Economic transitions have a wide variety of impacts on rural forest-located communities. Uncertain employment prospects and lack local higher education institutions may increase out-migration, while individual connections to the natural environment community itself bind youth their origin. We analyzed over 2,000 survey responses from middle high school traditionally forest-dependent communities...

We have analyzed the properties of low column density Lyα forest clouds (12.8 ≤ logNHI ≤ 16.0) toward 5 QSOs at different redshifts, using high signal-to-noise data from the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck I 10-m telescope. The results are used to study the evolution of these clouds in the interval 2.1 < z < 3.5. We find: 1) The differential density distribution of forest clouds, f(NHI), fits an...

Key issues in encouraging forest management at the interface level in the oak woodlands are fire abatement, stand improvement, infection reduction, and hazard tree removal. The development of effective management prescriptions for stand improvement and economic returns provide guidance for homeowners, appraisers, and realtors. The purpose of this research project was to determine the effects of...

forests are an important economic source for human and have key role in nutrient cycle, hydrology and ecosystem performance, any interference in this vital ecosystem causes to damage to forests. mechanical logging and road construction in forest areas have led to much soil compaction. soil physical and chemical properties were studied in parts of road and non-road in the darabkola forest of ira...

Land use planning often is implemented to control development on forests and farmland, but its impact on land use remains untested. Previous studies evaluating such programs have relied on anecdotal evidence rather than on data describing actual land use change. A model of land use is specified as a function of socioeconomic factors, land rent, and landowners’ characteristics, to examine how we...

Cities are territories vulnerable to climate change. An alternative increase resilience and mitigate the effects of context is urban forest planning ecosystem services. This research constructed a cover sustainability index, based on 147 semi-structured interviews with residents four residential areas city Santo Domingo (Gazcue, Zona Colonial, Ciudad Nueva, San Carlos), in which information was...