After finishing my Ph.D. in Berkeley in 1971, I needed a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, while my wife was finishing her Ph.D. in statistics. It was a tough year jobwise and the only available position was a part-time job with the US Forest Service Station in Berkeley, which funded a position as a Research Engineer at the OR Center at UC Berkeley. My boss and friend up to today, Daniel Navon...

In northern Sweden, the availability of arboreal lichens (Bryoria fuscescens, Alectoria sarmentosa) as winter grazing resources is an important element in reindeer husbandry. With the industrialization of forestry, forests rich in arboreal lichens have diminished considerably. Here, we analyze how forestry has impacted lichen availability from the 1920's to the present day and model its future ...

Olofsson, E. 2006. Supporting management of the risk of wind damage in south Swedish forestry. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7095-1 Private forest owners in southern Sweden consider wind damage to be one of the most problematic risks from an economic perspective. A potential climate change also raises the question of the possible impact of such a climate change on the risk ...

Classic methodologies for carbon footprint are made for conventional companies or territories. None is well adapted for entire sectors or parts of sectors, which usually contain numerous and very different companies, such in the forestry. In this work, we proposed a methodology to count GHG emissions for forestry in a region, from harvest preparation to the entrance of industries. We divided fo...

Forestry, as a large industry, has significant impacts on the quality of nature-based tourism landscapes in boreal forests. In Finland, the rapid growth of nature-based tourism has expanded outdoor recreation activities from protected areas into timber production forests; this is particularly so in northern Finland. This paper focuses on assessing balanced local net impacts of three alternative...

G. S. Pegg*, F. R. Giblin, A. R. McTaggart, G. P. Guymer, H. Taylor, K. B. Ireland, R. G. Shivas and S. Perry Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Horticulture and Forestry Science, Agri-Science Queensland, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld 4001; Forest Industries Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, Qld 4558; Queensland Alliance for Agricultu...

Community forestry offers potential for socioeconomic benefits while maintaining ecosystem services. In Mexico, government and donor efforts to develop this sector focus on issues within forest communities. Often overlooked are effects of external non-government actors (NGOs and foresters) as links or barriers between communities and funding, capacity building, and technical support. To analyze...

This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to forest sequestration we couple two global models. An energy-economy-climate model for the study of climate policies is linked with a detailed forestry model through an iterative procedure to provide t...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol10/i1547-3465-10-305.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10:305-320 (2012) Girmay Zenebe, Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, School of Forestry, P. O. Box 128, Shahemene, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Mohammed Zerihun, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Zewdie Solomon, Hawassa Un...