But sustainability also depends on other factors (social responsibility and economic development, among other things), and
timber management must take them all into consideration.
I share your thoughts regarding waste, pollution, clear thinking land use and
timber management and much more.
A significant portion of the U.S. red alder resource is not available for harvest; forest practices rules constrain
timber management in riparian areas where red alder is most abundant.
A new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society states that deforestation has slowed as «controlled
timber management» schemes have taken effect and agricultural expansion into forests has slowed.
MNR insists that the plan complies with all government rules, including the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994, the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006, the 2004 Forest Management Planning Manual (FMPM) for Ontario's Crown Forests (2004), and the Class Environmental Assessment for
Timber Management on Crown Land in Ontario.4 Sounds good, doesn't it?
A long, bruising environmental assessment (
the Timber Management EA) had shown that we were ravaging Crown forests with a short term focus on extracting the most timber now, damaging the future of the forests and everything that lived there.
* Construction of ponds, fire lanes,
timber management, fencing, and many other duties associated with land management.
Our teams spend countless days with a booth at some of the top industry shows, including; the Dallas Safari Club International's Convention, International Sportsmen's Expo, Farm and Agriculture shows, Forestry and
Timber Management shows, Real Estate and Land Convention.
Here you'll find articles of interest reviewing the Hickman family hardwood products and service companies: Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring, Hickman Lumber Company, and Hickman
Timber Management.
Larry Hickman has always maintained that proper
timber management is like tending a garden.
The oak trees come from FSC managed forests which are managed by Hickman
Timber Management.
(This is where proper
timber management comes in by cutting down a mature tree to open up the canopy and allow those little babies to grow).
Not exact matches
But Sino - Forest disclosed in its
management discussion and analysis for both the first and second quarters of 2010 that the revenue was generated by selling standing
timber, meaning the company did not cut down and transport any of these trees.
Ari Levy, manager of TD Asset
Management's resource fund, says eastern
timber companies aren't the same as western ones.
lan, direct, or coordinate the
management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries,
timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments.
They plan, direct, or coordinate the
management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries,
timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments.
Prior to founding Cordillera, Gus was a Partner at Makena Capital
Management where he was responsible for Makena's private and liquid Natural Resources investments in energy, power, mining, agriculture,
timber, and commodities.
However, with business
management training, technical assistance and legal support from the Rainforest Alliance, the cooperative is now producing one million board - feet of
timber per year and projects sales of US$ 130,000 for 2015 — the kind of success that demonstrates that healthy landscapes and thriving communities go hand - in - hand.
Professor David Midmore, of Central Queensland University, has been involved in an Australian government - funded aid project that investigated silvicultural
management of bamboo for shoots and
timber in the Philippines and Australia.
The GOP noticed the Nov. 2 contribution to the local party's operating committee from Jacob's
Timber Lake
Management Corp. on the state Board of Elections 24 - notice list and cried foul.
The Forestry Commission's function is to create, protect and manage the permanent forest estates and protected areas in the various ecological zones of the country to conserve Ghana's biophysical heritage, prepare and implement integrated forest and wildlife
management plans for the maintenance of the environment to the benefit of all segments of society and to regulate the harvesting of
timber, wildlife and other non-
timber forest products among others.
It also would exempt various forest
management activities from filing environmental impact statements and would provide for expedited
timber salvage operations and reforestation activities after catastrophic events.
About 500 workers of the
timber firm held their
management, the Chief Executive of the firm and the MCE, Alhaji Mohammed Kwaku Doku who were having a meeting hostage over a six - month unpaid salaries.
Under the plan, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management authorized 23
timber sales around the Umpqua River in southwestern Oregon with the NMFS stamp of approval.
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.
«Since many semi-arid regions with banded vegetation are used for grazing and / or
timber, this prediction has significant implications for land
management,» Sherratt says.
In recent years, humans have been introducing exotic earthworm species from Europe and Asia through fishing,
timber harvesting, municipal green waste
management and gardening.
Street Furniture is dedicated to best practice in environmental
management and its products are made from premium materials, locally sourced where possible, and it uses eco-certified
timber from sustainably managed forests.
Project partners include four SFI Program Participants: Hancock
Timber Resource Group, Lyme
Timber Company, LandVest, and Resource
Management Service, who will each host a study site.
Lots of other ideas that seemed bright at the time are also catching up: clearcutting, dams,
timber «
management» geared toward commercial species, heavily managed and sprayed monoculture crops, and so on.
To qualify for registration, lands must be subject to commercial
timber harvesting activities under a forest
management plan, and landowners must make a long - term commitment to manage their properties to sequester carbon above and beyond what would normally occur under the owner's baseline forest
management practices.
In its fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC states, «a sustainable forest
management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of
timber, fiber or energy from the forest will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit.»
Socio (s): Asian Development Bank, International Tropical
Timber Organization, UK Department for International Development, Asia - Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest
Management and Rehabilitation
Landowners must make a long - term commitment to manage their properties to sequester carbon above and beyond what would normally occur under an institutional
timber owner's typical business - as - usual
management.
With responsible forestry
management,
timber is a sustainable and renewable resource.
Areas under forest
management for
timber extraction make up 40 % of the national forest area, while protected areas including national parks, forests reserves, and hunting zones currently cover 20 % of the national forest area.
Dr. Nepstad says that landowners in the Amazon — especially those with fire - sensitive investments like orchards, intensive - cattle operations, and managed
timber harvesting — are curtailing the use of fire as a land -
management tool, reducing the incidence of fires that escape into neighboring forest areas.
«The adaptive
management process shall incorporate best available science and information, include protocols and standards, regular monitoring, a scientific peer review process, and provide recommendations to the board on proposed changes to forest practices rules to meet
timber industry viability and salmon recovery.»
Rather than allowing private
timber firms, indigenous communities, and other would - be land users to own forests outright, governments have favored concession systems where only specific use and
management rights are allocated.
Between training sessions with us, they would return to their villages, with specific tasks: To teach village members about the regulations that applied to the
timber companies; to map their communities» traditional land use and boundaries; to learn about their village's indigenous knowledge and
management of wildlife; to help organize a system for monitoring the
timber companies; to develop a series of wildlife
management scenarios acceptable to their communities; etc..
Second, they suggest that the growth and yield models developed from competition theory remain an important and useful
management tool for projecting biomass growth,
timber production, and forest change (37 ⇓ — 39).
The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest
management contracts (FMCs) and
timber sale contracts (TSCs), compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps.
While there were the common themes that you would expect to find at a gathering of this sort — supplier survey fatigue, how to satisfy campaigning NGOs — a theme emerged on the challenge of engaging smallholders within the supply chain on sustainability and land
management, particularly for palm oil, but also cocoa, coffee and
timber.
After decades of unsustainable logging, which depleted
timber stocks and undermined the viability of traditional forestry
management, Malaysia's forests are increasingly being converted for industrial oil palm plantations.
The Indonesian Ecolabel Institute is facilitating rainforest destruction by issuing «sustainable forest
management certificates» to companies that convert natural and peatlands into industrial
timber estates, allege national environmental groups.
Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy,
timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity
management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.
The agreement aims «to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical
timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable
management of tropical
timber producing forests.»
In the long term, a sustainable forest
management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of
timber, fibre or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit.
The resource
management issues he studied in the Pacific Northwest include the impacts of gravel harvesting on river channels and floodplains and the impacts of
timber harvesting on erosion and sedimentation.
Kevin has extensive experience advising Timberland Investment
Management Organizations in all aspects of timberland projects, including, acquisitions, dispositions,
timber deeds and leases, long - term supply agreements, conservation easements and carbon sequestration projects, as well as financing related to these projects.