Today’s weatherSunnyHigh 90Low 56

ForecastSince finals start in ten days, the warmer weather and

procrastination has me contemplating one big question: Should I study or go to the Rec Pool? #collegestudentproblems

Kenneth Doss, atmospheric science majorAggie Forecasting Team

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High 93Low 57

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The Davis city council race is heating up. Volunteers passionate about the race’s

candidates are apparently ripping down signs and blocking others’. Who knew Davis could

contain so much drama?

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UC community members to comment on campus protest report

Les Jeudis de la Francophonie brings together an international community

Q&A: Matt Carmichael New police chief to update old policies

The Davis French Club meets every Thursday at Delta of Venus

Deadline for public comment on report extended to June 8By MICHELLE MURPHY

Aggie News Writer

The University of California has extended the deadline for members of the UC communi-ty to comment on the Robinson-Edley draft report from May 25 to June 8, with the hopes of encour-aging more input. In their report, UC General Counsel Charles F. Robinson and Christopher F. Edley Jr., dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, pro-vide 50 recommendations in nine categories including: civil disobe-dience challenges, relationship building, role definition and co-ordination, hiring and training, communications with protest-ers, response during events, doc-umenting activity during demon-strations, post-event review and implementation.

“This report highlights the re-sponsibility, shared by all mem-bers of the university communi-ty, to ensure that the rights of free speech are respected — in fact honored — and that peaceful, lawful protests exist on our cam-puses,” Robinson said in a UC press release. “At the same time, it is important to recognize the role that civil disobedience may play in such demonstrations, and the attendant consequences.” The report states that their goal is to identify practices that will not only facilitate free speech, but will also protect the health and safety of everyone involved. “For some campus administra-tors and police, this will require a substantial shift away from a mindset that has been focused primarily on the maintenance of order and adherence to rules and

regulations,” the report states. “For some protesters, this will re-quire taking more responsibility for their activities as well, includ-ing educating themselves about protest-related rules and consid-ering the impact acts of civil dis-obedience can have on others in the campus community.” University staff, faculty, alumni and students are encouraged to make thoughtful and construc-tive comments about how the re-port’s recommendations might be strengthened. “We think it’s important to in-clude the campus community. The University of California tries to have an open and inclusive en-vironment, and we want to make sure that the campus communi-ty, not just students, but staff, fac-ulty, everyone, has an opportuni-ty to weigh in on things that af-

fect them,” said Brooke Converse, media specialist with the Office of the President. According to Converse, 33 peo-ple have commented on the draft so far with a mix of students, staff, faculty, alumni and community members contributing. After all the recommendations come, they will be reviewed and assessed on how they might af-fect the current draft report. The final report will be posted by late June, then forwarded to the UC President for processing. After the president receives the report, the recommendations will be reviewed and some will be im-plemented across UC campus-es. The UC Office of the President did not have a specific time frame for this process. According to Katheryn Kolesar, civil and environmental engi-

neering graduate student and chair of the UC Davis Graduate Student Association, it is essen-tial for students, staff and facul-ty to have a say in how the poli-cies are changed, since it is the UC community who is directly af-fected by the changes. “I am an optimist, and I have seen where students and faculty have been listened to by kind of the up-per administration. Yeah, it doesn’t always happen, but that shouldn’t stop you from at least speaking your thoughts with the hopes that they will listen,” Kolesar said. To review the draft report and make a comment, visit campus-protestreport.universityofcalifor-nia.edu. All comments must be submitted by June 8.

MICHELLE MURPHY can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

By MEE YANGAggie News Writer

During the springtime, every Thursday night at Delta of Venus is bound to have at least one French-speaking individual pres-ent. Delta of Venus has become an ide-al location for many foreigners to gather and socialize, especially the Davis French Club. Among this sea of diversity is the French Club called “Les Jeudis de la Francophonie.” “‘Les Jeudis de la Francophonie’ means ‘French speaking,’” said Fred Vincent, an active member of the club and associate staff researcher. “It is a very informal club because people show up at different times; we eat, drink and have a good time just talking.” The club is made up of all different types of age groups such as undergraduate stu-dents, graduate students, Ph.D candidates, community members, working people and others. The different nationalities of the people who speak French also help enrich the social gathering. “The coolest thing was that over the years, we’ve had Belgian, Swiss, Senegalese, Asian, North African and more Europeans who all spoke French,” said Richard Day, co-founder of Les Jeudis de la Francophonie. Today, the majority of participants speak fluent French. Occasionally, a few people who would like to improve their French speaking skills also attend. The atmosphere of the French Club is similar to a family unit, said Pauline Maillard, a frequent attendant of the club

and a post-doctorate student at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. “When you leave France, you [have] ‘lost’ family and friends,” Maillard said. “Here, you rebuild your social environment.” For Maillard, it was comforting to be among familiar faces and to receive help on how to navigate through Davis or through American life — such as how to

obtain a phone, a driver’s license and oth-er necessities. Sometimes there can be as many as 20 people and as little as four people, Day said. “It is very informal and really depends on who you are chatting with,” Day said. “I think the majority of the native speakers are willing to speak slower and converse

with people who are learning.” At the beginning of the club about 20 years ago, the club’s purpose was to give French people an opportunity to come to-gether and relate their experiences and ad-aptations to Davis, Day said. The number of people who show up varies, Vincent said. During the sum-mer and winter, very few people show up due to summer travels or bad weath-er. The club generally sees a large num-ber of people during the fall and spring when everyone is back from their ad-ventures, and when the weather is full of sunshine. The club has its roots back in the ear-ly 1990s when Day, who is half French, was active in the international circle and worked in the French department, be-gan the club and deemed it “Le Cercle Francophone.” The French Club first met at Café Roma, located on Third Street. Upon the closure of Café Roma in 2007, the club was moved to Delta of Venus and has remained there. Since then, there have been many people in and out of the club. “I love Delta of Venus,” Maillard said. “Its patio, food, the people working there, the music; I feel like being in the backyard of a friend’s house.” “What I like best is the connection that I make and meeting new people,” Vincent said. Everyone is welcome to the club, which meets every Thursday at Delta of Venus at 9 p.m.

MEE YANG can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

By DANIELLE HUDDLESTUNAggie News Writer

Serving in his new role for near-ly a month, UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael has begun imple-menting changes within the police department. Carmichael has signed with Lexipol, a public safety risk man-agement company, that charg-es $6,000 per year to routinely up-date policies. He said that he enjoys working as a team in the police sta-tion and being a member of the UC Davis community. Carmichael and consultant Paul Harman will hold their first Town Hall meeting on Tuesday to get input from students before summer about what changes they would like to see made.

The Aggie: How do you feel about being the new police chief?Carmichael: I am extremely excited and very encouraged. It is an amaz-ing opportunity, one I am not will-ing to squander. I will make good changes.

What are some of the changes you plan to make?Policy. Some of our policies are out of date by eight years. Policy is the

foundation of organization and def-initely in need of a change. I signed a contract with the risk manage-ment company Lexipol. Basically we are going to take every policy and it’s going to be new. Good policy has to stay updated. If you ask me how of-ten my policy is updated, I would say that it is routinely updated. Lexipol is used for large organizations, from

the California Department of Justice down to the West Sacramento Police Department. We are the ninth UC school to sign with Lexipol. The UC Davis Fire Department is current-ly using it. In order to do it, I have hired Paul Harman, a retired lieu-tenant from L.A. County, also with

Charles Setchell, who graduated from UC Davis in 1975, will visit cam-pus today and Thursday to speak about his work with the United States Agency of International Assistance (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. He has been their senior shelter, settlements, and hazard mitigation advisor for 14 years, responding to everything from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to ongo-ing turmoil in Afghanistan. Today, Setchell will host an information ses-sion at the Internship and Career Center from 2 to 4 p.m., and from 5 to 6:30 p.m. he will meet with the Engineers Without Borders Club in Ghausi Hall. On Thursday, he will attend an open Peace Corps event at the International House from 7 to 9 p.m. His specialty is disas-ter risk reduction, which requires a systematic and

immediate approach to assessing and avoiding potential risks to disaster. Although Setchell initial-ly fell in love with cities by visiting San Francisco with his parents once or twice a month, he said UC Davis’ undergraduate program set him on a path toward a career in urban planning and crisis management. “I’m really looking for-ward to getting on cam-pus again and speaking to current students and fac-ulty. I kind of wish there had been someone when I was an undergrad with the kind of background I have now, that I’ve developed over time, to provide a big-ger picture of the world than I recall ever hav-ing. Hopefully I will spark someone to join the Peace Corps or get involved with international develop-ment,” Setchell said.

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This past weekend, I deactivated my Facebook profile.

Not because finals week is coming up — I’m not one of those people who quit social networking be-fore major tests. Why give up my preferred method of distraction and primary means of procrastination? No, I was just tired of basi-cally every-thing on my newsfeed. Social net-working gets overwhelm-ingly un-derwhelming sometimes. You have to dig through so much junk to find that one attention-worthy update. But last week something did come across my news-feed that actually provoked some kind of thought in me. It was a link to a video of Will Smith at the Moscow premiere of his new movie Men in Black III. Smith was making his way down the red carpet when he came across this very enthusias-tic male reporter. The reporter excited-ly hugged the actor, then proceeded to kiss him on the cheeks multiple times. Yes, Will Smith is one of the most successful actors in the industry and, yes, he has traveled the world. However, at the end of the day, he is still a black man from Philly. You don’t just come up to a black man from Philly and start kiss-ing him. You don’t come up to anyone you don’t know and start kissing them. Talk about an invasion of per-sonal space! In reaction, the visibly disgruntled actor shoved the overzealous reporter away and gave him a smart slap to the side of his face with the back of his hand. He didn’t hit him hard enough to make lasting damage, but a clear mes-sage was sent nonetheless. Will turned to a shocked member of his “people” (his publicist, perhaps?) and said, “He tried to kiss me on the mouth!” He also let it be known that if the cam-eras hadn’t been rolling, he would’ve sucker punched the guy. My initial reaction to the video was uncontrollable

laughter. How hilariously awkward! Even worse, the reporter had the most inno-cent look on his face and it was clear that he didn’t un-derstand what had hap-pened. After doing a lit-tle research, I learned that greeting stars with a kiss on the cheek was the reporter’s “thing.” There was no mal-ice behind his act. The research result was a confirmation of some-thing I had suspected from the very start. This was a clear case of cultures clash-ing. Having been born in France and spent time in Europe, I know firsthand that the American standard and the European stan-dard when it comes to per-sonal space are very dif-ferent. Americans are all about their personal space. Europeans are a little more … friendly, so to speak. The funny part was that,

although I under-stood where the reporter was com-ing from,

I totally identified with Will Smith. I like my personal space. I don’t know if it’s be-cause of my individual pref-erence or the influence of American culture. It’s prob-ably a bit of both, but I real-ly don’t like my immediate space to be infringed upon. Some of the most uncom-fortable moments of my life occurred due to person-al space invasions. From sitting on an airplane or a crowded bus, to having a conversation with some-one who is standing a little too close, there have been times that felt way more in-timate than the occasion required. The key to space viola-tions is context. The who, what, when, where and why totally matter. When the five W’s are all work-ing in your favor, getting close can actually be a good thing. That unexpected hug from someone that you’d love to be friends with, or when the person you like fi-nally makes a move. Have you ever seen a male pro-fessional sports team cele-brating a big win? They’re jumping all over each oth-er, slapping each oth-er’s butts, giving each oth-er congratulatory punches, etc. If Will Smith had just won the Super Bowl and his teammate kissed him on the cheek, I don’t think he would’ve reacted the same way. Next time you enter someone’s personal space, think before you act and put yourself in their shoes. You’ll save yourself a slap, or much worse.

Contact PAMELA NONGA NGUE at pamnonga@ucdavis.edu.

During Memorial Day weekend, a large part of the student

body takes a vacation from their usual lives and at-tempts to live a weekend in the life of a pirate, dar-ing their bodies to fight off scurvy as they subsist off a combination of booze, burgers and sunlight. Since my attempt at surviving HB2K10 was barely a success and required a week-long coma to sleep off the hangover, I made oth-er plans. I decided to take a vacation of my own and go back to my hometown. Merriam and her pal Webster define vacation as “a respite or a time of re-spite from something.” This dynamic duo defines re-spite as “an interval of rest or relief.” By these defini-tions, the weekend I had was a far cry from a vaca-tion. And I’m sure our Aggie pirates feel the same. These past few days were packed with so many activ-ities it was like my life’s bed-room had just been convert-ed to bunk beds. There were family dinners, family lunch-es, family birthday parties, parties with friends, lunches with friends, barbecues with family friends, trips to bars, late-night talks, midday talks, afternoon talks and even a night of babysitting and mov-ies. Any moment I had to my-self was spent sleeping or writing this. Did the weekend even qualify as a vacation? I brought this up to a friend of mine on the last day of my “vacation” and he made a good point. These are the types of vacations people are expected to take. We take vacations to go rock climbing, backpacking and camping, to see land-marks, monuments and museums. Our vacations aren’t intervals of rest or re-lief; we take vacations to go do something we don’t usu-ally do. In a way these are vaca-tions are “a time of respite from something,” and that something is our normal, everyday life. We get tired of our jobs, school, people, or just feel like we need to get away for a while, need

a change in environment. That’s perfectly natural. Repeatedly doing the same thing every day, week af-ter week, can make us feel like zombies or robots with lives predetermined by our programming. A vacation can feel like the only way to keep our sanity. But why do we feel the need to fill our vacation days with so many plans that make us just as tired, if not more tired, than we were before? Where is the rest and relief? Longtime readers may re-member that way back in last week’s column I chid-ed people for “doing noth-ing,” imploring them to get out there and live their lives. Short-time readers may re-member that today’s col-umn seems to be about peo-ple doing too much and not doing “nothing” enough. Both types of readers may

think there’s a contradic-tion here. But the long and short of it is, I don’t think so.

Last week I said we live our lives through a prism of “no regrets,” that this idea can prevent people from taking action for fear of re-gretting it later. But just as a prism refracts light into dif-ferent colors, this idea can also elicit different reactions from different people. Some people interpret “no regrets” to mean “don’t waste your time” — they think life is short and the world is huge so they use every opportu-nity to experience both. It’s a wonderful idea, but it still has its faults. To start, life is not short, it’s the longest thing we’ll ever do. But it can feel short if we never take the time to appreciate it, to stop and smell the roses, as people like to say. And it’s hard to smell the ros-es when we’re skydiving in between our trips to Mount Rushmore and the six cit-ies that claim to house The World’s Largest Frying Pan. At some point, a life spent circling the globe can be an epic of time wasted, as well. Maybe I’m just exhaust-ed from my busy weekend and I’m venting because I wish I had spent more time lying around than play-ing around. But after tak-ing my own advice and do-ing the opposite of noth-ing for a weekend, I learned something. Sometimes we need to do nothing; it gives us time to think, reflect and appreciate the things we have done. The whole time, one thought refused to leave my tired mind: God, I need a vacation.

For the next few days, NOLAN SHELDON will be vacationing at nosheldon@ucdavis.edu.

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chill dayNoon to 2 p.m.The QuadThe UC Davis Campus Judicial Board is hosting its annual “Chill Day” event in which they will be giving out free sno-cones. In light of upcoming finals, the theme is: “Chill out,” Relax and Don’t Cheat!

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Food addicts in recovery anonymous7 to 8:30 pmDavis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson RoadFree yourself from excess weight and/or obsessional thoughts about food and body image. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Meetings are open and free to the public. Go to www.foodaddicts.org for other meeting locations.

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two-part production from the Uc davis department of theatre and dance8 to 10 p.m.Main Theatre, WrightWatch this two-part production including the world premiere of and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead by Granada Artist-in-Residence Ellen Bromberg and a celebration of the work of Professor Della Davidson through choreography and performances by her longtime collaborators. Tickets are $17-19 for general and $12-14 for students, children and seniors.

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Senior recital5 to 6 p.m.115 MusicListen to this free recital as Aaron Hill plays clarinet.

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Two men’s basketball players transfer away Former Aggie basketball players Alex Tiffin and Mike Kurtz announced their de-parture from UC Davis earlier this quar-ter, and their destinations have now been confirmed. According to The Los Angeles Times, Tiffin will be crossing the Causeway to play for Sacramento State next year. The Thousand Oaks, Calif. native started 14 of the 30 games he played and posted an average of 3.3 points per game. Tiffin contributed one point and one rebound against his future team in the Aggies’ 61-69 loss to the Hornets this season. It was previously rumored that Tiffin

was considering Chaminade University in Honolulu in addition to Sac State. Kurtz will take his talents down south to Biola University. The seven-footer red-shirted the 2011-12 season after seeing substantial playing time his freshman year, when he posted 2.4 points per game and a .323 shooting percentage from three-point range. Biola is an NAIA institution and Kurtz will have three years of eligibility remaining. In addition to Kurtz and Tiffin, soph-omore Harrison Dupont and freshman Tyrell Corbin announced earlier this spring that they will not be returning to the Aggies’ roster next year.

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14 years of experience on the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. He still has con-nections and will be here for six months. At that point, the post-audit will be done.

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tionally recognized, it is really cool stuff. Now that I am the boss, I am going to make the hiring pro-cess more community-based. I don’t think there is anything too similar in any other department. In the future, the panel up front will be based 20 percent law enforcement officials and 80 percent being community mem-bers. In the end candi-dates will reflect inter-est from the community. We currently have made three conditional hiring offers to add to our staff.

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carbon for a longer period of time. However, when the trees are used for bioenergy or paper, almost all of their stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, contributing to greenhouse gases. “If the wood is put into products like lumber (e.g. 2-by-4s) and wood pan-els (e.g. plywood), the carbon is stored until they are sent to the landfill where decay begins or they are burned,” Earles said. “As wood decomposes, or when it’s burned, carbon is released to the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas, typically carbon dioxide or methane.” The researchers looked specif-ically at comparing the amounts and endurance of carbon in trees that are burned on-site versus those that are removed and used as wood products. “We tried to follow the lifecycle of the wood once they left the forest and the fate of these products that they are

turned into,” said Yeh, research sci-entist with the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The results of their study could hold implications for biofuel incentives in different regions. The researchers found that wood products in tropical countries stored very little carbon in comparison to temperate forests. “In countries with predominant-ly temperate forests, such as the U.S., Canada, and many European coun-tries, we found that between 30 and 40 percent of carbon is still stored as wood products 30 years after defores-tation,” Earles said. What this means for the global en-vironment is that the American bio-fuel industry may change its meth-ods of outsourcing. For example, if the U.S. decides to provide an in-centive for corn ethanol, less-prof-itable crops like soybeans may go to other countries. In the process, the new country will have to clear out forests to provide room for the new crops. “The biofuel policies [of the U.S.

and E.U.] greatly expand the demands for biofuel feedstock, sometimes by displacing forest land or existing ag-ricultural land, which in turn lead to more conversion of forest land for the displaced agricultural production,” Yeh said. According to Skog, the supervi-sory research forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, greenhouse gas emissions have been decreasing since 2005. “Scientific research is continuing to better identify what the smarter choices are concerning use of natural resources to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions,” Skog said. The destination of the displaced agricultural production and the way the wood from that forest land is used would impact how much car-bon would be emitted into the atmo-sphere. This information could help reduce the overall possible emission of greenhouse gases from these glob-al crops.

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one very important benefit in that it returns organic matter to soil. [This] organic matter has many positive benefits to soil’s physi-cal, chemical and biological prop-erties,” said Michael Singer, a pro-fessor emeritus in the department of land, air and water resources at UC Davis.

A major factor contributing to this loss in organic matter is that much of what is taken out

of the soil is not put back in. As Nakamura explained, instead of composting, people often send decomposable waste to a land-fill, where it becomes compacted with waste that is not decompos-able, keeping the natural process from occurring.

But despite the complexity of the science behind composting, Kim said the practice of com-posting is actually quite sim-ple and that anyone can com-post. While putting plates from the MU into the compost bin is a good start, students can also

do it in their own apartments or homes.

Both Kim and Nakamura agree that the easiest way to compost in a dorm or apartment is by us-ing vermicomposting, a type of composting using a specific spe-cies of worms called red wigglers. The red wigglers do most of the breakdown process, so that the compost needs less bacteria and fungi.

Using this method, students can keep their compost inside in a confined bin.

“[Vermicomposting] is ideal

for apartments because it’s con-fined, small, and basically the worms do all the work for you. All you have to do is feed them the decomposable material,” Nakamura said.

Project Compost holds free workshops throughout the year giving an in-depth tutorial on how to practice vermicomposting and starting participants off with their own worm bins. Other workshops are held throughout the year as well on other ways students can incorporate composting into their lives.

Project Compost’s next work-shop is on June 2 in front of the Tri-Co-ops.

Kim believes the most important aspect of composting for students is that it makes them aware of the state of today’s environment.

“It brings people closer to the earth, gives them more under-standing about the impacts of liv-ing the way we do and is a great start to learning about the envi-ronment,” Kim said.

CLAIRE MALDARELLI can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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The science and practice of compostingBy CLAIRE MALDARELLI

Aggie Science Writer

As a student at UC Davis, one of the most prominent agricultur-al universities in the country, you are probably well aware of the practice of composting. However, other than throwing away your decomposable garbage in the designated “Compost Bins” at the MU, you may not know much about it.

But many students and UC Davis professors argue that com-posting is not only vital to our soil and environment as a whole, but also fun, easy and doable no mat-ter where you live.

In simple terms, composting is the decomposition of plant ma-terials and other once-living or-

ganisms into a stable, dirt-like composition known as humus. However, the science of compost-ing can also be very complex.

“Composting requires four main [ingredients] for it to work effective-ly: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and water,” said Natsuki Nakamura, a junior environmental science and management major and piles di-rector at Project Compost, a stu-dent-run and -funded unit dedi-cated to composting.

As Nakamura explained, each of these four ingredients has a specific purpose for the microbes that decompose the once-living organisms in the compost pile.

Carbon is specifically needed for energy and high carbon ma-terials tend to be brown and dry. Nitrogen is needed for building proteins, which in turn would help grow and reproduce more microorganisms. Oxygen and wa-

ter are added to speed up the de-composition process.

Oxygen is especially important

because most microorganisms in the compost pile work in an aero-bic, or with oxygen, environment.

“Oxygen is what accounts for the heat in compost piles. The ox-idation of carbon by the microor-ganisms produces heat. Often, it can get hot enough that the com-post pile begins to steam, which is pretty cool,” Nakamura said.

Science aside, composting is most importantly a simple means to help the environment.

“Compost is a viable resource for gardening and agriculture. Any diversion of the waste we produce would be beneficial to prevent detrimental effects to the environment and to humans,” said Alisa Kim, student unit di-rector at Project Compost.

Composting is important to the environment in many ways, but mainly it helps restore soil to its most ideal state.

“Adding compost to soils has

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The volume of greenhouse gas re-leased when a forest is cleared de-pends on the part of the world where the trees are grown and how they will be used, according to a new study by UC Davis researchers. In the study, lead author and doc-toral student with the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Jeffrey Mason Earles, along with Sonia Yeh and Kenneth E. Skog, found that when trees are felled to create solid wood products such as furniture or lumber for housing, the wood stores

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