A good part of the Fortune 500 is poised for new explorations in oil, gas, timber, tourism, gems, banking, infrastructure.
1. Robert E. Tedd) Turner* Lamont, Fla .1,800,000 acres in Colo., Fla., Ga., Kans., Nebr., N.M., Mont., Okla., S.C., S.D. Bison, farm, minerals, timber, tourism: $750 million.
The local economy relies mostly on timber and tourism, which cycles seasonally through snowmobiling, whitewater rafting, fishing and hunting.
There's a bar and steakhouse 15 miles away; shopping is 25 miles away in Custer proper, a mining, timber and tourism town.
But as the land use struggle ensues thousands of miles away, people who live here are also clearly divided over whether the forest is chiefly useful for timber, or tourism, or both in equal measure.
For example, forest resource utilization can be of different forms such as subsistence, commercial extraction of timber and NTFPs, tourism, education and research etc.
Today the principal industries are tourism, timber and agriculture.
The main economic activities are oil industry, tourism, timber extraction, and African palm oil.
The main economic and industrial activities are based on chemical and oil exports, commerce, agriculture (especially tropical fruit and palm oil), timber, fishing, and tourism.
However, especially in the case of some provisioning and cultural services, such as collecting non-timber forest products or tourism, information may inspire potential new users to seek such benefits from nature.
Causes of landscape change included regional population growth, tourism demands, timber harvest for local use, fire suppression, bark beetle attack, and fuels reduction activities.
