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Cuomo announced completion of a years - long effort to buy and preserve 69,000 acres of timber lands in the heart of the Adirondacks.

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Mills in Atlantic Canada are exempt because most of their timber comes from private lands — they conform comfortably to the US lumber lobby's prejudices.

Minor episodes are added to explain details upon which Scripture is silent» the sons» wives are sent to distant lands to gather pairs of animals, and it is the giants, mentioned briefly before Noah appears, who provide the timber for the Ark» but nothing in the account is altered.

One member cooperative with 500 indigenous Maya Mam families, Asociación de Silvicultores de Chancol, struggled to make a living from the 6,200 acres (2,500 ha) of reforested land it owns despite a donation of timber processing equipment in 2006; Guatemalan laws have a strong bias against rural forestry businesses.

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.

In 1923, James Hobb donated 23 acres along Hickory Creek, adjacent to Pilcher Park and, in 1924, the Higginbotham family donated an additional 239 acres of cutover timber land east of Pilcher ParIn 1923, James Hobb donated 23 acres along Hickory Creek, adjacent to Pilcher Park and, in 1924, the Higginbotham family donated an additional 239 acres of cutover timber land east of Pilcher Parin 1924, the Higginbotham family donated an additional 239 acres of cutover timber land east of Pilcher Park.

She also was key in the passage of the Timber Theft Law, which deals with those who steal timber from private or public lands, and in expanding net metering to encourage investment in renewable power production including solar, wind and waste eTimber Theft Law, which deals with those who steal timber from private or public lands, and in expanding net metering to encourage investment in renewable power production including solar, wind and waste etimber from private or public lands, and in expanding net metering to encourage investment in renewable power production including solar, wind and waste energy.

«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.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

Usher Griner and her husband came on board in 1989, and the company has operated as Usher Land & Timber since 1992.

But Caldwell said Usher Land and Timber stands out among its peers because in addition to its cattle operations, it also has timber operaTimber stands out among its peers because in addition to its cattle operations, it also has timber operatimber operations.

In 2014, the then Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Barbara Serwaa Asamoah indicated that the government was going to commence with the importation of timber.

«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.

Professor Kassim Kassanga, former Minister of Lands and Forestry secretly re-awarded 42 Timber Utilisation Contracts from the NDC era that the NPP Government had cancelled to cronies and favorites of the NPP in gross violation of the principles of transparency, among which beneficiaries was Mrs. Comfort Wereko - Brobbey, President Kufuor's sister whose husband was a member of the Forestry Commission Board and who was given 89 square kilometres of the Asukese Forest Reserve.

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.

Under the plan, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management authorized 23 timber sales around the Umpqua River in southwestern Oregon with the NMFS stamp of approval.

However, most of the land surrounding coho streams in California and Oregon is timber country, and if the coho is to recover there will have to be changes in logging practices to protect stream habitats, she says.

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.

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.

Similarly if you own woodland, those who receive it in your will can apply for the timber on it, but not the land itself, to be deemed exempt.

«For one thing, every point of view has its own science and economics to support its contentions, whether it be pro- or anti- pesticide use, free - roaming cats, bird collisions with glass or towers, conflicts with fisheries, land conversion, wind energy, mining, timbering, climate change, or any other issue we consider in addressing bird conservation...» [2]

Take a picnic down to the Mary River Parklands and enjoy a riverside feast in the company of the Maryborough Bollards, seven colourful timber posts representing a sea captain welcoming a family of immigrants landing at the Port of Maryborough in the 1860s.

After Wizpig is defeated in Future Fun Land, a carved mountain head of him in the hub area of Timber's Island is replaced by a golden Taj head.

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The easiest solution would be to allow timber and lumber companies, even in far off lands, to be certified by U.S. officials.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

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.

The majority of these land - use change emissions come from deforestation in developing countries, where forests are being cleared for agriculture and timber.

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

But while some of these lands could support bioenergy plants, the opportunity costs of doing so are high in a world that needs at least 70 percent more crops, livestock, and commercial timber by 2050.

It highlights that reinvestment in forests is necessary to reduce timber import dependence, support biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, revitalise rural economies and protect land and populations from environmental hazards and the impacts of climate change.

These plans help ensure that the public lands are managed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield, recognizing the Nation's need for domestic sources of minerals, food, timber, and fiber while protecting the quality of scientific, scenic, historical, ecological, environmental, air and atmospheric, water, and archaeological values.

When I wrote the first edition of «The War Against the Greens» in 1994 I predicted that the violent «Wise Use» backlash against environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerful force.

Paying timber owners not to cut down forests that serve as carbon sinks (the idea behind the REDD proposal to the UNFCCC), or paying farmers not to cultivate land in order reduce erosion damage (as is being done in China and the US), are examples.

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.

These problems are compounded by deforestation, carried out in order to make room for increased agriculture as well as for commercial timber, and slash and burn land conversion for cattle grazing.

The term land use is also used in the sense of the social and economic purposes for which land is managed (e.g., grazing, timber extraction and conservation).

They will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.»

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.

The country's political commitment to tackling deforestation and forest degradation has been questioned — for example, it remains the largest exporter of timber in the world, and continues to back large - scale land conversion plans under a paradigm of «green development».

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.

Increasingly, this work is highlighting illegal land use / conversion, the role of conversion timber in the global sourcing of wood fiber, and agricultural supply chains from legal or zero - deforestation zones.

Patrick has worked on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's «arms for timber» trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness's work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics.

This cellulose - filled timber frame house in the Suffolk countryside combines a rustic timber aesthetic with a simple contemporary form to rest lightly on the land.

The project began in 2007, when the Conservancy purchased the largest remaining unprotected timber tract in the Adirondacks: 161,000 acres once owned by paper manufacturer Finch, Pruyn & Co. (The Conservancy first came to know these lands, seeing firsthand how well managed they were, in 2000 when the company hired our scientists to oversee a biological inventory to help prepare for sustainable forestry certification.)

The proposal by our old pals the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could reopen the 1990s debate over timber production on federal lands; logging companies had argued that efforts to save the owl — declared a threatened species in 1990 — contributed to the Northwest timber industry's decline.

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Sixty percent of the 30 million acres of hardwood bottoms once found in the Southeast have already been destroyed to make way for agricultural land and timber tracts.

Specifically, they looked at historical rates of deforestation to see how much of their forest would likely be chopped down for pasture, and then they started measuring the amount of carbon in their forest and in pasture land — using methods that had, ironically, been developed and perfected by timber merchants.