The NJPB has and is continuing to experience rapid rural development and urbanization that are altering the types, frequency, and intensity of forest management, and are increasing forest fragmentation.
International efforts toward increasing sustainable forest management in developing countries have proven difficult, and the addition of reducing green house gas emissions adds another layer of complexity [5].
International efforts toward increasing sustainable forest management in developing countries have proven difficult, and the addition of reducing green house gas emissions adds another layer of complexity [ 5].
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In a written statement, Tom Partin, president of the American Forest Resource Council, cited Senator Wyden's "personal commitment to aggressively pursue increased federal forest management funding and provide needed oversight".
The first two seek to increase forest cover by planting or management techniques, while the third is for forested land that is at risk of conversion and meets the requirement of additionality.
Increased forest recovery and better land management are essential.
To obtain such large offsets in the United States would require a combination of afforesting up to one-third of cropland or pastureland, using the equivalent of about one-half of the gross annual forest growth for biomass energy, or implementing more intensive management to increase forest growth on one-third of forestland.
Conservation stakeholder groups highlight potential negative effects of an increasing intensity of forest management in the future which related to energy wood could foster changes in forest structure, e.g. due to an increased collection of harvesting residues (Germany, Norway).
Nevertheless, substantial gains in forest bioenergy mobilisation can only be achieved with an important increase in forest management intensity, causing a larger appropriation of forest net primary production (NPP).
