Archive for June, 2009

Annotated Bibliography

The Coalition Partners publish a bibliography of references about working forests, farms and ranches.  The references are accessible on-line without the need for proprietary software.  The collection  organizes the materials by major categories:  General Background, Land Conversion Studies, Fiscal Impacts of Working Lands Conversion, and Market Incentives.   Most references include a brief comment or description.

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Planning in the West

[ June 17, 2009 to June 18, 2009. ]  
 NewWest.Net is proud to announce the 1st annual Planning in the West conference, produced in partnership with Boise State University. Featuring leading planners, policy-makers, architects, developers, and landscape designers from around the Rockies, this conference aims to track planning and development trends, showcase best practices, and understand how thoughtful and place-inspired planning can help us [...]


2009 National Silviculture Workshop

[ June 15, 2009 to June 18, 2009. ]   

The 2009 National Silviculture Workshop will convene at the Doubletree Riverside.   The workshop theme this year is Integrated Management of Carbon Sequestration and  Biomass Utilization Opportunities in a Changing Climate.  In addition to the workshop program, a pre-conference field trip will visit the Warm Lake Fires of 2007 – an area that received silvicultural treatments to reduce fuel loads.  [...]


Ecosystem Markets: Making Them Work

[ June 18, 2009 to June 19, 2009. ]  

Using markets to protect and restore ecosystems – and the many services they provide – is gradually becoming a reality. But what are the critical elements for success, what progress has been made, what still needs to be done, and what are the remaining challenges? Experts, innovators, and hands-on users of these evolving market models [...]