Sentences with phrase «protected 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.

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Our members police and protect New York State's public universities and colleges; state parks and historic sites; and they enforce state laws and protect our lands and forests and ensure environmental safety and quality throughout the state.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

Sound public policy would (a) protect old forests, (b) grow young forests into older forests (aka, longer rotations), and (c) when logging, retain significant residual trees both live and dead.

We frequently shared public platforms to advocate for urgent action to stabilise our planet's climate, and for measures to protect vulnerable people from the damage caused by the destruction of the world's priceless environment, in particular its forests.

The PMFLA was established by the BC Legislature in 2003 to encourage sustainable forest management practices and protect key public environmental values on privately owned land under the Managed Forest Prforest management practices and protect key public environmental values on privately owned land under the Managed Forest PrForest Program.

The study, published in the journal Conservation Letters, is part of a larger effort by conservation organizations to protect tropical forests from the industries that threaten them by using charismatic species to harness public support and generate money for conservation.

Energy efficiency would thrive, forests would be regenerated, habitats would be protected, air pollution health effects would vanish, public transport, cycling and EV's would flourish, and even the Great Barrier Reef might stand a chance of regenerating.

The governor of Riau province has also made a public commitment to protect the province's remaining forest.

Low deforestation countries to see least benefit from carbon trading (8/13/2007) Countries that have done the best job protecting their tropical forests stand to gain the least from proposed incentives to combat global warming through carbon offsets, warns a new study published in Tuesday in the journal Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS).

Forest landowners are required to improve their forest roads to protect public resources, including water, fish, and wildlife haForest landowners are required to improve their forest roads to protect public resources, including water, fish, and wildlife haforest roads to protect public resources, including water, fish, and wildlife habitat.

The lands inside the boundary of this 6 - million - acre park are a mixture of public and private, protected and unprotected, large forests and small towns.

As expected, other national forests have reinstated fire restrictions to protect public health and prevent further human - caused wildfires from happening.

Oregon About Blog The Oregon Department of Forestry protects 16 million acres of Oregon's public and private forestlands from wildfire, manages 800,000 acres of Oregon's state forests, enforces the Oregon Forest Practices Act and other rules and laws to conserve Oregon's forests.