Archive for January, 2010
Outreach – Gem County
[ February 22, 2010; 10:00 am; ] Working Lands outreach presentation scheduled for February 22 to the Gem County Planning Commission
Outreach – Nampa Lions
[ February 9, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Working Lands outreach presentation scheduled for the Nampa Lions Club.
Outreach – Nampa Rotary
[ February 2, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Working Lands outreach presentation scheduled for the Nampa Rotary
Climate Change, Bioenergy, and Sustaining the Forests of Idaho and Montana
[ March 3, 2010 to March 4, 2010. ] The Society of American Foresters and partners have organized a two day conference in Boise on March 3-4, 2010. The second in a conference series , the discussions will review current forest conditions, the forest restoration need, the industry role to attain restoration goals on the landscape, and the social license to practice forest management [...]
Homes on the Edge – A Burning Question
Wildland fire suppression costs consume $3 billion dollars from the federal budget. A primary factor that contributes to the increased costs is the protection of private property in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Headwaters Economics, a non-profit organization, reviewed the factors contributing to higher costs, and concluded that existing policy does not address the expansion [...]
Having Lots to Learn
Prior to the real estate bubble, landowners and developers subdivided private working lands. The speculative housing market drove real estate prices to values many multiples greater than values for forest, farm and ranch production. The bubble residue left a pattern on the landscape of premature subdivisions – a configuration of building sites with no one [...]
Housing Unit Growth by County: 2000-2008
Change in Housing Units
Residential housing increased within Idaho during the eight year period 2000-2008. The period covered the residential real estate boom and the beginning of the housing bubble; the total housing count increased by 110,000 units. The Bureau of Census reports the distribution of the new homes across the state, at the [...]
Sustaining Utah’s Agriculture
Representative Jack Draxler (Logan, Utah) proposes a fund that will finance conservation easements on private land. In the past 10 years, the state of Utah lost 500,000 acres of farms and ranches. To slow the conversion, the bill proposes an Agriculture Sustainability Investment Fund. If passed, the legislation will reallocate funds generated from an existing [...]
Newsletter Archive 2010
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Wyoming Trust Allocates $4.8 Million
The Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust Board approved projects totaling $4.8 million. The current round of applications included acquisition of conservation easements, treatment of beetle infested forests, and watershed restoration projects. The legislature established the fund in 2005, and over $18 million of projects benefited from the trust. The Trust Fund seeks matching dollars, [...]
