“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
Forest Landowners
Association, Inc.
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.
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In-Depth Information
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 “Enormous
Wilderness Corridors Masquerading as Land Management Refinements”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 15, No. 1 (PRFA, Spring 2011)
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s
Strategic Plan for its 442 state forests comprising 786,000
acres outside the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves
focuses on ensuring connectivity for wildlife movement between
large “matrix blocks” of state forests
maintained as mature cover connected with wide, natural strips
of land with a high percentage of forest cover. This system
would enhance connectivity though deep forested areas from
Ontario to Georgia.
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 “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.
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- “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.
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 “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.
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 “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 New York Conference
on Private Property Rights (1999)
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- “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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