Sentences with phrase «forest management plans»

Alternatively, public lands can provide a government - sanctioned forest management plan, updated at a minimum of every 10 years.

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?

Scientists at the site have informed a number of forest management plans and policies in the Pacific Northwest.

The goals of the project are to expand areas under approved forest management plans by 1.02 M hectares and reduce annual forest cover losses from 8,700 hectares per year to 4,800 hectares per year.

We work with CFEs across the tropics to help them develop sustainable forest management plans, apply best forestry practices in the field, build their administrative capacities, invest in strategies to increase the value of their products, and penetrate premium markets for wood and other forest products.

The Erie County Forest Management Plan has been constructed around three basic principles.

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.

«They have demonstrated a true commitment to restoring fisher populations and include them in forest management plans.

Siakor has urged the U.N. Security Council to maintain the sanctions until the corrupt logging companies that operated under the Taylor regime are removed, the forestry sector is reformed, and a workable forest management plan is in place.

Every 10 years it proposes an Algonquin Park Forest Management Plan, for approval by MNR.

For example, the enforcement of wildlife and fishery laws or the development of forest management plans.

The Plan merely calls on forestry companies operating in caribou ranges to prepare spatial harvest sequences within their Forest Management Plans to meet caribou habitat requirements, and states that Alberta Forestry may impose additional terms and conditions into harvesting plans and operating ground rules (at pp 49 - 52).

In Central Africa, forest management plans were adopted in the 1990s, and over time, these plans have grown to cover a large portion of the region's forests.

Distinguishing human from climatic influence on historical fire patterns is critical to forest management planning, which is guided by historical patterns of fire frequency, size, and intensity.

«This newest NMR research results from Umeå could be very relevant to forestry because it could give climate researchers better background facts for their models and give decision - makers new ideas on how to adapt their forest management plans and make estimates of tree production more realistic,» says Juergen Schleucher.

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.

Lack of basic disclosure persists in key areas such as concession contracts, forest management plans, and what proportion of revenues communities receive from timber felling.

The Cape Fear program helps landowners develop a forest management plan.

Having a forest management plan gives landowners access to expertise and cost - sharing through a variety of programs available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

MNR decisions to approve a Forest Management Plan can be appealed, as provided in the regulations.5 But there are only two CFSA regulations, and neither authorizes such appeals.6

Forest management plans can be challenged if they fail to comply with the Forest Management Manual, but the Act and the Manual are more process than content.

According to the CFSA, all logging on Crown land will be governed by a Forest Management Plan (FMP) approved by the Minister of Natural Resources (MNR), who «shall not approve» a FMP unless he / she:

Key is the Forest Management Planning Manual, which: