The many opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions in developing countries include reforesting degraded lands, implementing sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands and slowing tropical deforestation. This analysis shows that over the next 10 years, 48 major tropical and subtropical developing countries have the potential to reduce the atmospheric carbon burden by ab...

A major force affecting many forest ecosystems is the encroachment of residential, commercial and industrial development. Analysis of the complex interactions between development decisions and ecosystems, and how the environmental consequences of these decisions influence human values and subsequent decisions will lead to a better understanding of the environmental consequences of private choic...

Continuing depletion of forest resources, particularly in tropical developing countries, has turned vast areas of intact ecosystems into urbanized and agricultural lands. The degree of degradation varies, but in most cases, the ecosystem functions and the ability to provide a variety of ecosystem services are severely impaired. In addition to many other challenges, successful forest restoration...

from the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team on the forestry project that we just completed. The report contains 19 specific recommendations. Most are directed to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), but there are also recommendations for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Forest Research Laboratory (FRL). This report focuses on topics involving the management of (...

Forest Resource Use Contracts in Latin America Description of Contracts in Governments Lands Contract Objectives Conclusions Constraints to Achieving Contract Objectives Financial Context of Forest Management in the Humid Tropics Forest Management Techniques Political and Regulatory Constraints Constraints due to Property and User Rights by Local Communities Conclusions Case Studies Peru: Priva...

Natural resource extraction and environmentalism are deeply engrained in the social fabric of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.A.) and are often pitted against one another in age-old timber wars that reached a climax in the 1980s and early 1990s. No other species typified these battles more than the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), whose listing pursuant to the Endangered Species Ac...

Predictive and conceptual models are used to examine the contamination, toxicology, and residues of sodium fluoroacetate (Compound 1080) in relation to its application in vertebrate pest control programmes on forest and pastoral lands. As a pesticide, the toxin appears to be neither mobile nor persistent. Exceedingly slender opportunities exist therefore for significant contamination of suscept...

In many parts of the world, substantial shares of timber inventories are managed by government agencies. The objective of this chapter is to examine the potential influence of public timber production on market structure as well as on prices, harvest quantities, and economic welfare. National forest management in the United States is used as a tractable case study, but findings provide general ...

We have developed a near-real time deforestation monitoring system, named SAD (Sistema de Alerta de Desmatamento) to monitor the Brazilian Amazon states. Here, we present how SAD works and has been used to monitor deforestation in different types of forest reserves in the State of Mato Grosso, and the potential use of this information to stop illegal deforestation in these reserves. The types o...

Forest biodiversity policies in multi-ownership landscapes are typically developed in an uncoordinated fashion with little consideration of their interactions or possible unintended cumulative effects. We conducted an assessment of some of the ecological and socioeconomic effects of recently enacted forest management policies in the 2.3-million-ha Coast Range Physiographic Province of Oregon. T...