Forest Resource Management Articles & Analysis
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TL;DR — As wildfires become an increasingly frequent part of our world due to a changing climate, forest management practices that maintain healthy forests play a vital role in protecting ecosystems, public health, and air quality. By implementing wildfire prevention strategies at the individual and agency levels, establishing resilient air quality monitoring networks, and understanding ...
This reduces reliance on virgin wood pulp, promoting sustainable forest management. Biodegradable Bliss: Unlike their foam counterparts, paper egg cartons decompose naturally, leaving minimal impact on landfills and the environment. ...
Abstract In recent years, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has become widely utilized across various sectors. Forestry management is among these, employing LiDAR to assess tree crown health, create terrain maps, estimate timber volume, and perform numerous other tasks. This article discusses the use of LiDAR for practical forestry, as it is a critical field on which many species of ...
Lao PDR's vulnerability to climate change impacts is exacerbated by its limited resources and capacity to invest in adaptive climate measures to protect its economy and rural population. ...
FutMon project Delta‐T Profile Probes have been installed at four sites across the U.K. to provide soil moisture data as part of FutMon, an EU Life+ project. The aim of FutMon is to create a Europe‐ wide long term forest monitoring system. The FutMon partner organisation in the UK is Forest Research (Centre for Forestry and Climate Change). The data required for FutMon are being ...
Never before has the interest in preserving natural forests and efficient management of plantations been as great as the present. Demand for wood products is increasing. On the other hand, it is also evident that the remaining forests have to be protected to maintain our quality of life—the very air we breathe depends on them. Therefore, precision management, which has been successfully ...
Accurate scale data is paramount to proper fiber supply management. Without, it becomes difficult to conduct essential business activities, such as prove wood origin or pay suppliers. Manual entry by truck drivers or even scale attendants still leaves room for expensive mistakes and while paper trip tickets are helpful, the paperwork burdens you with extra data-entry. ALDATA’s web-based ...
They are: SMSYardBoss – Specifically designed for fiber supply management, the implementation of this software will help you handle the many variations in raw material supply chain management practices across all facility and fiber types. ...
Properties that are considering long-term easements for forests tracts are great candidates for carbon payments. It is important to note that landowners are not required to stop harvesting trees to be eligible for forest carbon projects, rather, they have to agree to a long-term timber management plan and harvest below annual growth. ...
The combination of legal and illegal logging in southwest Ghana’s tropical forests is having a devastating impact on bird populations in the region, according to new research published recently in the journal Biological Conservation. Between 1995 and 2010, logging in the Upper Guinea rain forest — one of the world’s biodiversity hot spots — increased by over 600 percent. ...
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The paper analyses the implications of two approaches to management of protected areas. First, it analyses the current property rights regime for conservation of natural resources and the socioeconomic development of local communities in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. Second, it reviews an informal community–conservation initiative for a local ...
The day I first set foot in a tropical rainforest, in Malaysia in the early 1980s, I experienced something profound. From the echoes of gibbons calling from the canopy in the early morning mist to the iridescent flash of a bird in a beam of sunlight, rainforests are a sensory delight as well as a marvel to anyone’s scientific curiosity. As I subsequently watched these forests dwindle and, ...
The nationwide five million hectare reforestation programme (5MHRP) was adopted by the Government of Vietnam as a comprehensive policy to address deforestation and poverty in the mountainous regions all over Vietnam. The programme started in 1998 and ended in 2010. It received significant national and international interests. Scholars and practitioners have commented on the effectiveness and/or ...
It’s apt that we are in Peru, where forests are important as a natural resource and for the economy. A study presented on 2 December, which assessed the carbon-storage capacity of the Amazonian region, shows that territories that are home to indigenous people store about a third of the region’s carbon stocks. ...
Although they are primarily an island-dwelling people, the Guna maintain a symbiotic relationship with their mainland forest — some of the best preserved old-growth forest in all of Central America — which they consider sacred and from which they take only what they need. Since 2008, the Guna’s forest has been at the center of ...
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” TNC is jump-starting the future forest to protect not only the forest, but also the goods the forest provides, such as clean water, wildlife habitat, tourism, logs and pulpwood. ...
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A main threat to forest biodiversity is the loss of 'naturalness' of forest ecosystems as a consequence of intensive and inappropriate ecosystem management. ...
Yet the reality is that many protected areas lack these resources. Updated maps of forest damage can take years to produce, making it difficult to know where to focus limited enforcement efforts. ...
Dismissed as a weed or marginalized in traditional forest management, bamboo could actually play an important role in forest and landscape restoration. ...
A New Tool to Promote Better Forest Management Much more important than the technology, though, are the evolving efforts of governments, communities, and a handful of large companies to do a better job of managing forests. ...