Sentences with phrase «private forest owners»

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.

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.

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.

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

The lack of family forest offset projects is due to the fact that existing published IFM methodologies are either not applicable or not practical for this significant category of private forest owners, who own more forest land than the federal government.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

There are already some schemes in Brazil to pay private land owners to set aside land to conserve the forest, preserve species and maintain healthy ecosystems, but these have been local - scale initiatives that have had little impact on maintaining and improving the conditions of the forest as a whole.

To evaluate overall costs of maintaining minimum forest cover the scientists combined current estimates of existing forest cover with average costs paid to private land owners, and found that preserving the forest is feasible and low - cost.

Campgrounds & RV parks in the region are provided by a mix of operators: forest companies, the Regional District of Mount Waddington, BC Provincial Parks, the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations, and private owners.

And so, the bulk of preservation goes to private owners and international preservation societies who buy tracts of undeveloped Littoral Forest and set them aside as reserves.

Only in the USA is more forest land under private ownership with non-industrial and industrial owners together accounting for 57 % of forest ownership.

On Jan. 13, diversified private owner Forest City Enterprises revealed it would seek REIT status...

On Jan. 13, diversified private owner Forest City Enterprises revealed it would seek REIT status, aiming to start trading in January 2016.