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Feb 21, 2020 · The forestry industry of today is more complex and sophisticated than ever. Twenty-first-century foresters rely on expertise from a variety of scientific disciplines including dendrology, hydrology, biology and geology to study silviculture, wildlife, soils, insects, plants, disease and tree physiology when creating their forest management plans.
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Mar 14, 2024 · In total, the U.S. forestry and forest products industry employ approximately 953,000 people, making this sector one of the most significant employers in U.S. manufacturing.
Jun 10, 2024 · In 1927, Harvard Forest purchased a grove of about 20 acres of old-growth white pines and hemlocks nestled within the more-than-13,000-acre state park. Eventually, we turned off the trail altogether. The topography became more challenging, with waves of boulder-strewn ridges crashing against each other.
- Global Primary Forest Loss remained High
- New Technologies Made It Easier to Monitor Forests…
- …But Biodiversity Monitoring Technology Lagged Behind
- Climate Change Battered Forest Ecosystems
- Forests and People Became Increasingly Intertwined
- REDD+ Experienced A Renaissance Despite A Rocky Start
- Commodities Became "De-Commodified"
- Restoration Pledges Proliferated, But Action Was Insufficient
- Indigenous Peoples Assert Their Forest Rights
- Political Environmental Leadership Declined
By Mikaela Weisse Despite international efforts, the loss of tropical primary forests persisted over the past decade. The three most recent years with available data (2016, 2017 and 2018) experienced the three highest rates of primary forest loss since the turn of the century. Primary forest loss saw a notable spike in 2016 and 2017, mainly linked ...
By Rod Taylor Innovations in remote sensing and cloud computing have made high-resolution global geospatial data available in user-friendly formats at low cost. It is now easier than ever to understand what is happening to forests and make informed decisions over their use and management. For example, Global Forest Watch, launched in 2014, made the...
By Laura Vary Common and beloved species have been disappearing at 100 times the natural background rate, with massive decreases in species ranging from roadside insects to songbirds to lemurs. But despite growing concern, our ability to monitor these changes and measure biodiversity losses consistently in time and space remain elusive. The kind of...
By Fred Stolle Forests are a critical buffer against climate change, absorbing one-third of the carbon we emit every year, maintaining stable rainfall patterns and moderating extreme temperatures. This climate guardian has been overtaxed over the past 10 years and is now suffering the consequences of a warming world. Fires have scorched degraded tr...
By Nancy Harris There are 800 million more people on the planet than a decade ago, and growing demands for food, fuel and fiber have triggered dramatic changes to forests worldwide. In the tropics, primary forests continue to decline. Secondary forests recovering from past clearing are now prominent features of tropical landscapes; many are integra...
By Frances Seymour A global agreement on forest conservation has been elusive since negotiations collapsed in the run-up to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. The broad consensus on REDD+(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, plus conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks), a UN framewor...
By Luiz Amaral Throughout the 20th century, many food ingredients have largely been traded in bulk, without any differentiation, and commercialized according to global prices. But the last decade saw the beginning of the "de-commodification" of commodities markets. In other words, once homogenous products are now being differentiated according to h...
By Sean DeWitt In response to widespread deforestation and land degradation across the world, countries and NGOs came together in 2011 to launch the Bonn Challenge, an effort to restore farms, forests and pasture by 2020. The New York Declaration on Forestsstrengthened that resolve. Over the next eight years, 62 countries committed to make more tha...
By Jessica Webb Indigenous peoples and local communities inhabit more than 50% of the world's land, and manage at least 17%of the carbon stored in forests. An expanding body of literature over these past 10 years provides evidence of the effectiveness of indigenous communities as forest stewards, leading to greater recognition that global conservat...
By Chip Barber The past decade saw the rise of populism in both developing and developed countries, and this was bad news for the world's forests and those who seek to defend them. Forests have suffered from populist efforts to delegitimize environmental science, demonize NGOs and limit access to information. Conserving forests and achieving sustai...
Jun 20, 2024 · Today the Biden-Harris Administration is taking new steps to conserve, restore, and expand our nation’s old growth forests by advancing a proposal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...
Apr 26, 2019 · WASHINGTON, DC—The United States forest products industry accounts for approximately four percent of the nation’s total manufacturing GDP, producing over $200 billion in products every year. To keep tabs on the condition and status of America’s forest resources over time, the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program compiles the official estimates for all public and private forest lands in ...
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Aug 28, 2023 · The 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment is now available. The assessment summarizes the latest research on the status, trends, and projected future of U.S. forests and renewable resources. It focuses on how socioeconomic and climatic change could affect forests, markets, disturbance, water, biodiversity, and outdoor recreation. Differing assumptions about population and economic growth ...
