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Forest Action Plans
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Anonymous (not verified)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 4:00pm
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION: Forest Science & Health Committee; Southern Group of State Foresters
ISSUE OF CONCERN: Maintain maximum relevance and utility of the FIA program
BACKGROUND: A current and accurate forest inventory is a threshold requirement if we are to conserve and restore all of America's forests. The inventory must address the rapidly emerging issues of climate change, carbon, biomass, and land use change. But portions of the nation's forests are not being inventoried, funding is...
Anonymous (not verified)
Friday, September 19, 1997 - 12:00am
Approving the New Forest Health Policy Statement
Forest Health is a large and growing concern across the U.S. and the world. Natural and human caused stressors can reduce the resiliency, productivity, and value of forests if allowed to spread and worsen unchecked. The State Foresters are all engaged in the detection, monitoring, and suppression of forest health problems, and, as leaders in the forestry community, can help constituents define desired future conditions for their forests and move...
Anonymous (not verified)
Tuesday, September 17, 1996 - 12:00am
Relating to Forest Health
WHEREAS, the NASF recognizes there are serious forest health problems facing the nation; and
WHEREAS, comprehensive aggressive action has been lacking to address this problem; and
WHEREAS, the public has been lead to believe that salvage is the only forest health tool. Such confusion is not conducive to resolving our serious forest health problems; and
WHEREAS, the Forest Service has been drafting such a forest health policy since October, 1995 with extensive input...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, September 28, 1995 - 12:00am
A Resolution Concerning Forest Inventory and Analysis Database and Database Management Systems
WHEREAS: The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program contained within the Research Unit, U.S. Department, Forest Service periodically collects data on forest resources in partnership with the states, and
WHEREAS: The data provides essential information on the extent, health and condition of forests on all ownership within the United States, and
WHEREAS: This data is used to help frame forest...
Anonymous (not verified)
Monday, September 16, 1991 - 12:00am
CLEARCUTTING POLICY
WHEREAS: the USDA Forest Service is coming under increasing pressure to eliminate the clearcut harvest method as a silvicultural tool within the National Forest System; and
WHEREAS: clearcutting is a proven harvesting prescription based on years of research; and
WHEREAS: clearcutting is one of the preferred, and sometimes only, harvesting technique which promotes the successful establishment of a new forest for the future; and
WHEREAS: when properly prescribed by...
Anonymous (not verified)
Monday, September 16, 1991 - 12:00am
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
(retired by Resolution No. 2004-6)
WHEREAS: biological diversity is the variety of life and its processes, and includes the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the relationship between the communities and ecosystems in which they occur; and
WHEREAS: biological diversity is important to sustain the health of ecological systems to provide for the well-being of people, and for its own intrinsic value; and
WHEREAS: NASF member agencies manage...
Anonymous (not verified)
Monday, September 12, 1988 - 12:00am
FOREST HEALTH STRATEGY
WHEREAS, forest insect and disease outbreaks continue to cause significant growth loss and mortality in the Nation's forests, as well as causing unacceptably high impacts to recreation resources and increasing fire hazards; and
WHEREAS, the Nation's forest stands are becoming increasingly susceptible to insect and disease damage;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Association of State Foresters endorses a forest health strategy that includes:
incorporation...