Sentence examples for majority of forest from inspiring English sources

In his comments to the Senate subcommittee, Mr. Tidwell pointed out that while the Forest Service manages vast tracts of the West, private landowners control the majority of forest land in the United States.

The majority of forest degradation mapping methods available now are also focussed on single-sensor solutions.

According to a recent survey, majority of forest landowners are interested in continuous cover forest management (Kumela and Hänninen, 2011).

As a consequence, the majority of forest owners do not receive any income from timber and in some cases stumpage prices can even be negative.

This assumption was supported by recent BEFR studies (e.g., Zhang et al. 2012; Liang et al. 2015) in terms of biodiversity effects, and a majority of forest dynamics studies (e.g., Shugart 1984) in terms of basal area effects.

Majority of forest loss-gain dynamics is caused by shifting cultivation, while forest losses are most dramatic along the coast, where traditional and new land uses meet and land uses pressures are highest.

Therefore, forest resources, particularly the non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been established as an essential source of livelihood for the majority of forest-dependent communities among others.

In New Zealand, the majority of forests (56%%) are FSC certified (Forest Owners Association 2014), which requires an overall move away from herbicide use in forests (FSC 2013).

In 1950, the majority of forests in the study area were unlogged (>88%) and dominated by old conifers (⩾81 years of age), predominantly balsam fir and black spruce.

Despite extensive research investigating the productivity and impacts of different bioenergy feedstocks, relatively few studies have assessed the preferences of private landowners, who control the majority of forests in the eastern U.S., to harvest biomass for the bioenergy market.

Due to advances in forest management practices, increased nitrogen deposition, and reduced acidification by air pollution (sulphur dioxide) and also increasing temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations, the majority of forests in Europe are growing faster now than in the early twentieth century [2].