Sentences with phrase «timber harvest»

The logging ban prohibits commercial timber harvesting, but allows logging by local people on a quota basis.

This is primarily due to active fire reduction / suppression policies over the last century or more by federal and state land managers, and / or timber harvesting practices.

Almost half of the 60 million metric tons of forest timber harvested each year are used to generate energy, either directly or within industrial processes.

Yet in order to sustain the long - term health of the forests they depend on, they need sustainable economic opportunities that provide alternatives to agricultural conversion or irresponsible timber harvesting.

More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail, and 42 % of timber harvested in the US becomes pulpwood for paper.

«We are working on a new model that will help us account for soil moisture and other factors like the impact of timber harvesting on rainwater infiltration and the location of communities,» Stark said.

We are blessed with abundant wood resources that provide more than 2/3 of all potentially available biomass, including forest residue from timber harvests and forest thinning that improves forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests.

The resource management issues he studied in the Pacific Northwest include the impacts of gravel harvesting on river channels and floodplains and the impacts of timber harvesting on erosion and sedimentation.

So far, the sustainable fashion company has planted over 100K trees to help restore forests after timber harvests.

Renewable biomass energy produced from wood, the dominant biomass resource in Washington, is made from slash leftover from sustainable timber harvesting operations.

In the past 30 years this protected region has lost 34 percent of its tree cover to agriculture and cattle ranching as well as timber harvesting.

What precipitated the action in which the claim was made was the Province's issuance of timber harvest licences without consultation to the First Nation in question.

«Our aim is to provide scientific evidence and practical guidance to define sustainable harvest intensities that ensure both long - term timber harvest and maintenance of carbon stocks.»

«New knowledge about historical forests, which compared to current forests were less disturbed by timber harvesting and more disturbed by fire, helps us understand how human and natural forces can interact to shape a range of alternatives for future forest conditions.»

Cuomo's reform would make more landowners eligible for benefits, which would accrue not only for sustainably managing timber harvests but for protecting water quality, increasing wildlife habitat and enhancing or preserving carbon storage.

Here is a synopsis of the lecture: Decades of acid deposition have depleted soil calcium reserves and, when combined with timber harvesting, predicted losses of calcium from soil are considerable and may ultimately threaten long - term forest health and productivity and lead to negative impacts on lakes.

The Forest Service recently released a plan to restore the range's forests back to this state following decades of fire suppression and timber harvesting regulations, which have created dense, fire - prone forests.

That time to recover initial carbon stocks after selective logging depended almost exclusively on logging intensity — that is, on the amount of tree biomass removed or killed during timber harvesting.

Shannon Buckley Luepold of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and her colleagues spent two years collecting data on Rusty Blackbirds nests and their surrounding habitat in Maine and New Hampshire, and uncovered a web of connections between timber harvesting practices, spruce and fir cones, red squirrels, and Rusty Blackbird nesting success.

Conservation programs that limit timber harvesting have chalked up wins in preserving such habitat.

Weyerhaeuser is much larger than its competitors as it is involved in businesses other than simple timber harvesting.

Old growth timber harvested from places such as Indonesia and the Canadian Boreal would also be subject to tariffs.

If the «clear cut remains» 100 years later, then I think (a) there must have been lots of erosion producing gullies I would think, or more likely (b) there had been additional timber harvesting on this area during the intervining period, or (c) forest fires had destroyed the re-growth of timber in the area.

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.

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Local people could continue to subsist from forest areas (possibly non-market timber harvesting, hunting, and collection of forest products like rattan, fruit, and nuts) without degrading the carbon value of the land.

From compliance of federal and state laws to building timber harvest plans that minimize environmental impact, private forest landowners are taking the necessary steps in their everyday practices to be stewards for the water, soil, and wildlife of working forests.

Concerns for the sensitivity of this habitat prompted Vermont to enact the tough development law, Act 250, which requires a permit for any activity occurring above 2500 feet, including timber harvest.

Submerged timber harvested by Triton is all certified as SmartWood Rediscovered by the Rainforest Alliance.

Hank Roberts # 279, I don't have a lot of experience with forestry on steep slopes, in fact in my part of Canada we have relatively flat terrain and there are ground rules restricting timber harvest on steep slopes.

Unlike most real estate investments where vacancy can lead to lost revenue, a decision to defer timber harvests just postpones the cash flow and allows the trees to grow in size.

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing a permit to Montana allowing it to open the Stillwater State Forest to timber harvests in areas that would damage grizzly territory.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

Muckleshoot Tribe chooses SFI certification to enhance long - term sustainable timber harvest and support cultural values

Incontrast to corn stover, wood wastehas limited potential due to the high cost associated with collection andtransportation (in the case of wood left over from timber harvesting) andcompeting uses (in the case of mill residues, which are currently used formulch, particle board, and to power other facilities).

Mentioned in a number of Muskoka Watershed Council lectures over the past few years, calcium decline in Muskoka Lakes and in particular, the consequences of timber harvesting on lake calcium levels have been hinted at as a potential direct cause of declining health of our lakes in Muskoka.

To study forest fragmentation in northern California, the scientists compared the effects of cannabis cultivation to those of timber harvest from 2000 to 2013 in Humboldt County.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Timber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any country.

And, if other forms of waste, such as the stalks of corn plants (corn stover) or the remnants of timber harvest are included, Klann says, «we have enough feedstock in the U.S. to offset 70 percent of the oil import.»

The researchers rated the economic benefits derived from five ecosystem services: sustainable bush meat hunting; timber harvest; bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals; carbon storage; and so - called existence value, or the intrinsic value of nature «as a source of wonder and inspiration,» the researchers write in the paper presenting their finding published yesterday in PLoS Biology.