Sentences with phrase «timber sales»

They may be using fire lookout towers to monitor timber sales.

The court chastised the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the agency charged with protecting endangered Northwest salmon and cutthroat trout, for basing their approval of timber sales on how they would affect water quality in an entire watershed rather than on specific streams in which salmon spawn.

The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest management contracts (FMCs) and timber sale contracts (TSCs), compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps.

Aboriginal law: The Crown granted Moulton Contracting timber sale licences and a road permit to log certain areas of land within the Behn family territory, which is located within the Fort Nelson First Nation territory.

PORTLAND, OREGON — A U.S. federal appeals court in San Francisco halted a series of timber sales on 31 May, citing faulty science.

[16] Brian Sigurdson says that SFP's financial survival depends largely on securing future inventory by way of timber sale deposits, logs and lumber.

Brian Gorman, a NMFS spokesperson, says that agency biologists may have to conduct a separate full - scale evaluation of each proposed timber sale, which could significantly slow logging on federally owned land in the region.

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.

The ruling also puts on hold another 170 timber sales throughout the Northwest and Northern California until NMFS biologists can come up with a more focused scheme for evaluating the effects of logging on stream health.

NEA has called on Congress to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self - Determination Act, (SRS) which provides critical assistance to rural districts whose funding depends largely on federal timber sales, which have declined precipitously in recent years.

To fund death squads and pro-government militias, Taylor's regime gorged on profits from illegal timber sales.

Rather that amount was tied up in timber sales deposits and a sufficient cushion of logs and lumber to meet the mill's requirements and to provide flexibility to ramp up production in the event of peaks in the lumber market.

Synopsis: The Province of BC sold two timber sale licenses to Moulton Contracting.

Moulton's claim was the result of a blockade set up by members of the Fort Nelson First Nation that prevented access to harvesting sites granted to Moulton under B.C. Timber Sales Licences.

As a result, at any given time, SFP may be sitting on timber sale deposits, logs and lumber worth between $ 4.5 and $ 8.0 million.

Trump then said, according to The Post's reporting on the audio, that his aide returned and reported that the US had a $ 17 billion trade deficit with Canada when energy and timber sales were factored in.

Some attendees, including Suckling, chained themselves across a Forest Service road, blocking access to a timber sale.

Critical habitats aren't protected from logging, although federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife to see if a specific project, such as a timber sale, would jeopardize the recovery of an endangered species.

The Court of Appeal found that there was no implied term of the timber sale licences as to the Provinces knowledge with respect to First Nations expressing dissatisfaction with the consultation process.