New hope for forest communities.
Across the country, "practioner" groups are finding ways for people and forest to coexist in relationship that sustain both. Readers who follow the national forest controversy have come to accept a certain plot and cast of characters. On one side stands the "environmentalists," representing national organizations and...

Tree integration in homestead farms in southeast Nigeria: propositions and evidence.
Introduction The definition and characterization of forest management has changed since the early 1980s. There has been significant progress in the development and testing of new paradigms and interpretation of forest management principles. The result has been the acknowledgement of the significant role of community involvement in...

An alluring course for Trinidad's wetlands.
A national park in the Nariva Swamp could stimulate ecotourism and improve life for villagers in Kernahan The storm struck as I was walking home to Kernahan, late one evening last fall. A grey and dirty apron of water hung beneath billowing folds of dark blue clouds, far...

A watershed issue: the role of streamflow protection in Northwest river basin management.
I. INTRODUCTION The recent crash of salmon, steelhead, and trout populations has drawn attention to the altered state of Northwest rivers. Columbia Basin salmon runs once numbered perhaps sixteen million fish; today, they hang by a thread.(1) The issue of how to save the salmon has become...

Geographical dossier: at the end of May, a crucial meeting will decide the fate of the world's whales.
... so why do they want to continue the hunt? * In 1986, with whale populations pushed to the brink of extinction, the IWC called a halt to commercial whaling * Since then, Japan, Norway and Iceland have killed more than 26,000 whales ...

People and nature: where we've been, where we need to go; A collection of essays.
AMERICAN FORESTS' HISTORY HAS LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT "We need to find a new framework for working with other groups--businesspeople, labor unions, politicians. We need to learn new tactics and build strategic partnerships. It worked a century ago. It can work today." In 1875, about...

Seven myths of Northwest water law and associated stories.
In some respects, the Pacific Northwest as a region has been defined by what it is not: it is not as arid as the intermountain West.(1) But it is a mistake to think that water in the Northwest is not a scarce resource, subject to increasing demands for a...

Valuing nature: economic analysis and public land management, 1975-2000.
More federal environmental laws were passed in the 1970s than in any previous decade of American history. It amounted to a complete rewrite of the statutory foundations of U.S. environmental management and policy. The Clean Air Act (1970) and the Clean Water Act (1972) are the best known, but...

Business eras will dominate the new millennium. (USA Tomorrow).
WAVES OF ONCOMING activity that will dominate the advanced economies over the new millennium can be clearly foreseen. This succession of economic "mainsprings" defines new growth sectors and declining ones, suggests impending investment opportunities and dead ends, and pinpoints where the best jobs and livelihoods will be. Preparation for...

A minimizing cost of transport gabage in Nonsung District Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.
INTRODUCTION The activity that happen in the every day life of majority human often is born remainder inventory uses and don't be required and touch abandon the garbage which will cause a problem builds the environment goes up a lot of such as the source of water...