Sentences with phrase «family forest owners who»

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

«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.

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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.

The people who got Jordan Priestley started on his 15 - year career in the performance industry included his father, Don, who helped him build his first big - block when Jordan was only seven years old; family friend Forest Seek, who owned a parts store that focused on performance cars; and Dave Lindsley, who owned a ’67 Camaro RS with a built small - block and was also a successful business owner.

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.