Sentences with phrase «timber harvesting on»

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Based on the size, shape and placement of the cannabis grows among 62 randomly selected watersheds, they quantified the impacts relative to those of timber harvest.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

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

«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.

Proponents say the Far North Act will have little effect on the timber industry because it affects an area farther north where trees are relatively small, grow less densely and are not economical to harvest.

Because of him, the Carthaginians grew even richer on a harvest of silver and slaves and timber, a fortune that flowed daily into the coffers of their homeland.

They built La Casona with the help of skilled local carpenters of indigenously harvested timber, hand milled on the property.

We built La Casona with the help of skilled local carpenters of locally harvested timber, hand milled on the property.

As players progress, they can purchase additional fields and machinery to grow more crops, and for the first time on mobile, can harvest and sell timber as part of a forestry feature.

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.

This category includes some level of forest and agriculture residues left behind after harvest (some need to remain on the ground to maintain soil fertility); timber processing wastes including sawdust and «black liquor;» and any unused manure, urban wood waste, municipal organic waste, and landfill methane.

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 EUTR prohibits the placing of illegally harvested timber on the European market.

That project is built on the premise that a commercial logger would have practiced «liquidation» logging — which involves harvesting available timber as soon as it's economically viable to do so.

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.

For timber, all wood must be certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 100 % labeling standards, from salvaged sources, or from the intentional harvest of on - site timber for the purpose of clearing the area for construction or restoring / maintaining the continued ecological function of the on - site bionetwork.

[127] Granting rights to third parties to harvest timber on Tsilhqot» in land is a serious infringement that will not lightly be justified.

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.