Sentences with phrase «managing timber harvests»

Dr. Nepstad says that landowners in the Amazon — especially those with fire - sensitive investments like orchards, intensive - cattle operations, and managed timber harvesting — are curtailing the use of fire as a land - management tool, reducing the incidence of fires that escape into neighboring forest areas.

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The Forestry Commission's function is to create, protect and manage the permanent forest estates and protected areas in the various ecological zones of the country to conserve Ghana's biophysical heritage, prepare and implement integrated forest and wildlife management plans for the maintenance of the environment to the benefit of all segments of society and to regulate the harvesting of timber, wildlife and other non-timber forest products among others.

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

The Tribe intends to manage the property for the primary purpose of long term sustainable timber harvest, while preserving natural values including fish and wildlife habitat, plant resources, and areas of cultural importance.

When you look at the big picture the use of wood is a great thing as long as we're using it sustainably, and we're planting, managing and growing more timber than we're harvesting.

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.

The methodology targets privately owned industrial timberlands in the U.S. managed under an existing commercial timber harvesting program.

The Seneca Creek Risk Assessment states that «most red alder is grown and harvested in managed timber stands, and the data show an increase in forest area in the red alder supply region as a whole... Both Oregon and Washington have comprehensive forest practice rules.

The agreement aims «to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests.»