Book Description
The effects of forest harvesting policies on timber-dependent communities go beyond simple economics. The papers presented address the issues from the viewpoints of government, the timber industry, and environmentalists.
Author : Dennis C. Le Master
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The effects of forest harvesting policies on timber-dependent communities go beyond simple economics. The papers presented address the issues from the viewpoints of government, the timber industry, and environmentalists.
Author : Catherine Woods Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Forest management
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Author : Catherine Woods Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Forest management
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Author : Robert G Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429714068
The contributors consider how social science perspectives can contribute to our understanding of communities and their conflicting choices regarding the allocation and use of forest, agriculture and other natural resources. The topics discussed include community stability, community adjustment to economic and technological change and the public's r
Author : Sussanne Maleki
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Forestry and community
ISBN :
For much of the last century, the connection between national forests and many rural forest communities, especially in the Pacific Northwest, was defined by timber-related employment. Assumptions about the economic dependence of forest communities on federal timber prompted the Forest Service to make community stability a matter of agency policy. But the relationship between forests and communities has changed, particularly over the last 25 years with declining timber harvests on federal land. Without question, declines in timber production and other resource-base industries have adversely affected rural forest communities, leaving some with few economic alternatives. Yet many communities once commonly referred to as S2timber dependentS3 have persisted despite the loss of an economic mainstay.
Author : Michael Hibbard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1996-07
Category :
ISBN : 0788171631
Collectively, the chapters in this exploratory study constitute a review of community economic development as a response in the Pacific Northwest to the globalization of the timber industry. The history of federal policies concerning forest communities & timber production is discussed, & recent social & economic changes that are profoundly affecting forest communities are examined. Case studies of new approaches to creating jobs & wealth in forest communities are presented as well as research into the link between economic development & social & political development. Charts & tables.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Agriculture
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Rural development
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Author : Jonathan Kusel
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1991
Category : California
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :
This Congressional report provides testimony addressing the following two House bills: HR 2389 which restores stability and predictability to the annual payments made to States and counties containing National Forest System lands and public domain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for use by the counties of the benefit of public schools, roads, and other purposes; and HR 1185 which modifies the requirements for paying Federal timber sale receipts. Prepared statements are provided from William N. Dennison, Supervisor, District 3, Plumas County, California; Mike Dombeck, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service; Robert E. Douglas, Tehema County Superintendent of Schools, Red Bluff, California; Bobby Green, Chairman, Lane County Board of Commissioners, Eugene, Oregon; and Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations. Complete texts of both bills are included.(GR)