Peasants were permitted to gather fuel, timber, and litter for use on their own properties and to pasture defined numbers of animals.
Every building was inspected in order to gather information about the timber structure.
Using spatially explicit landscape simulation experiments, we gather insights into how these large scale, multifaceted processes (fire risk, timber harvesting and the amount of protected area) influenced both the persistence of the threatened boreal caribou and the level of timber supply in the boreal forest of eastern Canada.
Hunters, pastoralists, and cultivators have all fired the land for centuries and have gathered wild foodstuffs, thatch timber for construction, and fuelwood from the volunteer (i.e., uncultivated or self-generating) vegetation.
It's that time of year again folks (it's actually even one day early!), so gather 'round for two spine-chilling tales of horror to rattle your bones and shiver your timbers!
Still, I gather, gather, gather.
To examine the value of statewide regulatory data for Massachusetts as a unique source of this critical information, we analyzed 17 years of timber harvest data gathered for regulatory purposes for a 168,000 ha forested landscape in Massachusetts that is the focus of concerted conservation planning and intensive study of landscape and ecosystem pattern and process.
Similarly, relevant information on timber prices by product size was gathered from available literature or personal contacts with colleagues in the timber sector.
Most datasets containing land use intensity information are available in aggregated form, because microdata (e.g. farm-level surveys, tax records) cannot be made available widely due to privacy issues, are difficult to interpret (e.g. individual forest inventory plots), are often not geocoded, or were only gathered for administrative units (e.g. timber harvests).
So we all helped feed the wolves some horse meat that smelled just divine, loaded timber for wood-burning stoves, and gathered round the campfire morning, noon, and night.
