Introduction Community Based Forestry (CBF) implies commitment to the long term ecological, economic and social well being of forest dependent communities. CBF, or community scale sustainable forestry, constitutes a departure from industrial forestry due to this commitment to the preservation of the ecological integrity of the forest ecosystem in perpetuity and to the maintenance or improvement...

Paper Abstract: This paper will introduce the reader to the processes a team of individuals from Management, Forestry, Consultants, and Computer Science backgrounds employed to gather user needs/ requirements for a Forestry Portal. The paper will first inform the reader on the background and objectives of the Forestry Portal Project and then discuss the lessons learned and future steps in condu...

From the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Section of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, and the Specialized Ce...

saeed baghery was born in amol/mazandaran (iran) in 1985. he completed his b.sc. in pure chemistry in 2009 from islamic azad university of amol, mazandaran, iran. he was graduated from m.sc. degree under the supervision of dr. seyed mohammad vahdat in organic chemistry from islamic azad university of amol, mazandaran, iran. he is currently organic chemistry ph.d student under the supervision of...

We describe a simple cost-effective technique for the transport of binary vector plasmid DNA by mail. Our results demonstrate that common multipurpose printing paper is a satisfactory substrate and superior to the more absorbent 3 MM chromatography paper for the transport of plasmid DNA through the mail. We show that depositing as little as 100 ng of purified plasmid onto multipurpose printing ...

BACKGROUND The development of affordable woody biomass feedstocks represents a significant opportunity in the development of cellulosic biofuels. Primary woodchips produced by forest mills are considered an ideal feedstock, but the prices they command on the market are currently too expensive for biorefineries. In comparison, forestry residues represent a potential low-cost input but are consid...

The impact of agriculture, forestry and metal mining on the quality of fine-grained sediment (<63 μm) was investigated in the Quesnel River Basin (QRB) (~11,500 km(2)) in British Columbia, Canada. Samples of fine-grained sediment were collected monthly during the snow-free season in 2008 using time-integrated samplers at replicate sites representative of agriculture, forestry and mining activit...