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A survey of 500 New Brunswickers conducted between September 1st and 3rd shows overwhelming support for conserving forests and protecting critical habitat for fish and wildlife, with voters looking favourably on parties willing to act. ...
“We are looking forward to growing Proforest in close cooperation with the City of Kalajoki and the best players in the forest machine industry. The team of Jtm Experts, Tomi Ruuska , Juhana Männikkö and Markku Laitinen , who led the proforest in the first two rounds , will continue to support the event. ...
JTM Experts have done a great job for the forest machine industry, and we look forward to developing a cutting-edge forest machine industry event, ”says Tomi Niemi, CEO of Expomark . ...
Forest-based industries also see significant benefits in the PEFC endorsement. “Forest-based industries in India have been pushing for forest certification to enhance their access to international markets,” said Sachin Raj Jain, Convener, NCCF. “Our PEFC endorsement will help us make the Indian ...
This information comes from the US Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, and it helps us illustrate a point that we at Enviva and others in the region’s forestry industry take pride in: the US South is a robustly forested landscape with a timber resource that’s growing far faster than its ...
The commitment, announced in conjunction with the industry’s National Forest Week celebrations, builds on FPAC’s ambitious “30 by 30” Climate Challenge that proposes to remove 30 megatonnes of CO2 a year by 2030—more than 13 per cent of the federal government’s entire goal. ...
“Agriculture, natural resources and related food industries remain a significant force in the economy of Florida, and it is important to recognize the economic contributions of these industries to ensure informed public policy.” At nearly $9 billion in industry output impacts, forestry and forest product ...
First, the Holmen Group, which includes Iggesund Paperboard, is a forest industry group so using wood is an obvious choice. A wooden bridge is also cheaper and faster to build. ...
Soil Scout, provider of innovative ground measuring solutions for the agriculture, forest and environmental industries, has been selected as a winner of the 2015 Red Herring Europe award. ...
Gulfport residents are invited to attend a public meeting about the ongoing cleanup of the Cavenham Forest Industries (CFI) facility. CFI is a former wood treating plant that closed in 1987 after operating for over 80 years at 9502 Creosote Rd. in Gulfport, bordering Turkey creek, Bernard Bayou and Rippy Road-Airport Road. ...
To make it available to wine-barrel industry stakeholders (forest managers, stave mills, coopers, winemakers), the technology will be transferred to the FCBA Technical Institute. ...
Australia already benefits from a PEFC-endorsed national forest certification system, the Australian Forestry Standard(AFS), with about 90% of the production forest area in Australia (or more than 10.5 million hectares) certified to the Australian Standard® for forest management (AS4708–2013). ...
Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation – especially in privately owned forests – falls short of its potential. ...
” “The ETTF has long been a supporter of both sustainable forest management and forest certification,” said André de Boer, ETTF Secretary General. ...
The sold-out PEFC Stakeholder Dialogue on "Advancing Sustainable Trade in Asia", part of the PEFC Forest Certification Week, which started today in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, will provide take stock and identify opportunities to catalyze uptake of sustainable practices within the region. Participants can look forward to solutions-oriented discussions towards mainstreaming ...
The highly efficient mobile wood chipper, TANA BioChipper, was introduced outside Finland for the first time at the major European forest trade show, Elmia Wood 2013 in Sweden. Attended by more than 54 000 forest industry professionals, it was the place to be at. ...
ByTana Oy
The USDANatural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)is accepting applications for funding to apply conservation practices on non-industrial private forestland and shrub land areas in seven Southern California counties. ...
ArborGen’s Geoff Hill, a forester who has worked extensively with ARRI, led two teams of volunteers from public and private organizations. ...
Due to inadequate supply, low quality, and the uneven distribution of Chinese forest resources, demand for industry products surpasses supply, says IBISWorld. As a result, imports of sawmill products have been increasing faster than industry revenue and satisfy over a fifth of domestic demand. In the twelfth five-year planning period (2011 to ...
NRCS employees work with Resource Conservation Districts and other partners to provide one-on-one conservation technical and planning assistance to thousands of farmers and ranchers on voluntarily projects that conserve and protect the natural resources on farms, ranches and private non-industrial forests. Suarez, a native of Puerto Rico, has first-hand ...