Sentences with phrase «many public forests»

The Adirondack Council is calling on billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests of New York's Adirondack Park.

The environmental views of Paterson's replacement, Liz Truss, are little known, but the former Shell employee is a free market enthusiast who backed the doomed sell - off of public forests.

For the sake of the Adirondack Park and its «Forever Wild» public Forest Preserve, we urge readers to vote «no.»

Ultimately, what is needed is a pheromone treatment cheap and effective enough to be practical for both small, privately held acreage and for the vast stretches of public forest that are rapidly transforming from vibrant green to that disturbing shade of brown.

The loss of Irish public forests and lands to developers is but briefly mentioned, as is Adam's role as a «conservationist» for a private company; greater insight into both of these plot points could have added depth to the script.

Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England announce the second edition of Jerwood Open Forest, an exceptional opportunity for visual artists to propose ideas for a major new # 30,000 commission to be realised anywhere within England's Public Forest Estate, supported by Arts Council England.

Witness to a parliamentary debate in 1842 that resulted in a ban on gathering fallen twigs for firewood in public forests in Germany's Rhineland, until then a common practice among the poor, Marx imagined, «In the stomach of the predators, nature has provided the battlefield of union, the crucible of closest fusion, the organ connecting the various animal species.»

Then, through popular education, village women — who had watched public forests be used by the Moi regime to grant political favors — began to see forests differently, as something they, as citizens, had a claim to.

In the U.S., public forests offer more than 150,000 miles of hiking, biking, and horse trails, 338,000 heritage sites, and 57,000 miles of streams.

She sees a role for public forest conservation finance in helping governments build up their capacity to monitor the forest — a role that it is already playing, in Brazil and around the world — and adds that the one thing everyone agrees on is that no one has all the answers.

«REDD + (acronym for public forest conservation finance), particularly at the jurisdictional level, is still developing, and shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for farm - by - farm filtering that has been demonstrated effective for soy and cattle in the Brazilian Amazon,» she says.

She'd rather see public forest conservation finance directed into programs that help small ranchers develop simple technologies that can help them become more efficient.

They live in town in Hanover, spend much of their free time hiking or running (usually with their dog) amongst the Upper Valley's trails and public forests, and are also frequently found wandering the many conserved parcels at the southern end of the Connecticut River Valley in Lyme, Connecticut.

This Memorial Day weekend, thousands of Pennsylvanians (and folks from around the country) will be out enjoying themselves on some of our state's 2.2 million acres of public forests and parks.

By these criteria, promising approaches across both industrialized and developing countries include policies that combat the loss of public forests to natural disturbance agents, and «Payment for Environmental Services» (PES) systems that provide an incentive for the retention of forest cover.

In industrialized countries, a history of fire suppression and a lack of thinning treatments have created high fuel loads in many public forests, such that when fires do occur, they release large quantities of carbon (Schelhaas et al., 2003).

In Brazil, for example, the Law on Management of Public Forests has language strongly suggesting that the State is the owner of carbon stored or sequestered in forests, even if there's a company that has a management concession there.

A federal court today overturned a coal mine expansion and eliminated a loophole permitting road construction for coal mining in western Colorado's roadless public forest lands.

Bill McIrvine, owner of Diamond M Ranch in northern Washington, has a lease agreement with the state to graze his cattle on a plot of public forest.

All told, illegal logging has devastated public forests around the globe, reducing incentives for locals to invest in sustainable forestry and accumulating losses of revenue to governments of some $ 15 billion annually.

Represented institutional timberland manager with the acquisition of 100,000 acres of investment timberland properties in Florida from a public forest products company.

If a member of the public is alone in the public forest and hires a Realtor alone in the real estate forest, will the Realtor truly, ethically, and honorably care to do the absolute right thing, including try to provide a true picture of a market, if no one will likely much notice or care?

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

(Block points out Sino - Forest went public through a reverse takeover on the Toronto Venture Exchange long before the current wave of companies.)

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

The recently ousted New York Times executive editor gave her first public comments since her dismissal to the graduating class of Wake Forest University.

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They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

Every day, I see that birdhouse out of my kitchen window, I see it when I go to bed at night, a small white and blue birdhouse, in the middle of a forest, empty and beautiful, our own road to nowhere, the birdhouse without birds in a forest behind our fence, public land.

Hey genius, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is a top 40 public university in the nation with departments in chemistry, environmental science and environmental and forest biology among others.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

As part of their initial assessments, auditors solicit and collect public feedback on the forests to be audited via mailed questionnaires, individual interviews, and public meetings.

To review the process and decisions that led to a specific operation's certification, see the public summaries of forest management assessments.

But you might well be shining your deer in an opening in a forest that has been ravaged by the oil interests — public land doled away for peanuts by conservationists in a state with boggling population and recreation problems.

With public bettors now able to cash in on Notre Dame if they win by two touchdowns, I don't expect many squares leaning towards Wake Forest unless the line moves back to 14 or higher.

Sharp bettors allowed public bettors to hammer Wake Forest before capitalizing on the artificially inflated lines.

Even after the two - point line move, Wake Forest currently fits the criteria for our 2014, 2015 and 2016 College Football Betting Against the Public system.

There weren't been any steam moves triggered on Wake Forest, which indicates public perception was solely responsible for that 1 - point line move.

Despite falling to Wake Forest 35 - 30 last weekend, the public is confident that the Seminoles can rebound to take down the Blue Devils by at least a pair of TDs, especially after the news that star QB EJ Manuel is expected to start after battling a shoulder injury for the past two weeks.

Does this mean you should immediately go bet the Blue Devils because the public clearly knows something that you don't or do you immediately bet on Wake Forest because any time 81.4 percent of the public is on one team, they are almost always wrong?

The River Forest Public Library and Centennial Park will host kids 12 and under in costume for fun spooky stories and games!

That evening, the district is marking the last public skate in the old building with a farewell event, dubbed «Intermission,» featuring raffles, an alumni hockey game between Oak Park and River Forest High School and Fenwick High School, appearances by former Blackhawks players and public skate music by Chicago Blackhawks organist Frank Pellico.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Commissioners of the Oak Brook Park District, DuPage and Cook Counties, Illinois, will conduct a public hearing regarding the proposed budget and appropriations ordinance for the fiscal year commencing May 1, 2018 and ending April 30, 2019, at the Oak Brook Park District, Family Recreation Center, 1450 Forest Gate Road, Oak Brook, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2018, at 6:30 PM, during the Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners, at which time the proposed Budget and Appropriation Ordinance will be adopted.

Hundreds of proud citizens wearing forest green, touring all the city «s parks on horseback and all - terrain vehicles, using police powers and good will as part of a giant public relations initiative for the Chicago Park District and its beleaguered chief executive, Jesse Madison.

Purchased in October 1987 and re-opened to the public in November 1987, the facility is located at the north end of the community, thus complementing the Forest View Racquet Club located at the south end of Arlington Heights.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

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Forest preserve district naturalist Lynn Kurczewski said this park is closed to the public because of hazards posed by dilapidated structures on the property.