Policies for climate mitigation on land rarely acknowledge biophysical factors, such as reflectivity, evaporation, and surface roughness. Yet such factors can alter temperatures much more than carbon sequestration does, and often in a conflicting way. We outline a framework for examining biophysical factors in mitigation policies and provide some best-practice recommendations based on that fram...

Long-term research should play a crucial role in addressing grand challenges in environmental stewardship. We examine the efforts of five Long Term Ecological Research Network sites to enhance policy, management, and conservation decisions for forest ecosystems. In these case studies, we explore the approaches used to inform policy on atmospheric deposition, public land management, land conserv...

Wildland–Urban interface forest (WUIF) entrepreneurs are finding a niche in fragmenting forests. Most successful entrepreneurs are either scaling down from their forestry and logging backgrounds or scaling up from green industry. They are skilled in some aspects of working with WUIF owners but often need additional tools, including people and marketing skills, business plans based on hourly fee...

A case-control study involving interviews with 321 male patients with lung cancer and 434 controls, or their next of kin, was undertaken to identify reasons for the high lung cancer mortality along the northeast coast of Florida. In Duval county (Jacksonville), the age-adjusted rate for lung cancer, 1970-1975, among white males was the highest of all urban counties in the United States. Increas...

Modeling forest and range land development in rural locations, with examples from eastern Oregon Jeffrey D. Kline a,∗, Alissa Moses b, Gary J. Lettman b, David L. Azuma c a USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, 2600 State Street Salem, OR 97310, USA c USDA For...

The trade relationship between small-scale growers and processing companies often plays an important role in determining the nature and extent of benefi ts derived from commercial forestry, and the distribution of these benefi ts. Many strategies are used by individual small-scale growers, village communities, companies and government agencies to form partnerships to undertake commercial forest...

1 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2 Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 3 Department of Plant Sciences, Tree Protect...

1 Natural Resources Program, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 2 Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 3 Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,...

Xiao-Yi Wang, Zhong-Qi Yang , , Juli R. Gould, Hui Wu and Jian-Hai Ma The Key Laboratory of Forest Protection, State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture, Otis ANGB, MA 02542 5008, USA Forestry Bureau of Sanming City in Fu...

Bird–forestry relationships have been the subject of research and conservation initiatives for decades, but there are few reviews resulting recommendations use by forest managers. We define “bird-friendly forestry” as management that applies from seeking to reconcile logging with bird in natural forests used timber production. reviewed relevant studies synthesize 10 principles bird-friendly for...