Sentences with phrase «for timber production»

As well as an important source for timber production and rural employment for the region, these forests also have an important effect on watershed protection, biodiversity and the global carbon balance.

New research has highlighted the value of a modern logging technique for maintaining biodiversity in tropical forests that are used for timber production.

Areas that were inaccessible due to armed conflicts between the government and ethnic groups, for example, are starting to open up for timber production and commercial plantations.

Not exact matches

Woodland managed for shooting rather than for commercial timber production provides a richer and more varied habitat.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

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

The program is in place in 26 of China's 31 mainland provinces and, while its central goal is to prevent erosion, most of the reestablished forest is now used for the production of timber, fiber, tree fruits and other cash crops.

The EU and China are the largest importers of carbon dioxide emissions linked to deforestation for the production of beef, soy, palm oil and timber between 2000 - 2009.

Though the company is known for its high quality timber, especially in the Pacific Northwest, it has its hands in timberland acreage, wood products production, cellulose - fibers for consumer goods, and even housing construction.

The expectation is for price appreciation, maybe rent, maybe interest, maybe crop production income, maybe oil or timber royalties.

The rail line was built to carry timber to Bordeaux, for the production of wine casks, though its current name comes from its later use as a method of truffle transportation from the market of nearby Martel.

Re «I believe the best thing to do now with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the land, then grow organic sugarcane for ethanol production.»

I believe the best thing to do now with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the land, then grow organic sugarcane for ethanol production.

The book advocated for the replenishment of England's forests, as industrialization and a recent Civil War had caused an increase in timber production, greatly depleting the nation's woods.

The production of a relatively limited number of commodities — cattle, palm oil, timber, pulp and paper, and soybeans — is directly responsible for the bulk of the damage.

So after the lands were taken back, congress passed legislation to manage these sections for sustained - yield timber production, with the proceeds to go to the counties as I mentioned earlier.

The ecological value of old growth wasn't appreciated at the time, and future pressure for wholesale conversion of old growth to timber production on US Forest Service land wasn't anticipated.

Although the State of the Forest report lists logging as one of the five primary direct threats to forest cover, the report emphasises that log production in the formal sector — which has been negatively affected by a steep drop in demand due to the 2007 - 2008 global economic downturn — accounts for just 3 percent of global tropical timber production, far behind Latin America and the Asia - Pacific region.

Illegal and legal deforestation, driven by cattle ranching, soy production for livestock feed and logging for timber and charcoal, continues to be a significant problem in Brazil today.

Application of the International Tropical Timber Organization guidelines for managing secondary forests can promote the sustainable development of these forests for wood energy production (ITTO, 2002).

A recent study analysed the possibility of combining the harvesting of traditional species for the timber industry with less - known or less - used species for energy production (ITTO, 2005).

Reece has responsibility for credit teams in five U.S. loan production offices focused primarily in food & agribusiness, and specializing in, among other things, the beef, pork, poultry, grain and timber and forestry sectors.

«Plantation» refers to an area allocated by a government or other body for the establishment of fast growing tree plantations for the production of oil palm, timber, or other wood products, including pulp and paper.

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).

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.

Illegal logging accounts for more than half of timber production in Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Cameroon.

The authors found little net impact on production at the provincial level, but negative effects on the Okanagan Timber Supply Area for both climate scenarios.

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / CNC / Production maintenance Quedgeley # 20k - # 25k doe Our client is an expanding, successful E-commerce furniture company with multiple sites in the UK and Europe fabricating bespoke solid timber products for the retail and trade market.

A forester would scrutinize all aspects before cutting a timber and sending it to the mill for production.

Facilitated weekly meetings with the mill owners to determine weekly goals for timber product production and fiber procurement

• Facilitate weekly production meetings with the mill's operational leaders to determine and set goals for timber and fiber procurement based on total production cost and a review of the market pricing.

You'd have to find a timber company that is willing to pay for the trees on the property (they'll usually just take the largest trees and leave the smaller stuff behind - as most of it isn't going to be large enough for production).