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Searching for sustainability: forest policies, smallholders, and the Trans-Amazon Highway.
Environment
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January 1, 2006|
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It is a powerful and disturbing image: loggers driving roads deep into the forest to remove a few mahogany trees, with slash-and-burn settlers following closely on their heels. However, it no longer captures the whole picture of logging in the Brazilian Amazon. So, then, what is the role of logging in the impoverishment or potential conservation of the Amazon rainforest? The answer to this question is deceptively complex: To achieve a sustainable future in Amazon forestry, policymakers and stakeholders must understand the physical, economic and political dimensions of competing ...
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An economic mainstay.(Editorials)(Timber industry hasn't gone away)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; Byline: The Register-Guard Oregon's timber industry milled more lumber in 2003 than in...that there's more going on in the timber industry than mill closures, layoffs and spotted...lumber with fewer workers. Yet the timber industry directly employs 32,000 Oregonians...
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Science and advocacy.(Editorials)(A cautionary tale from OSU's College of Forestry)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...academic freedom and beholden to the timber industry. But the people of Oregon and their...for his part, sent e-mails coaching timber industry representatives on how to rebut Donato...readiness to act as an advocate for the timber industry. Salwasser has apologized for his...
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The timber industry takes its show on the road.
Magazine article from: American Forests
; The Timber Industry Takes Its Show On The Road We've...of media coverage for what the timber industry calls preservationist thinking...the nuts and bolts of jobs in the timber industry and compares them to service jobs...
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County donors back Dancer.(Politics)(The ex-TV anchor draws funds from the local timber industry and Republican supporters in the race for secretary of state)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...gotten the greatest support from the timber industry. Individuals and companies with ties...said he's attracted support from the timber industry in part because, if elected, he would...said, is that in Lane County, the timber industry and its leaders are stalwart Republican...
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Timber industry awaits new deal. (bills pending in Congress will affect logging in Tongass National Forest) (company profile)
Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly
; Timber Industry Awaits New Deal For Keaton Gildersleeve...uncertainty that has plagued the Southeast timber industry for the past four years as Congress...slight to a devastating effect on the timber industry, depending on which version passes...
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RUSSIA: TIMBER INDUSTRY NEEDS $28.4 BILLION IN INVESTMENT.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; The investment requirement of the Russian timber industry has been set at US$28.4 billion over the next 12 years...Mitin, only US$540 million was invested in the Russian timber industry in 2001. Only 5.3 million tonnes of paper and carton...
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Changes cloud forestry's future. (government restrictions and environmental concern affect the timber industry)
Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly
; It has become common in the timber industry to refer to loggers as an endangered...Reflecting these developments, Alaska's timber industry repeatedly has made front-page news...issue for the success of Alaska's timber industry. He explains that current or anticipated...
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Norton helps raise funds for Feldkamp.(Politics)(The interior secretary attends a private reception at the Eugene Country Club)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Timber-industry heavyweights feted Interior Secretary...Norton reception signals that the timber industry believes it found its best hope yet...illustrated cozy relations between the timber industry and Norton, who oversees agencies...
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Been through this logging battle before.(Local Opinion)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...Congress scrambled to nullify it. The timber industry put forth a one-paragraph bill overriding...mature trees would not decline. The timber industry and its allied unions desperately...the hated even flow language, the timber industry had the chairman of the Forests Subcommittee...
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State offers help for timber industry jobs.(Timber)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly
; ...jobs. We are determined to get a long-term solution to the timber industry's supply problems by using U.S. Forest Service timber to...environmental groups have been trying for 25 years to put Alaska's timber industry out of business, but I'm not going to let that happen. Under...
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