Forest Health

NASF Letter: Healthy Forests Reserve Program interim final rule - August 15, 2006

smccreary — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400

August 15, 2006

Robin Heard
Acting Director
Easement Program Division
Natural Resources Conservation Service
P.O. Box 2890
Washington, DC 20013-2890

RE: Healthy Forests Reserve Program interim final rule

Dear Ms. Heard:

A Stewardship Handbook for Family Forest Ownerships

smccreary — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:08:34 -0400

Stewardship is the pursuit of a forest owner’s personal goals within a set of stewardship principles. Taken together, your goals with these principles, serve the overall and long-term health and vigor of your forest or woodlot. And because forests are living and ever-changing, stewardship is “a work in progress,” the sooner begun, the more regularly tended, the better the results.

A Stewardship Handbook for Family Forest Ownerships (August 2005)

smccreary — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0400

A Handbook for Planning, Managing and Protecting Your Woods, Your Investment and Your Environment

National Association of State Foresters Sustainable Forestry Implementation Committee

Principles and Guides for a Well-managed Forest

smccreary — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:51:34 -0500

A report by the NASF Sustainable Forest Management and Resource Management Committees - February 2003

NASF Resolution No. 1996-8: Forest Health

smccreary — Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:00:08 -0400

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

NASF Resolution No. 1995-5: Forest Inventory and Database Management Systems

smccreary — Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00:05 -0400

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

NASF Resolution No. 1991-2: Clearcutting Policy

smccreary — Mon, 16 Sep 1991 00:00:02 -0400

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

NASF Resolution No. 1991-1: Biological Diversity

smccreary — Mon, 16 Sep 1991 00:00:01 -0400

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