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Email Us “Finch, Pruyn & Co. is Sold to Connecticut Holding Company; Soon All 161,000 acres of Timber Land Go to The Nature Conservancy” - News Brief, PRFA, August 2007 January 30, 2003 Letter to the Healthy Forests Initiative Bush Admin. signs Memorandum of Understanding with The Nature Conservancy to Manage National Forests - Nov. 2001   See Also Additional Helpful Organizations Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, Inc. address Associated Industries of Vermont address National Hardwood Lumber Association address Northeast Regional Forest Foundation address Additional Resources The Evergreen Foundation Published Evergreen Magazine and Technology Perspectives related to forestry issues, supporting wise use of forest resources. address Forest Landowners Association, Inc. Protecting the rights of private landowners since 1941. address Websites Forest Landowners Association, Inc. Protecting the rights of private landowners since 1941. link

In-Depth Information “A Voice for Forest Landowners in Washington—Protecting Productive Private Property” - By Scott Jones, Executive Vice President, Forest Landowners Association, Atlanta, Ga.; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23, 2004) By partnering with organizations like the Forest Landowners Association, we can educate Congress about private property rights. Working together, we stopped regulations like TDML, which would have hurt forest management. We can eliminate the “death tax” and make incremental changes to the Endangered Species Act. “Are Forests Still Green After the Leaves Fall?” - By Nate Dickinson (PRFA, September 29, 2003) The new so-called “experts” in forestry are the radical environmentalists, under the rubric of “sustainable forestry.”  “Is the Sierra Club Believable?“ — By Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, September 21, 2002) The Sierra Club’s radical fund-raising letter misaccuses commercial logging of creating desolate moonscapes. On the other hand, the club fails to note the pivotal role that extreme wilderness policies played in the intensity of recent forest fires.The law established National Forests in 1890 to guarantee a future supply of timber, not to provide wilderness areas for the enjoyment of Sierra Clubbers. “New York State: Eliminate Timber Theft by Restricting Land Use” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 2002) A model law for environmental regulation of timber harvesting is a prime answer to timber theft, according to the report published last year by the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources. “Burning Issues-The Dangers of Government Forest Management” - By Robert H. Nelson, Ph. D., Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA 2000) A record of warnings by experts in the forestry profession going back a decade states that Western forests are a fire hazard waiting to happen. Instead of managing the 600 million acres of federally owned forests like a “theme park,” they should be handled professionally, to protect the environment and serve the people of the U.S. “Forest Land Easements—Freezing the Future” - William R. Sayre, Chairman, Forest Policy Task Force, Associated Industries of Vermont, Montpelier, Vt., from Proceedings of the Fourth Annual N.Y. Conf. on Private Property Rights (1999) “Effects of Local Ordinances on Forestry” — Gregory M. DeSylva, from Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA 1998) In spite of selective harvesting and monitoring logging jobs to see that the environment and private property are protected, this consulting forester found that the forest industry is still “given hell,” with lengthy permits with outrageous restrictions, excessive bonding, DEC-approved loggers, no-cut zones, and other problems.

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