why these old-growth forests shouldn’t be on the chopping block — Mother Nature Network
  Take a journey to some of the last remaining old-growth forests throughout the world, and learn what is at stake for these important biomes.
• App Helps Crews Protect NW Forests From Wildfires — Northwest Public Radio
  A new app now can help foresters know which trees to target when attempting to thin a forest in efforts to protect it from megafires and disease.
• Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration — Eurekalert!
  A new series of studies looks at the effects of conservation and secondary forest regeneration throughout 43 different regions across Latin America.
• Urban farming: From floating food forests to vacant lot crops — Dailykos.com
  A look at how a growing movement in the U.S. of combining urban forests, urban farming and vacant land can help provide jobs, feed people and help the environment.