Sentences with phrase «timber harvesting activities»

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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If this forest impoverishment is to be controlled, then logging activities need to be restricted or replaced with low - impact timber harvest techniques, and more effective strategies to prevent accidental forest fires need to be implemented.

Over the years, she's seen how sea level rise, as well as timber harvesting and other industrial activities, have changed the river, making it wider, wilder and more difficult for fish to navigate.

Tree cover loss may be the result of human activities, including forestry practices such as timber harvesting or deforestation (the conversion of natural forest to other land uses), as well as natural causes such as disease or storm damage.

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.