Sentences with phrase «of national forest»

Just 18 percent of national forest land is permanently protected wilderness, and much of that is thin soil over rock where trees rarely grow.

The first step brought together multiple stakeholders from community, regional and national levels to begin the draft of a national forest management standard for the country.

An additional 10 million acres of national forest surround the Frank, making central Idaho the least developed tract outside of Alaska.

In addition to supporting the development of national forest certification systems in several countries, we are working with a variety of partners to pilot test new approaches to group certification for smallholders, support value chain development and provide training to build the required capacity for forest certification to succeed.

This project aimed at developing awareness and capacity on sustainable forest management and PEFC certification within the forestry community of Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, with the goal to lay the groundwork for the development of national forest certification systems.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — State Highway 14 cuts a tightly winding channel through the canyons of the Cache la Poudre Wilderness, a section of national forest in this state's northwest corner and the site of last year's High Park fire.

Surrounding the city are 100 miles of pathways taking in the best of the National Forest in this area.

«The Forest Service is accelerating the restoration and management of our national forests, despite budgetary challenges, using innovative and collaborative strategies to work across large landscapes,» USDA Undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Bonnie said in a statement, adding that the 4FRI project «is one of the best examples of this approach.»

The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest.

That, of course, doesn't account for the additional cost of living incurred by being on a peninsula in the middle of a National Forest, just a few miles from British Columbia.

The ultimate island getaway, Phu Quoc boasts sandy beaches surrounded by a diverse topography of national forest land and pepper plantations.

Conservation groups, unhappy with the way their views are represented in the programme, are even more disgruntled by a plan in the recently released draft of the National Forest Policy to transfer the research to the new Forest and Wood Products R&D Corporation.

FACT: Fifty - two percent of national forests are logged, mined, and crisscrossed by more than 373,000 miles of roads, enough to circle Earth 14 times.

Authorities have evacuated and shut down a section of a national forest outside Los Angeles for at least a week after a ground squirrel was found there infected with the plague, county public health officials said on Thursday.

Then we went out and got into the back of a large, covered truck that bounced and shuddered down a rutted dirt road in the direction of the Tapajós River, into the heart of the national forest.

Surrounded by the beautiful countryside of the National Forest and trails of the Leicestershire round this gem of a city is a great choice for a date with a difference.

After the last glimmer of sunlight disappears and the cameras are stowed in the BMW's trunk, we set off in our roadster duo on A-375, which wends, bends, and sweeps through thirty deserted miles of national forest.

On Day 9 we board the Durango and Silverton Railroad * for a journey across the remote wilderness of the National Forest through breathtaking canyons, past emerald - green rivers, to Silverton.

In addition, of course, the needs and demands of the national population for drawing benefit from the international economy have stimulated careless entrepreneurship, such as the production of lumber with the inevitable destruction of the national forest preserves with the use of simple and cheap chain saws.

Teddy Roosevelt is responsible for the creation of most of our National Forests, which to this day and far beyond will act a critical wildlife habitat, watershed protection, recreation for the people of the world, a continuous supply of timber and biomass, and the protection of wilderness for countless future generations.

Not an easy task I might say since the Lobbyists for «renewable energy» are billionaires and have the Green crowd for backing: «Your dollars are going to help save the red - tailed tree frog by preventing the clear cutting of our National Forests, our National treasure.»

Landowners along the route are furious, as are lovers of the national forests and the Appalachian Trail, people who care about water quality, people who care about climate change, and fans of caves, bats and other wildlife.

The evaluation of a national forest certification system against the PEFC requirements is carried out by a PEFC Registered Assessor.

Chartered by Congress in 1993, the National Forest Foundation works with the U.S. Forest Service and other partners to leverage the best thinking, conservation capacity, and community action to measurably improve the health of national forests and grasslands in the U.S.

«Both teams demonstrate a unique approach to removing a major barrier preventing more restoration work on our National Forests,» said Leslie Weldon, Deputy Chief of the National Forest System.

Watch the short documentary from the Story of Stuff to learn more about what companies like Nestlé do when they show up in rural towns or continue to pump water out of national forests, disregarding a permit that expired nearly 30 years ago.

Additionally, there are concerns that the lands losing protection are part of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, though they're not technically in the bounds of that national forest.

In one extreme example, in a 2014 decision, the Chafee County district court held that a Jeep tour operator was a landowner of National Forest roads because it operated there with a permit.

Dangers of marijuana Unless you have been living in a cave in the wilds of a national forest, you know that proponents of cannabis use have been pushing hard for the decriminalization — and, in some cases, the legalization — of cannabis in the United States.

Franklin County's PreK - 12 Title I school in the Panhandle is surrounded by acres of National Forest, rivers, lakes, streams, the Apalachicola Bay and the beautiful white beaches and clear blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

He has suggested that we prepare a Ten - Thousand Year Plan for the Management of our National Forests.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long - vanished lake.

That, of course, doesn't account for the additional cost of living incurred by being on a peninsula in the middle of a National Forest, just a few miles from British Columbia.

Its explosion is responsible for the topography of the national forest and the national park: a volcanic rim, with elevations beginning at 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above sea level.

The development of a national forest certification system in the Republic of Korea has been underway for several years.

The Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF) is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of the national forest certification system for India.

In July Bush reversed Clinton's ban on road building in nearly 60 million acres of national forest.

Although the focus of the Forest Service's report is on the 193 million acres of national forest, the purpose of the guidance is to provide technical information to any interested party.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

Bounded by thousands of acres of National Forest and Santa Fe River Watershed land, the Center and Sanctuary provides a peaceful sanctuary for plants, animals and our visitors.

Los Padres composes a fraction of the 193 million acres of national forest and grasslands, approximately one - third of which are considered to be at «high risk» for severe wildfires.

Only 58 % of national forest management policies updated since 2007 link sustainable forest management to poverty reduction goals.

Areas under forest management for timber extraction make up 40 % of the national forest area, while protected areas including national parks, forests reserves, and hunting zones currently cover 20 % of the national forest area.

They calculate that within those public lands are 28.9 million acres of national forests, 13.6 million acres of national wildlife refuge, 2.9 million acres of parks and 7 million acres of wilderness overlapping with fossil fuel fields and basins.

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and mining across Idaho.

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and