Sentences with phrase «with timber harvesting»

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.

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The Rainforest Alliance worked with the community of Tres Islas, located in the biodiversity capital of the Peruvian Amazon, to develop a sustainable economy that includes non-timber forest products like Brazil nuts and palm fruit, as well as sustainably harvested timber.

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.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

«We found that under current timber - harvesting intensities, Amazon forests logged with reduced - impact logging techniques shall recover their initial carbon stock in 7 to 21 years,» says Ervan Rutishauser of CarboForExpert in Switzerland and CIRAD in France.

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.

Incontrast to corn stover, wood wastehas limited potential due to the high cost associated with collection andtransportation (in the case of wood left over from timber harvesting) andcompeting uses (in the case of mill residues, which are currently used formulch, particle board, and to power other facilities).

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.

Wood is a wonderful building material; It is lovely to work with, warm in appearance and if sustainably harvested, sequesters Carbon Dioxide for the life of the timber.

Re «I believe the best thing to do now with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the land, then grow organic sugarcane for ethanol production.»

I believe the best thing to do now with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the land, then grow organic sugarcane for ethanol production.

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.

If this forest impoverishment is to be controlled, then logging activities need to be restricted or replaced with low - impact timber harvest techniques, and more effective strategies to prevent accidental forest fires need to be implemented.

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.

He is asking people around the world to stop purchasing furniture from China and Vietnam because so much of it is made with timber illegally harvested from Southeast Asia.

«Timber, turf, stone and straw will be harvested locally with the support of Abriachan Forest Trust, Reelig Community Woodland and local farmers.

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 recent study analysed the possibility of combining the harvesting of traditional species for the timber industry with less - known or less - used species for energy production (ITTO, 2005).

A community may also contract with a third party to commercially harvest timber.

It is built to seriously green and healthy specifications, with sheep's wool insulation, sustainably harvested timber, wool mattresses and «environmentally friendly paint.»

That is precambrian shield country with basically zero timber harvest.

Finally, the Court upheld the exemption clause in the license which «expressly provides that Province is not liable for any losses suffered by Moulton as a result of an act of a third party, including any act or threat to act that interferes with accessing the timber harvest areas» (para. 106).

If Moulton had spoken with representatives of the First Nation it would have most likely become aware of the probability that there would be interference with its ability to harvest the timber and it could have taken appropriate action.