A raging inferno consumed more than 160,000 acres of national forest north of Los Angeles earlier this month, causing extensive property damage and killing two firefighters before it was eventually snuffed. Fighting these so-called megafires that burn on public lands is the purview of the National Forest Service, and on August 14 th , Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,...

in response to global concerns about the social, environmental and economic consequences of forest loss and degradation. CIFOR research produces knowledge and methods needed to improve the well-being of forest-dependent people and to help tropical countries manage their forests wisely for sustained benefits. This research is done in more than two dozen countries, in partnership with numerous pa...

Classical proof forests are a proof formalism for first-order classical logic based on Herbrand’s Theorem and backtracking games in the style of Coquand. First described by Miller in a cut-free setting as an economical representation of firstorder and higher-order classical proof, defining features of the forests are a strict focus on witnessing terms for quantifiers and the absence of inessent...

Nano particles may be more useful in comparison to bulk materials because they can pass the cell membrane of crops because of their general size. Nano-silicon or SiO2 is one of the major and frequently used engineered oxide nano particles in deferent fields. Quick germination of cultivated seeds and good seedling establishment are key factors to lentil production under salinity stress soil acro...

Forests of Iran located on the Southern border of the Caspian Sea cover 1.9 million hectares. The Caspian forests are divided into four separate forestry areas. One of these being Guilan influx area with total area of 565000 hectares. About 30 to 40 percent of Guilan province forests are suitable to short rotation forestry for afforestation. Slash pine (Pinus elliottii) is one of the main exo...

The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program is a comprehensive effort to address the long-standing problem of underparticipation of African Americans in forest management. We conducted rapid appraisal baseline research for pilot projects in this program in three Southern states using a carefully selected purposive sample to enhance our understanding of minority landowne...

University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, 751 General Services Building, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 4R1, Canada Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Forest Management Branch, 9920-108 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2M4, Canada c Isabella Point Forestry Ltd., 331 Roland Road, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia V8K 1V1, Canada University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, 442...

Alessandro Paletto1, Fabrizio Ferretti2, Isabella De Meo1, Paolo Cantiani3 and Marco Focacci4 1Agricultural Research Council – Forest Monitoring and Planning Research Unit (CRA-MPF), Villazzano di Trento 2Agricultural Research Council – Apennine Forestry Research Unit (CRA-SFA), Isernia 3Agricultural Research Council – Research Centre for Forest Ecology and Silviculture (CRA-SEL), Arezzo 4Land ...

Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Soil Science and Ecology Department 34473 Bahcekoy/Istanbul/Turkey. 2 Istanbul Aydin University, Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Architecture Department, Inonu Cad. No:40, Kucukcekmece/Istanbul, Turkey. Forest Entomology and Protection Department, Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Forest Entomology and Protection 34473 Bahcekoy/Istanbul/Tu...