Sentences with phrase «timber harvested in»

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.

This does not mean they are inactive on their land; nearly half of the timber harvested in the U.S. comes from family forest lands, but only 13 percent of family forest owners have written forest management plans and only 20 percent had received professional forestry advice at the time of the survey.

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.

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.

The responses of a critically endangered mycophagous marsupial (Bettongia penicillata) to timber harvesting in a native eucalypt forest

Not exact matches

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.

Income from the sale of timber has doubled, and among those communities that have taken control of forest harvesting, revenues have increased more than five-fold, a tremendous improvement that lays the foundation for further investment in CFE development.

The Rainforest Alliance worked with the community of Tres Islas, located in the biodiversity capital of the Peruvian Amazon, to develop a sustainable economy that includes non-timber forest products like Brazil nuts and palm fruit, as well as sustainably harvested timber.

Based in New York City, with offices located in major markets and key countries producing tropical commodities, and a global network of partners, the Rainforest Alliance works with over a million producers whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest timber and host travelers.

«Farmer» shall mean any person, organization, entity, association, partnership or corporation engaged in the raising of crops, or the raising of livestock or livestock products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law, or the business of agriculture, whether for profit or otherwise, including the cultivation of land, the raising of poultry, fish, or fur - bearing animals, the harvesting of timber or the practice of horticulture, aquaculture, apiculture or viticulture; «Generally accepted agricultural practices» shall mean those practices which are lawful, customary, reasonable, safe and necessary to the industry as they pertain to the practices listed in subdivision a of section 3 of this local law.

The Forestry Commission's function is to create, protect and manage the permanent forest estates and protected areas in the various ecological zones of the country to conserve Ghana's biophysical heritage, prepare and implement integrated forest and wildlife management plans for the maintenance of the environment to the benefit of all segments of society and to regulate the harvesting of timber, wildlife and other non-timber forest products among others.

At Iwokrama, which means «place of refuge» in the Amerindian language of Makushi, forest managers harvest timber using a technique called reduced - impact logging.

Cities themselves consume resources, including food, timber, water and energy, harvested over vastly wider areas than the land that they physically occupy, and this greater footprint needs to be considered in any overall assessment to get a true picture.

They analysed data from legal logging operations that harvested approximately 17.3 million cubic meters of timber across 314 tree species in the state of Pará.

«We found that under current timber - harvesting intensities, Amazon forests logged with reduced - impact logging techniques shall recover their initial carbon stock in 7 to 21 years,» says Ervan Rutishauser of CarboForExpert in Switzerland and CIRAD in France.

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.

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.

He thinks one of the ways in which the flow of illegal logs may still be stemmed is a system of marking sustainably harvested timber all the way from the stand to the end - consumer.

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).

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.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal mining, timber harvesting and charcoal production, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a report issued today.

Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

In recent years, humans have been introducing exotic earthworm species from Europe and Asia through fishing, timber harvesting, municipal green waste management and gardening.

Opponents of the nearly 328,000 - acre monument created by Clinton in early 2000 likewise say it should be open to timber harvesting, arguing that it is otherwise a safety hazard.

An international and multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Christian Levers from the Humboldt - Universität in Berlin show that forest harvesting intensity is distributed unevenly across Europe and harvested timber volumes were mostly well below the increment.

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

«This ridiculous red tape is in danger of undermining our efforts to get sustainably harvested timber on the market,» says Chris Cox of the Ecological Trading Company, a wood importer.

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).

In many tropical countries, unlike Guyana, people have cut down large swaths of the rainforest to harvest timber or to carve out farms.

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

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

The building is made from prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, made in Austria from sustainably harvested lumber.

Wood is a wonderful building material; It is lovely to work with, warm in appearance and if sustainably harvested, sequesters Carbon Dioxide for the life of the timber.

Ours is «the first country in the world to place an outright, criminally enforceable ban on the import of illegally harvested timber.»

CIMI's complaints about the Surui project were based on an interview with a Surui member who is involved in the sale of illegally harvested timber from the Surui territory.

But they're concerned about one part of the proposals — the length of the timber - sales contracts that would allow harvesting on thousands of acres of state forest land annually in the Interior.

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

The methodology targets privately owned industrial timberlands in the U.S. managed under an existing commercial timber harvesting program.

The Seneca Creek Risk Assessment states that «most red alder is grown and harvested in managed timber stands, and the data show an increase in forest area in the red alder supply region as a whole... Both Oregon and Washington have comprehensive forest practice rules.

A significant portion of the U.S. red alder resource is not available for harvest; forest practices rules constrain timber management in riparian areas where red alder is most abundant.

In 2013, the Ministry of Forestry reported that 53 percent of wood harvested from natural forests was from this «conversion timber.»

Today's airship designers share a vision: magnificent amounts of trucking going on in the sky — regular convoys of enormous airships carrying timber, coal, wind turbines, prefabricated homes, or an entire summer harvest, puttering gently along at about a hundred miles an hour, ten thousand feet over our heads.

Instead one could grow timber bamboo which grows a meter a day and ready for harvest in 3 years.

Dr. Nepstad says that landowners in the Amazon — especially those with fire - sensitive investments like orchards, intensive - cattle operations, and managed timber harvesting — are curtailing the use of fire as a land - management tool, reducing the incidence of fires that escape into neighboring forest areas.

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.

Just as fully owning forested land has not been necessary for companies to be entitled to harvest and sell timber in the past, it is not necessary to own the land in order to own the carbon rights.

Clad in sustainably harvested timber inside and out, the cute cabin can be placed just about anywhere and moved as necessary.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

In March, the EU passed legislation to stem the flow of illegally harvested timber into the region.