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From:International Forestry Review (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper analyses the experiences and effectiveness of timber task forces to combat illegal logging. The paper is based on an analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with members of timber task forces and other...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCENTRAL AFRICA'S BAKA PYGMIES, SAYS ROBERT NURDEN, ARE SUFFERING FROM 'DEVELOPMENT' AND WELL-MEANING ATTEMPTS TO HELP THEM. BOUKOU LAURENT SITS on a log under a grass-mat awning at the centre of the compound. As...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOver the past decade, several high-tech pulp mills producing pulp for the global market have been persuaded by government promises of cheap trees and infrastructure grants to set up in the Canadian province of Alberta....
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From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedHigh demand in the US for mahogany caskets is prompting illegal loggers to attack Brazil's rainforests and the people who live there, according to the Rain Forest Action Network. An Oct 1995 statement from the San...
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From:Science (Vol. 288, Issue 5470) Peer-ReviewedLogging and road building carve up otherwise intact expanses of forest into small and isolated islands (forest fragmentation), creating a perimeter of abrupt forest edge where ecological changes take place (1). Edge...
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From:Nature (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedProc. R. Soc. B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1062 (2010) Take a biodiverse rainforest in Southeast Asia. Log it, let the area regrow, then repeat. What do you have? Not much of ecological value, many scientists would say....
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From:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTree classification systems are generally designed to predict the supply of high-quality logs for the wood processing industries and to mark defective trees for removal with the aim of improving both the vigor and...
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From:International Scholarly Research NoticesPeer-ReviewedA study was conducted to determine the impacts of soil disturbance and compaction on soil physical properties and tree growth and the effectiveness of tillage in maintaining or enhancing site productivity for...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 19, Issue 12)Callers from all over the country dial in to find out about citizenship requirements, green cards, more The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new nationwide toll-free telephone service will route more than 1.5...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIs deep ecology a religion? American loggers say it is, and that federal attempts to protect forests on behalf of environmentalists are unconstitutional on these grounds. The Minnesota loggers, who tiled their...
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From:Environmental Law (Vol. 31, Issue 1)Loggers and the United States Forest Service have consistently violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act by taking and killing migratory birds through logging practices. However, neither the Forest Service nor any...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe territory of the uncontacted indigenous tribes of the states of Madre de Dios and Ucayali, known as the Mashco-Piro, is being threatened by loggers; and even a group of missionaries. In response to national and...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe BC government's Working Forest enabling legislation, which zones all of British Columbia's public forest land outside of parks for industrial logging (and for subsequent real estate development), has been passed....
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From:Environment BulletinPeer-ReviewedThe New Zealand government has introduced legislation that will bring to an end to a 30-year campaign by environmentalists to stop the logging of publicly-owned temperate rainforests, and transfer them to national parks...
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From:Science (Vol. 250, Issue 4977) Peer-ReviewedDeveloped for the oil industry, well logging instrumentation based on electrical, acoustic, and nuclear measurements has been providing information about the localization and evaluation of hydrocarbon-bearing strata for...
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From:International Scholarly Research NoticesPeer-ReviewedThis paper assesses the level of interest, awareness, and adoption of ISO 14001 and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification schemes among logging companies in Cameroon. Eleven logging companies located in Douala...
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From:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 46, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe amounts and types of forest products derived from commercial thinning as well as residual stand structure can be influenced by the choice of trees to be harvested. This study compares low thinning (ECbas) and two...
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From:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Disturbance effects on plant communities largely reflect the degree of overstory removal, soil disturbance, and attendant vegetation destruction. We examined initial harvest-related impacts of partial and...
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From:Science (Vol. 280, Issue 5371) Peer-ReviewedFor nearly two decades, governments, environmentalists, and development agencies have explored a variety of approaches to curb the loss of tropical forests. These have included direct investments in conservation and...
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From:Land Economics (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA study was conducted to identify the principles and quantitative methods necessary to estimate factor shares particular to land tenancy groups varying by forest land management intensities. It extends the body of...