Nowadays, Christmas tree farmers typically choose seed from a specialist, who ships it directly to a forestry corporation like Weyerhaeuser.
Over the next dozen years or so, he was criticized by editorial boards and Oregonians for several of the causes he supported, including backing the forestry corporation, Weyerhaeuser in its hostile takeover of Oregon's Willamette Industries and his advocacy for a private investment firm in its attempt to take over Portland General Electric, a local utility company.
In 2012, the Haida gained control over the region's main tree-farm license, which has been controlled by large forestry corporations for decades.
According to Carbone, occupation of appropriated land now typically in the hands of large forestry corporations or the descendants of largely Northern European immigrants brought over by the state to "colonize" the region at the turn of the century—is the only viable option to allow Mapuche groups to rise out of poverty and return to a traditional way of life.
Concerns about fraud among Chinese companies listed in North America gained more traction on June 2nd, when a short-seller of that name accused Sino-Forest Corporation, a Toronto-listed forestry firm, of inflating its assets, among other things.
For me, real independence would mean liberation, finally, from a feudal system in which more than half of Scotland is owned by fewer than 500 people and where, last year, the government paid out £663,695,661 in agricultural, forestry and food-processing subsidies, much of it to rich individuals and corporations.
But, he says since this case happened just before the Conservative government slashed the budget for the federal fisheries department, and severely cut its funding in 2012, it shows just how important it is that the federal government oversees forestry in the country, as well as any deals between First Nations and corporations.
The Brascan Corporation, which owns stakes in some of Canada's biggest property, mining and forestry companies, said today that it had agreed to buy a hydroelectric transmission system in Maine from Great Northern Paper for $156.6 million.
On 8 September, NEON Inc., the nonprofit that manages the project, fired CEO Russ Lea, a former forestry professor and university administrator, after the head of NSF's biology directorate, James Olds, ordered the corporation to correct "deficiencies in leadership".
But the effect of putting so much extra woodland on the open market in the next few years is expected to lead to a rush of corporations and wealthy people taking advantage of the tax sweeteners that already exist for forestry owners, says accountant Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research LLP and an adviser to the TUC and Tax Justice Network.
Last year a nonprofit corporation called Genome Canada was formed to develop a national genomics initiative that would span agriculture, health, forestry, fisheries, and the environment (Science, 10 March 2000, p. 1732).
