Until the 1980s, the major driver of Harney's prosperity was timber products, sourced from plentiful forests, including those on public land.
The conference brought together corporate executives, bankers and government ministers to discuss the benefits of healthy soils, fresh water supplies and plentiful forests, and to explore ways to create a framework to maintain them worldwide.
From Indonesia to Malaysia to Myanmar, many of the once plentiful forests of Southeast Asia are already gone, stripped legally or illegally, including in the low-lying lands here in Kalimantan, on the Indonesian side of Borneo.
Its real draw lies just north of here, where much of the once-walled medieval city is intact, its streets lined with striking maisons à colombage — "half-timbered" homes dating back to the 15th century, fronted by giant wooden lattices made from the region's once plentiful forests.
Many large species are still plentiful in forest or game reserves or in controlled-hunting areas.
Paper pulp is a valuable export as is cork from the country's plentiful cork oak forests.
This applies not only in areas with plentiful woodlands or forests, but also in more marginal island environments where limited native wood resources are available.
Contrastingly, in summer and early autumn when fodder was plentiful in the forests and when farmers were heavily engaged in agricultural works, cattle were mostly left freely grazing in the forests on their own.
In fact about 96% of the home is made of wood-based materials --biodegradable and plentinul in the forests of Austria.
The canyon is far drier than other parts of New Mexico located at similar latitudes and elevations, and it lacks the temperate coniferous forests plentiful to the east.
