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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"forest land"”.
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Monitoring Global Forest Land-Use and Change
<p>Earth’s forests contain nearly three-fourths of the World’s floral and faunal diversity, function as a large carbon sink capable of mitigating the effects of global climate change, affect local and regional physical and chemical cycles and provide wood and non-wood products. However, humans are …
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Reclamation of surface-mined forest land in the southern Appalachians
Most of the surface-mined land in the southern Appalachian coal fields of Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky is forested before mining. For a variety of reasons, most surface-mined land will ultimately return to forest, either by design or through natural succession. The …
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Agricultural and forest land runoff in upper South River near Waynesboro, Virginia
… entering the South River included agricultural, forest and urban land drainage as well as domestic and industrial wastewater effluents. The yields of materials from the various sources were computed during an intense storm in May, wet weather flow in June, and dry weather flow in July. During the …
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Silvicultural Methods for Improving Hardwood Management on Non-Industrial Private Forest land in Virginia
… useful information for non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners. It is so important to target NIPF landowners because the 350 million acres of timberland they own will play a large part in the future of the United States timber supply (Haynes 2002).
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Economic factors influencing industrial landowner assistance programs on private forest land in the south
The survey of medium-to-large forest industry firms across the South found 11,215 landowners enrolled in formal industrial landowner assistance programs in 1989. LAPs appeal to landowners with relatively large holdings who normally have financial returns as a part of their objectives. The forest …
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Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Private Forest Land Management in Southwest Virginia
… interests in environmental quality on private forest land in Southwest Virginia. I reviewed nearly 300 pages of interview text, looking for emerging themes and structures from their hour-long (on average) discussions of environmental quality. I found that among these 24 stakeholders, there were …
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The background of state forest practice legislation and its impact upon forest land use and management
… background and implementation of the states' forest practice acts. The changing national attitudes toward the use and abuse of forest resources was traced as historical background. For each state, the political forces involved with forests were examined to determine how they contributed to the …
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A Survey of Conservation Easement Restrictions on Private Forest Land to Determine their Effects on Forest Management and Timber Supply
… easements are increasingly becoming a popular land use control for landowners, government agencies and non-profit conservation organizations. These legal documents restrict a landowner's development rights and constrain other property uses. The landowner (grantor) voluntarily places an easement …
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A contextual classification approach for forest land cover mapping using high spatial resolution multispectral satellite imagery – a case study in Lake Tahoe, California
… intra-class spectral heterogeneity. Detailed forest and vegetation classification is extremely challenging at this scale with both high intra-class spectral heterogeneity and inter-class spectral homogeneity. A solution to these issues is to take into account not only a pixel’s spectral …
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Den Tree Avaliability and Denning Success of Black Bears on Industrial Forest Lands and National Forest Lands in Virginia and West Virginia
… of black bears was investigated on industrial forest lands and national forest lands in Virginia and West Virginia. One hundred and fifty seven potential den trees were found on five study areas, 135 on national forest lands and 22 on the industrial forest lands. Twenty-seven hollow potential …
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The potential for trickle up : how local actors' experiments influence national forest policy planning
The loss of forests in Vietnam encouraged central government policy makers to consider new ways to manage forest resources. A major forest policy shift -- moving away from state-led management -- began in earnest in pilot provinces in 1998, with the handing over of forest land and management …
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Planning for small forest landscapes: facilitating the connection between people and nature
A significant area of forest land in the United States is held by a diverse group of people known by the US Forest Service as family forest owners. Surveys reveal that family forest owners own forest land for a variety of reasons including scenery, nature protection, recreation, privacy, timber …
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The expanding distribution of Ixodes scapularis and associated pathogens in the Chicago, IL, metropolitan area
… with the disease including into urban landscapes. To investigate landscape factors that may influence the colonization of I. scapularis and its associated pathogens in an urban ecosystem, 45 sites were sampled along three transects spanning the urban-to-rural human land use gradient in …
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Combined federal-state death tax implications for nonindustrial private forest landowners in the United States
… individuals may be quite different from society, forest landowners are one group who face potentially serious problems due to death taxes. Illiquidity, low cash flows and credit problems can cause difficulties for heirs of forest land. Death taxes are examined from a historical, legal and economic …
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The impact of including water constraints on food production within a CGE framework
… relationship between water resources, irrigated land use change and crop production within a computable general equilibrium modeling framework. The modeling approach is developed on a variant of the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model that describes three agriculture …
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The forest property tax situation in Virginia
… the Virginia property tax, as it is applied to forest lands, may have harmful effects on forest management in Virginia. In order to accomplish this objective, an investigation was made of the theoretical aspects of the general property tax as applied to forest land, including a definition of tax …
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Adoption of sustainable forestry practices by Non-Industrial Private Forest owners in Virginia
The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has been promoted in the past few decades all over the world. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners play an important role in that aspect in the U.S. because of their number (about 16 millions), the size of forest land under their control …
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An evaluation of stakeholder involvement in the B.C. Ministry of Forests planning process
Disputes over forest land use and forest land management continue despite a formal planning process administered by the Ministry of Forests that is designed to achieve integrated resource use planning on B.C. Crown lands. These disputes result in costly and time-consuming delays in the completion …
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Fall Food Habits of the Merriams' Wild Turkey in Western South Dakota
… habitat was destroyed by logging and by clearing forest land for agricultural use. Wild turkey population, were also directly decimated because of bunting by early settlers. Edminister (1954) estimated present Wild turkey range to be approximately 1 per cent of the historic range. In the past few …
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Habitat suitability modeling for Lontra canadensis in east Tennessee
… wildlife habitats. With environmental and landscape data, we can determine and assign priority areas for conservation efforts targeting the North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) in east Tennessee and beyond. The focus of the present study is the relationship between otters and land …
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