Sentence examples for productive forest from inspiring English sources

For example, in Fennoscandia, there is a key trade-off between biodiversity and wood products, which are extracted on approximately 95%% of the productive forest land and is the main reason why many forest-dwelling species need a green infrastructure (Gärdenfors 2010).

One challenge for those investors today is to decide whether to keep obtaining high rates of return on their forest investments assuming essentially no land costs--sunk costs from previous investments--or whether to sell their productive forest lands at high prices and to be converted to agriculture crop production.

The productive forest industry is concentrated along the Agusan's swampy middle course.

About 95 percent of the productive forest types of Finland and the Scandinavian countries have been harvested at least once.

Productive forest types occupy warmer, south-facing slopes and river terraces, and less productive dwarf or sparse forest occupies the north-facing and basin permafrost sites.

"If it gets a little warmer, you could talk about a productive forest with enough wood for logs," Mr. Hoeg said.

Thus, productive forests often are restricted to portions of the landscape where soil material has been deposited by glaciers.

Although less than one-twentieth of Norway's total area is agricultural land, productive forests constitute more than one-third of the total area.

"Pennsylvania has some of the most productive forests in the world, but we can't get them to regenerate," Dr. Alt added.

Will Hodgman, Tasmania's premier, said: "For more than 30 years, environmentalists, with the help of Labor and the Greens, have progressively locked up hectare after hectare of productive forests, destroying businesses and jobs, regional communities and livelihoods.

Graubünden, (German), French Grisons, Italian Grigioni, Romansh Grishun, largest and most easterly canton of Switzerland; it has an area of 2,743 square miles (7,105 square km), of which two-thirds is classed as productive (forests covering one-fifth of the total).