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Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner Vangelis Marinakis says drug - trafficking charges against him are part of a Greek government - led «conspiracy» to

As Europe's largest private forest owner, we put great emphasis on sustainable forest management.

Speaking with DairyReporter.com, Juha Marttila, chairman, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), backed calls to the EC by Petteri Orpo, Finnish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, to provide compensation to dairy farmers impacted by the Russian export ban.

We had a three goal comeback in the last few minutes in the game between Rotherham and Derby, all hell breaking loose at Middlesbrough who went on to lose at Charlton where the fans are stepping up their protests against the owners, and the Nottingham Forest owners have done what they do best, they've sacked another manager.

Stefanie is now a resource for our Central MA region and offers one additional option for local forest owners to consider contacting when they have questions about forest conservation and stewardship.

He also pitched reforms to broaden and make more accessible tax incentives for private forest owners, a measure that would aid in conservation and strengthen the state's timber industry.

PLATTSBURGH Forestry associations, environmental groups and state lawmakers are asking the governor to prioritize reform of a program designed to preserve timberlands by giving private forest owners tax breaks and other incentives.

REDD will work in one of two ways: either with forest owners» earning credits that they can sell, as with Global Canopy, or by developed countries» contributing to a fund that would in turn pay developing countries to keep their forests intact.

«It wasn't the case that only forest owners who were planning to conserve anyway enrolled,» Jayachandran said.

Forest owners in another 61 villages in western Uganda received no monetary incentives.

«Family forest owners have a great, great love of their land and almost all of them want to do what is right by the land,» according to Brett Butler, a research forester with the Forest Service's Forest Inventory & Analysis Program and the study's lead author.

«Forest Service research is demonstrating the importance of family forest owners to conservation and providing information that will make programs that serve family forest owners more effective.»

With 1 in 5 acres of family forest land owned by people who are at least 75 years or older, and even more acres owned by people who are between 65 and 74 years of age, the question of who will own forests and what they will do with those lands in the future is significant for forest owners as well as land managers and communities.

«If we are interested in the future of the forests of the United States, we must be interested in those who own the land and in particular this means family forest owners who own a plurality of this vital resource,» said Tony Ferguson, Acting Director of the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Laboratory.

Financial objectives, such as land investment and timber production, are dominant objectives for far fewer family forest owners.

This does not mean they are inactive on their land; nearly half of the timber harvested in the U.S. comes from family forest lands, but only 13 percent of family forest owners have written forest management plans and only 20 percent had received professional forestry advice at the time of the survey.

New research by the USDA Forest Service reveals the motivations, management activities, future plans, and challenges faced by the nearly 11 million families, individuals, trusts, and estates, referred to as family forest owners.

But these trees also have a high materialistic value because harvesting lumber is one of the forest owners» major economic income.

The final part is a collection of reflections of local farmers, forest owners, and students who participated in the project.

Although priced like an add - on for existing Ori and the Blind Forest owners, the Definitive Edition is in no way compatible with the original (saves don't carry forward).

Through SFI program participants across North America, and Manomet's Climate Smart Land Network, the aim is to disseminate this management framework as widely as possible among forest managers and forest owners.

The lack of family forest offset projects is due to the fact that existing published IFM methodologies are either not applicable or not practical for this significant category of private forest owners, who own more forest land than the federal government.

The new methodology delivers enormous potential for family forest owners who manage 264 million acres, or 35 percent, of all U.S. forestland.

Family forest owners manage 264 million acres, or 35 percent, of all U.S. forestland, offering a sizeable potential to build on the Oregon pilot and expand the FHHH initiative.

Though New York already offers forest owners a tax reduction, they can only receive it if they have a plan to harvest trees — not the ideal incentive for promoting climate progress.

The pilot project will be among the first to use the ACR methodology that was developed specifically with family forest owners in mind.

The Forest Protection and Development Law stipulates both technical and institutional arrangements for forest management, protection and development, including the roles and responsibilities of the state and the forest owners.

«With PEFC's focus on enabling small - and family forest owners gain access to certification, Double A has brought the KHAN - NA initiative to the notice of PEFC in the last few years,» continued Mr. Leetavorn.

Purchasers of carbon credits also want contractual agreements with forest owners to guarantee the carbon stays in the forest, which may prevent local people from using the forest to grow food, fix a roof or even hunt for generations.

Through PEFC certification, forest owners and companies can demonstrate alignment with the new regulations, enabling their certified products to be imported into, and sold on, the EU market.

The funds will also be used to prepare for the implementation of the system and to work with small - forest owners to ensure they are able to achieve certification of their forests.

From supporting the development of national systems, to ensuring certification is accessible to the many small - and community forest owners, our work in this region is set to expand significantly in the coming years.

With PEFC's vast experience in providing cost - effective certification solutions for small forest owners, we are compelled to transfer this expertise to Southeast Asia where robust models for affordable group certification are drastically needed.

These points were recently emphasized in a set of guiding principles for including forests in climate change issued last month by the Forests Dialogue on Climate Change, a coalition consisting of more than 250 representatives of governments, forestry companies, trade unions, environmental and social groups, international organizations, forest owners, indigenous peoples and forest - community groups.

This will contribute to an acceleration in the use of certified forest products within the country, providing an incentive for forest owners and stakeholders within the supply chain of get themselves certified.

Then they divided the villages into two groups of 60 and 61 settlements with 564 and 535 private forest owners respectively.

Payments for forest carbon sequestration are an emerging opportunity for small forest owners to earn additional income and in turn to sustain both the economic and ecological values of the Northern Forest.

U.S. forests sequester 10 percent of all annual domestic carbon emissions, a figure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates could be doubled if forest owners engaged in more carbon sequestration activities.

Scientists in the US and Belgium used satellite data to identify 121 villages in forest districts and then made a census of 1,099 private forest owners in these villages.

Now research shows that paying private forest owners in Uganda reduced deforestation, adding to the debate on the use of monetary incentives in forest conservation.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

Yet, adoption of certification among family forest owners is low.

For each additional ton of carbon dioxide their trees store, forest owners earn a credit that they can sell to companies who wish to offset their emissions.

Carbon offset programs reward forest owners who adjust their land management practice to achieve greater carbon sequestration.

Two new reports summarize workshops convened by the Climate Change Roundtable Series, Climate Change Education: Engaging Private Forest Owners on Issues Related to Climate Change and Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business.

One part of the project was required to be «outreach» but we were supposed to start writing pamphlets for forest owners about how to mitigate climate change from day 1, before doing any of the research.

Confront Deforestation and Promote Carbon Sequestration: Obama will develop domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers, and ranchers when they plant trees, restore grasslands, or undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The D.C. office has also gained CATHERINE KAREN, formerly vice president for government affairs at the National Alliance of Forest Owners, as counsel in the government strategies group.

Washington, DC, USA About Blog Follow the latest news from the American Forest Foundation, a forest conservation non-profit that works with family forest owners to conserve wildlife, water, and clean air.

Not exact matches

Mr. Pinette's work in the Canadian forest industry began 40 years ago as an owner and President of a family lumber business, Pinette & Therrien Mills Ltd..