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...

Abstract Forest Owners Organizations can help small- and medium-scale private landowners stay competitive by conducting sharing research development (R&D) activities. This study evaluated R&D needs for silvicultural operations to inform an strategy the cooperative. Individual group priorities were collected using Analytical Hierarchy Process via a web survey meeting. Consensus in was fo...

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals on a farm, ranch, or from their natural habitats (Executive Office of the President, 2002). About 2.1 million workers were employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing in the United States in 2004, making it one of ...

This paper present a .general .paradigm for the development of mixed. man .and robot systems for the .execution of industrial fieldwork operations. The theory covers both animate and .inanimate fieldwork systems and is based upon the idea of behaviour programmable physical.action units and modules. The paper gives examples .of the theory's use to model dynamic systems composed of individual sys...

Forest-based industries represent a major economic sector in Canada and account for a large proportion of its exports. Planning problems in forestry cover a wide scope of activities ranging from planting and harvesting to road building and transportation. Furthermore, in many of these activities, it is critical to pay attention to important environmental issues, as well as to company-specific g...

The human costs of unrestrained development on our traditional territory, whether in the form of massive hydroelectric development or irresponsible forestry operations, are no surprise for us. Diabetes has followed the destruction of our traditional way of life and the imposition of a welfare economy. Now we see that one in seven pregnant Cree women is sick with this disease, and our children a...

Research AOne-sidedMEWMAChart for HealthSurveillance Michael D. Joner Jr1,∗,†, William H. Woodall2, Marion R. Reynolds Jr3 and Ronald D. Fricker Jr4 1The Procter & Gamble Company, Mason, OH 45040, U.S.A. 2Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, U.S.A. 3Departments of Statistics and Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Un...

British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations, Cariboo Forest Region, Williams Lake, British Columbia V2G 4T1, Canada University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3R4, Canada c Tree-Ring Lab at UBC, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ...

Practices such as tree felling, pruning, logging and chipping wood can produce significant amount of particles that be inhaled by agricultural forestry workers, triggering an important risk to the health workers. Especially finest fractions dust, less than 4 µm in diameter (the respirable fraction) may cause respiratory dermal diseases, until developing nose sinus adenocancer. The aim this work...