Sentences with phrase «timber resources»

Since the 1950s, these forests have largely been logged for rich timber resources or converted for agricultural use such as palm oil.

«It's one of the unique characteristics of the asset class,» says Tim Cayen, director of business development at Boston's Hancock Timber Resource Group.

Project partners include four SFI Program Participants: Hancock Timber Resource Group, Lyme Timber Company, LandVest, and Resource Management Service, who will each host a study site.

The key difference, however, is that the endowments include a number of asset classes that are not available to retail investors, including private equity, hedge funds, and direct ownership of timber resources and commercial real estate.

Its protection ensures ongoing timber resource protection, safeguards water quality of the Salmon River and allows for continued public access to state sanctioned snowmobile trails and other outdoor recreation,» according to Conservation Fund press release.

Horrified that farmers and loggers were stripping America of its trees five times faster than they were growing, and worried about the economic consequences of a «timber famine,» President Theodore Roosevelt created the federal Forest Service and pushed landowners to start sustaining timber resources.

That report was released in May 2014, and substantiated the band members» claim that the Batchewana First Nation had the right to harvest timber resources for sustenance, trade or sale under the 1850 Robinson Treaty, which had likely not been extinguished under the 1859 Pennefather Treaty.

• Locate and procure all fiber and timber resources required for the mill from Southwest Georgia, South Alabama, North Florida, and Mississippi.

This 256.60 acre, 29Â parcel highway and riverfront package consists of rural commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, farm forest and timber resource zonings.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

We will not give away our valuable timber and water resources to a company that does not honour its historic commitments on industrial development of our timber resources.