We study the restoration of coal mining dumps through reforestation in forest-steppe zone Kuzbass. 3 main forest-forming species ( Betula pendula, Pinus sylvestris and Populus tremula ) 11 accompanying tree were involved formation forest stands. The was pendula . amount renewal found to be 10.7, 3.1 1.0 thousand pcs/ha sites with favourable, moderate favourable unfavourable environmental condit...

Potential interactions between food production and climate mitigation are explored for two situations in sub-Saharan Africa, where deforestation and land degradation overlap with hunger and poverty. Three agriculture intensification scenarios for supplying nitrogen to increase crop production (mineral fertilizer, herbaceous legume cover crops--green manures--and agroforestry--legume improved tr...

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 rewrote the reforestation tax incentives available to private forest owners. Owners can now deduct outright reforestation costs up to $10,000 per year for each qualified timber property and amortize any additional amount over 8 tax years. To assess the economic effect of the new incentives on forest owners, the authors developed spreadsheets to calculate a...

Over the past 10 years, Mexican officials and scientists have promoted the project of protecting Mexican forests in order to mitigate climate change, forests acting to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This article compares existing policies around mass reforestation and markets for environmental services, and their relationships to a policy in construction - Reduced Emissions through ...

The effects of long-term reforestation on soil microbial communities and biomass are poorly understood. This study was conducted on two coniferous plantations: Cunninghamia konishii Hayata, planted 40 years ago (CONIF-40), and Calocedrus formosana (Florin) Florin, planted 80 years ago (CONIF-80). An adjacent natural broadleaf forest (BROAD-Nat) was used as a control. We determined microbial bio...

In this study the potentialities of ERS/ENVISAT-SAR multitemporal data for the analysis of the reforestation process over burned areas are investigated. The summer 2000 fire devastating a large part of the Castel Fusano pinewood (near Rome) is the selected test case. A first objective is to evaluate the capability of detecting the boundaries of the burned area only using SAR imagery and conside...

JDSF was recently contacted by the UC Forest Products Labor­ atory (FPL) with a request for madrone and tanoak logs for exper­ imental testing. The only requirement was that the logs be a minimum of 18 inches in diameter at the small end. Chief Sales Officer Hank Land and Heavy Forestry Equipment Operator Mike Williams were equal to the task. They felled, bucked and loaded the logs onto Univers...