Sentences with phrase «forest owners»

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

This will contribute to an acceleration in the use of certified forest products within the country, providing an incentive for forest owners and stakeholders within the supply chain of get themselves certified.

For each additional ton of carbon dioxide their trees store, forest owners earn a credit that they can sell to companies who wish to offset their emissions.

Yet, adoption of certification among family forest owners is low.

Now research shows that paying private forest owners in Uganda reduced deforestation, adding to the debate on the use of monetary incentives in forest conservation.

The pilot project will be among the first to use the ACR methodology that was developed specifically with family forest owners in mind.

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

We support a number of projects to help small forest owners become certified through Group Certification:

Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner Vangelis Marinakis says drug - trafficking charges against him are part of a Greek government - led «conspiracy» to

Purchasers of carbon credits also want contractual agreements with forest owners to guarantee the carbon stays in the forest, which may prevent local people from using the forest to grow food, fix a roof or even hunt for generations.

ALBANY Stakeholders are making a final push for reform of a state program to give private forest owners tax breaks and other incentives to broaden sustainable forestry practices in the Adirondacks.

Climate Change Education: Engaging Private Forest Owners on Issues Related to Climate Change summarizes a workshop that explored the challenges facing state foresters, extension agents, private forestry consultants, and other private forestland owners in considering climate change in their decision - making.

Carbon offset programs reward forest owners who adjust their land management practice to achieve greater carbon sequestration.

In 2005, the government sold over 35,000 hectares of forests to a Harvard University trust fund, effectively making a foreign institution the second - largest forest owner in the county (second to the Romanian government).

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos called the initiative «a milestone effort to protect and conserve the state's vast forest resources held by more than 700,000 forest owners across New York.»

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.

Family forest owners manage 264 million acres, or 35 percent, of all U.S. forestland, offering a sizeable potential to build on the Oregon pilot and expand the FHHH initiative.

March 27 — Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner Evanglos Marinakis has had all charges against him dismissed by the Greek Supreme Court, the highest court in the country.

Stefanie is now a resource for our Central MA region and offers one additional option for local forest owners to consider contacting when they have questions about forest conservation and stewardship.

«It wasn't the case that only forest owners who were planning to conserve anyway enrolled,» Jayachandran said.

The study, «Family Forest Ownerships of the United States,» is based on responses from over 8,000 randomly selected family forest owners from across the country.

Survey results show that the benefits family forest owners most value are related to the beauty and privacy the forests provide, along with wildlife and nature protection.

Usually, forest owners salvage stem wood after storms, to sell it.

Although priced like an add - on for existing Ori and the Blind Forest owners, the Definitive Edition is in no way compatible with the original (saves don't carry forward).

Though New York already offers forest owners a tax reduction, they can only receive it if they have a plan to harvest trees — not the ideal incentive for promoting climate progress.

Furthermore, after harvesting, forest owners usually rely on natural regeneration, which is abundant in the deep fertile forest soils of the U.S..

«With PEFC's focus on enabling small - and family forest owners gain access to certification, Double A has brought the KHAN - NA initiative to the notice of PEFC in the last few years,» continued Mr. Leetavorn.

From supporting the development of national systems, to ensuring certification is accessible to the many small - and community forest owners, our work in this region is set to expand significantly in the coming years.

Then they divided the villages into two groups of 60 and 61 settlements with 564 and 535 private forest owners respectively.

U.S. forests sequester 10 percent of all annual domestic carbon emissions, a figure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates could be doubled if forest owners engaged in more carbon sequestration activities.

Check the stumpage to get an approximate count of the yield and then inform forest owners of sizes and types of trees wanted.

Manomet is launching The Forest Climate Resiliency Project to better assess forest health and resilience to climate change and to share this approach with a broad range of forest owners and managers.

With PEFC's vast experience in providing cost - effective certification solutions for small forest owners, we are compelled to transfer this expertise to Southeast Asia where robust models for affordable group certification are drastically needed.

PLATTSBURGH Forestry associations, environmental groups and state lawmakers are asking the governor to prioritize reform of a program designed to preserve timberlands by giving private forest owners tax breaks and other incentives.

Two new reports summarize workshops convened by the Climate Change Roundtable Series, Climate Change Education: Engaging Private Forest Owners on Issues Related to Climate Change and Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business.

Peer Influence of Non-Industrial Private Forest Owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan

We had a three goal comeback in the last few minutes in the game between Rotherham and Derby, all hell breaking loose at Middlesbrough who went on to lose at Charlton where the fans are stepping up their protests against the owners, and the Nottingham Forest owners have done what they do best, they've sacked another manager.

REDD will work in one of two ways: either with forest owners» earning credits that they can sell, as with Global Canopy, or by developed countries» contributing to a fund that would in turn pay developing countries to keep their forests intact.

«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.

Scientists in the US and Belgium used satellite data to identify 121 villages in forest districts and then made a census of 1,099 private forest owners in these villages.

In order to scale up the level of forest certification in the region, there is a need for new approaches, innovation and investment to support sustainable forest management and make certification accessible and effective for forest owners.

«We hope this work will increase the public's awareness of the importance of family forest owners and be used to create educational materials and programs that allow landowners to make fully informed decisions to better meet their needs and the needs of future generations.»

As Europe's largest private forest owner, we put great emphasis on sustainable forest management.

He also pitched reforms to broaden and make more accessible tax incentives for private forest owners, a measure that would aid in conservation and strengthen the state's timber industry.

Forest owners would be given credits for the amount of carbon that they sequester, and those credits could be sold to those who are producing carbon in excess of a specified cap.

Forest owners in another 61 villages in western Uganda received no monetary incentives.