Future Forests II:
Download the updated flyer here.
February 11-12, 2009
Ferndale Fairgrounds
Maintaining Healthy and Productive Working Forests on the North Coast
North Coast working forests provide a wealth of products and services
from a variety of high quality forest products to clear running water,
fish and wildlife habitat. Yet our working forests face an increasingly
difficult economic and regulatory environment. Together we may be
better able to identify regional strategies for supporting our timber
production lands, essential infrastructure and open space.
Future Forests II conference will:
- Provide an overview of current and future trends in the wood
products industry at the global, regional and local levels
- Examine various strategies for reducing costs and improving financial
returns from traditional forest products
- Evaluate the pros and cons of emerging efforts to provide incentives
and compensation to landowners who meet conservation objectives
on working landscapes
- Provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and identify
strategies that will best position the region to explore new markets,
maintain essential infrastructure and weather down‐turns in
traditional wood products markets.
Who Should Attend:
The conference is intended for landowners, policy makers,
regulatory agency representatives, foresters, forest manufacturing and
the conservation and open space community.
Sponsors:
Institute for Sustainable Forestry,
Buckeye Forest Project,
UC Cooperative Extension.
Redwood Coast Rural Action
The Forest Guild
For more information,
visit the Future Forests II webpage.
Registration Deadline: Feb 5th.
To register please visit:
http://cehumboldt.ucdavis.edu/
For information about the previous
Future Forests working session please visit our
Future Forests webpage.
ISF Press Release on Scopac/Palco Bankruptcy
Much of the current debate surrounding Pacific Lumber Company (PL) and Scotia Pacific’s (Scopac) recent bankruptcy filing is focused on the funds extracted from the company and environmental considerations in elements of its Headwaters deal.
Managing Scopac properties based on community forestry standards offers significant benefits in both economic and ecological terms:
- Increased late seral stage stand conditions from 12% to 54% of the overall acreage in the first 30 years, 100% in 60 years.
- $3 billion in long-term debt-free income over the second 30 years – double the long-term income and local economic impact of the Traditional Timber Management Model in the same period.
- Steady increases in forest inventories and productivity throughout 60+ years that will position Scopac properties to maximize their biological capacity to meet a significant proportion of California’s lumber needs on an economically and environmentally sustainable long-term basis.
- Steady increases in the provision of ecosystem services throughout 60+ years including carbon storage, water quality and in-stream and upslope wildlife habitat.
It’s time for efforts to resolve this dispute to focus on creating the financial mechanisms, policy instruments and ownership structures that will enable new owners and investors, committed to conservation values as well as long-term productivity, to make the necessary financial commitments.
ISF on Palco/Scopac Bankruptcy
Financing
Sustainability:
Maxxam's Scopac Timber and Timberland -- A Case in Point
A new study released by the non-profit Institute for
Sustainable Forestry (ISF) demonstrates the long-term
financial advantages of an ecologically-responsible “Community
Forest” management model. The study found that this
balanced, environmentally-sensitive approach to forestry
would generate $1.1 billion more income than traditional
industrial timber management over a 60-year period.
To read more or to download ISF's Financing Sustainability:
A Case in Point visit the Sustainable
Forest Council webpage.
ISF
Newforestry News:
Spring 2006 (html)
ISF
State of Sustainability Report
Report
Summary (10 page pdf - 40 kb)
Full
report (60 page pdf - 2 mb)
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The Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF)
was formed in 1991 to promote sustainable forest management
that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic,
and social well-being of forest based communities in the
Pacific Northwest.
For a brief summary of ISF's history follow
this link: What is ISF?
