This is all Forest Service land.

Issues relating to table 5.A Forest land

The forestland shall be the land covered by forest, land under the forest infrastructure facilities, as well as adjacent overflowing clearings, marshes and glades.

Out of the total area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,113,000 hectares), forests and forest land account for 53 per cent (2,700,770 hectares or 0.71 hectares of forest and forest land per capita).

Figure 11 Proportion of land area covered by forest (2004)

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

For example, pressures to use forest land for agriculture and grazing and to exploit forest products at an unsustainable level may be rooted in poverty and in some places, owners may face pressures to sell forest land for building development.

With regard to community land and forest rights, forest management should be devolved to community control community land and forest ownership should be legalized criteria and indicators for certification should be strengthened and markets should be designed that recognize local rights.

Large quantities of land, forest and farms are being cut and turned into charcoal.

The reports raise the issue of pastoral land rights from the point of view of access to forest and pastoral land.

In English land law, it was illegal to assart any part of a royal forest.

Here's Danny Hillis in the midst of a bristlecone pine forest on Long Now land.

Specifically, the Forestry Act (1991) recognizes customary landowner rights to ownership of land and forest produce and rights to use of the land.

FAO National Forest Assessments (NFA) and Integrated Land Use Assessments (ILUA), which is a process to collect and manage country wide forest resource, socioeconomic and environmental information.

State owned forests and forest land is 81 per cent and private owned is 19 per cent.

National data on land use and forest cover were often outdated or not in a suitable format.

This is all Forest Service land. If you go up on top of those cliffs, that's some of the Long Now land in those trees.

Productive functions of forest resources. At the global level, the capacity of forests and the amount of land suitable for forest restoration is theoretically sufficient to meet the growing demand for forest products in the near to mid term.

The issue of land rights for those in forest areas was one the Government took very seriously, and a comprehensive land reform exercise was under way.

Forest cover declined from 70 of the country's total land area in 1900 to about 18.3 in 1999.

Forest landscape restoration aims to restore ecological integrity and improve the productivity and economic value of degraded land.

They relate to the sectors of agriculture, livestock raising, water resources, sanitation, land management, forest protection, energy, etc.

The underlying causes of deforestation include the demand on forest land for agriculture, grazing and human settlements the growing demand for timber and forest products and a range of biotic and abiotic factors that adversely affect forest health and vitality.

The national and regional case studies from Asia emphasize that customary systems of land tenure and forest management have largely been displaced by colonial expansion and more recent forest and land policies, and in many countries this has still not been rectified.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

These experiments are conducted in sectors such as agriculture, stockbreeding, water resources, sanitation, land management, forest protection and energy.

A seminar on forest fire prevention, land use and population was held in Greece in October and November 1991.

Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources

(j) Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources

Of that total, 3,374,328 hectares were forest concessions, 973,101 hectares were economic land concessions and 268,316 hectares were mining concessions.

Develop or clarify land use and forest policies, with the involvement of all stakeholders, particularly those at the local level.

Forest

Forest

Forest Resources in the Tropical World (forest areas)

Moreover, investing in forest conservation and sustainable land use is one of the most cost effective means of mitigating climate change.

As a result of our conservation efforts, Bhutan has successfully maintained 72.5 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

Rights to indigenous land, forest and natural resources should be clearly identified in poverty reduction strategy papers documents, the role of indigenous peoples should be specified and the control by indigenous peoples over traditional land, forest, natural resources and decisions on the type of development should be acknowledged.

Almost all Parties stressed that deforestation was an important issue in their countries and provided information on their forest management practices reforestation, exploitation rules, conservation practices, protected areas, territorial land, national parks and forest reserves.

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

Mount Forest

Forest area

A forest.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Overall, traditional forest related knowledge in forest management is not recognized on an equal footing with scientific forest knowledge.