Sentences with phrase «timber management in»

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.

Not exact matches

But Sino - Forest disclosed in its management discussion and analysis for both the first and second quarters of 2010 that the revenue was generated by selling standing timber, meaning the company did not cut down and transport any of these trees.

Prior to founding Cordillera, Gus was a Partner at Makena Capital Management where he was responsible for Makena's private and liquid Natural Resources investments in energy, power, mining, agriculture, timber, and commodities.

However, with business management training, technical assistance and legal support from the Rainforest Alliance, the cooperative is now producing one million board - feet of timber per year and projects sales of US$ 130,000 for 2015 — the kind of success that demonstrates that healthy landscapes and thriving communities go hand - in - hand.

Professor David Midmore, of Central Queensland University, has been involved in an Australian government - funded aid project that investigated silvicultural management of bamboo for shoots and timber in the Philippines and Australia.

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.

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.

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.

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

Street Furniture is dedicated to best practice in environmental management and its products are made from premium materials, locally sourced where possible, and it uses eco-certified timber from sustainably managed forests.

In its fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC states, «a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fiber or energy from the forest will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit.»

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.

A new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society states that deforestation has slowed as «controlled timber management» schemes have taken effect and agricultural expansion into forests has slowed.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.

The agreement aims «to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests.»

In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fibre or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit.

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.

MNR insists that the plan complies with all government rules, including the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994, the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006, the 2004 Forest Management Planning Manual (FMPM) for Ontario's Crown Forests (2004), and the Class Environmental Assessment for Timber Management on Crown Land in Ontario.4 Sounds good, doesn't it?

Kevin has extensive experience advising Timberland Investment Management Organizations in all aspects of timberland projects, including, acquisitions, dispositions, timber deeds and leases, long - term supply agreements, conservation easements and carbon sequestration projects, as well as financing related to these projects.

However, unless ownership and management of the resources that go with the land - timber, water, minerals and wildlife, are vested in the traditional owners, there is little to build agreements or governance models on.

Management believes that the ongoing U.S. housing market recovery and a timber supply shortage from Canada will cause demand for its products to strengthen in 2015, but it does not anticipate a near - term rebound in demand from China or Japan.

Discussion includes topics like reasons to invest in forestry and timber land, mill / timber analysis and management, soil impacting ma... [Watch now]

(This is where proper timber management comes in by cutting down a mature tree to open up the canopy and allow those little babies to grow).