Tropical peat swamp lands in the Southeast Asia which store tremendous large amount of carbon in their peat layer and abundant biodiversity are now endangered by human activities such as deforestation, forest fires, land development and urbanization. To earlier start a better environmental policy for conservation of nature of the tropical peat swamp area is one of the preferential global issues...

containing protected areas (i.e., national parks, national monuments, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas) are growing more rapidly than counties without such areas (Rasker et al. 2004). Undeveloped private lands adjacent to these protected areas are especially vulnerable to economic growth, particularly rural residential development. Between 1970 and 2000, rural residential development in t...

Hurricanes can instantaneously affect millions of acres of forestland. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo reduced the inventory of softwood growth stock by 2 I percent in South Carolina (Sheffield and Thompson 1992). Annual forest inventories will provide nearly real-time estimates of change following catastrophic events. T h e ecological and economic sustainability of southern forests is in question. Leg...

BACKGROUND In the study, the Aras Basin and its environment, one of the most important hydrological basins of Turkey, was evaluated. In survey area, to determine the change of air quality, it was benefited from 23,770 pieces of hourly measured SO2 (Sulfur dioxide) and PM10 (particulate matter) concentration values for the December, January and February of 2009-2010 in which the pollution is at ...

Historical forest landscape dynamics include consideration of spatial and temporal distributions of forest conditions over recent history and also historical disturbance regimes. Understanding of historical landscape dynamics in these senses is relevant to planning future management of federal forest lands on both policy and ecological grounds. Although some particular elements of our policy fr...

In 1995, the Philippines officially adopted Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) as its strategy for sustainable forest management in recognition of the urgent need to put “social fences” in open access forests and forest lands. CBFM was conceptualized to partly respond to the issue of the state as being the biggest “absentee landlord” by recognizing de-facto resource management of communit...

Public timberlands represent the smallest of major ownership classes in Arkansas; of the State’s 18.38 million ac of timberland, the public owns 3.198 million ac, or 17.4 percent. Of that total, > 85 percent is in Federal ownership (70.8 percent in national forests). State lands account for 12.4 percent, and county and municipal lands, about 2 percent. Compared to other ownerships, public timbe...

Balancing economic, ecological, and social values has long been a challenge in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, where conflict over timber harvest and old-growth habitat on public lands has been contentious for the past several decades. The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted two decades ago to guide management on federal lands, is currently being revised as the region searches for a balance be...

A concern in the forestry literature is the perceived difference in production behavior between industrially owned forest land and land managed by nonindustrial private forest (NIPJ?) owners (Clawson; Binkley; USDA Forest Service). For instance, in the southern United States, a large share of the region’s softwood timber production (35%) comes from the relatively small share of forested acreage...