Chennai, August 22: A National Forestry Action Programme, providing a comprehensive strategic plan for sustainable forestry development for the next 20 years, has been prepared by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), senior department official said today. Chennai, August 22: A National Forestry Action Programme, providing a comprehensive strategic plan for sustainable forestry development for the next 20 years, has been prepared by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests...

Students may believe forestry is a sunset industry with declining growth, mill closures, logging protests and vulnerability to natural pests like the mountain pine beetle, but these perceptions muddy the fact that forestry is an honourable, sustainable, complex, high-tech, intellectually challenging and well-paying profession. Students may believe forestry is a sunset industry with declining growth, mill closures, logging protests and vulnerability to natural pests like the mountain pine...

Gary Lettman, a department economist, comments in the report that the possibility of further timber industry decline in these parts is "worrisome. Forest Capital is also supplying some timber for other mills in our region. Only a few mills remain, and most of those are limping along, taking what little supply they can get from the feds and scrounging from other, mostly private, sources. By now, people living in Eastern Oregon are accustomed to headlines and news stories about the suffering...

Clear-cutting was forest management' Even if it is forestry management, &#8220don't they have to abide by the same rules and regulations as everybody else would? he asked. The clear-cutting of trees without a permit on a nearly 30-acre site in Carolina Shores' extraterritorial jurisdiction was a forest management activity, a consultant for the property said this week. Timber harvest' In a copy of his April 19 document, a letter directed to the Mitchell heirs, Tate described the...

Weyerhauser saw mills to close. The new mill is expected to employ about 125 people and produce lumber for local and West Coast markets. The company plans to begin construction in the fourth quarter of 2006 and begin operations in the first quarter of 2008. The sawmill on Weirich Drive will permanently close and a new operation will be built at the existing Bauman lumber mill location on Fairview Road. The closure of the Weirich Drive location affects about 60 hourly and salaried...

Draft code will degrade environmental values Thursday, 24 August 2006 THE National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) believes the NSW Government's Draft Code of Practice for Private Native Forestry is inappropriate for private landholders, and rather than promoting sustainable forest management, the code will result in serious environmental as well as socio-economic consequences. Draft code will degrade environmental values Thursday, 24 August 2006 THE National Association of Forest...

Additional features of the proposal include construction of approximately 5 miles of National Forest System road and 12 miles of temporary road, as well as reconstruction of about 3 miles of existing road. The Iyouktug Timber Sale proposal involves harvest of approximately 57 million board feet of timber from about 4,430 acres over a 10-year period. In addition, the boundaries of two small old-growth habitat reserve areas would be adjusted so that they better meet the criteria for such...

Input sought on forest management. and are part of six public input sessions the DNR is conducting around the state. Persons can also submit comments online to dnr-2006sfmp@michigan. GAYLORD Two public meetings will be held in northern Michigan next month to gather input on the state Department of Natural Resource's 2006 state forest management plan. The sessions are set for Aug. Following the public meetings there's a "stakeholder" meeting in Lansing on Aug.

Bracebridge MFTIP workshop a success! Standing room only for workshop aimed at reducing property tax through forest stewardship (Bracebridge, August 14, 2006)This past Thursday night, local residents gathered at the Bracebridge Royal Canadian Legion to learn how to reduce the property taxes on their forested land by up to 75 per cent through Ontarios Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program (MFTIP) Bracebridge MFTIP workshop a success! Standing room only for workshop aimed at reducing property...