Timber Forest Articles & Analysis
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The House passed a bill Thursday designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and discouraging lawsuits that delay projects. The goal is to speed up timber harvests and underbrush removal that the U.S. Forest Service deems necessary to improve ...
Accurate climate models depend on accurate assessment of the carbon cycle, and the forests play a critical role. Timber in the forests is essentially carbon in the bank. ...
The forestry sector moves up the scale at Expobiomasa If the amount of exhibition floor space seems surprising for a specialised fair devoted exclusively to biomass, then this is mainly due to the 8,000 m2 of machinery and equipment for handling timber on display in ‘Expobiomasa Forestal’ included in the main fair. This was thanks to a specific call ...
Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation – especially in privately owned forests – falls short of its potential. ...
Key findings of the preliminary assessment of links between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people, prepared by the International Union of Forest Research Organisations' Global Forest Experts Panel (GFEP), were released this week (16 October) at the international biodiversity meeting in Hyderabad. The GFEP's expert panel on biodiversity, ...
Under these programs, enrolled lands are assessed not at their fair market value (for housing development and the like) but at their value for timber production and other forest uses. This lowers the tax bill for landowners, improves the profitability of timber production, and helps reduce development pressure. ...
The types of permits which will not be exempted include loan use and business permit use for timber in natural forests issued by Ministry of Forestry, lease rights and use rights issued by the National Land Agency, and recommendations for and location permits issued by Governors and Regents/Mayors. ...
WRI and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Tourism (MECNT) are pleased to announce the release of the interactive map viewer for the Forest Atlas of the Democratic Republic of Congo. En Français The Government of DRC faces many challenges in developing comprehensive forest management and ...
SGS Forestry Monitoring Programme (GIS) is pleased to announce that, on January 20, 2010, it signed a five year contract with the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism (MECNT) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to initiate implementation of an integrated forest control system to monitor and verify forest logging, timber ...
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'In this case,' she added, 'that incentive is a market for responsibly harvested timber and non-timber forest products.' FSC certification indicates that a forest is responsibly managed. ...