Sentences with phrase «by timber harvesting»

«New knowledge about historical forests, which compared to current forests were less disturbed by timber harvesting and more disturbed by fire, helps us understand how human and natural forces can interact to shape a range of alternatives for future forest conditions.»

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Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Timber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any coTimber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any cotimber reserve controlled by any country.

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing a permit to Montana allowing it to open the Stillwater State Forest to timber harvests in areas that would damage grizzly territory.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

Opponents of the nearly 328,000 - acre monument created by Clinton in early 2000 likewise say it should be open to timber harvesting, arguing that it is otherwise a safety hazard.

The logging ban prohibits commercial timber harvesting, but allows logging by local people on a quota basis.

An international and multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Christian Levers from the Humboldt - Universität in Berlin show that forest harvesting intensity is distributed unevenly across Europe and harvested timber volumes were mostly well below the increment.

Countries that export tropical timber pledged last week to harvest only sustainably managed forests by the year 2000.

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

That amount, however, is roughly equivalent to the total amount of biomass people harvest today — all the crops, plant residues, and trees harvested by people for food, timber, and other uses, plus all the grass consumed by livestock around the world.

Yet doing so would require an amount of plants equal to all the world's current crop harvests, plant residues, timber, and grass consumed by livestock — a true non-starter.

We are blessed with abundant wood resources that provide more than 2/3 of all potentially available biomass, including forest residue from timber harvests and forest thinning that improves forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Canadian Firm to Run Logging Operation The underwater logging will be done by the Canadian firm CSR Developments, a company founded in 2005 to harvest submerged forests throughout the tropics, which will have a 25 - year concession to harvest 350,000 hectares of submerged timber.

Enviva maintains that by supporting the market for byproducts of timber harvests, it provides a financial incentive to keep forests forested, and that its procurement policies require suppliers to reforest timbered tracts, either through planting or by allowing natural regeneration to occur.

Finally, the Court upheld the exemption clause in the license which «expressly provides that Province is not liable for any losses suffered by Moulton as a result of an act of a third party, including any act or threat to act that interferes with accessing the timber harvest areas» (para. 106).