“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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 "The Color Green: Sheriffs Challenge U.S.
Forest Service Road Closings in Northern California," by
Charles W. Frank, Journalist, Musician, Builder and Landscaper,
Forks, Washington. Address to the Sixteenth Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Latham, N. Y. October 20, 2012
(Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.)
Northern California sheriffs are now set on stopping the federal
government because of its limited land use policies and Forest
Service road closures. Because the West is highly forested, roads
need to remain open and maintained, not only for public use and
recreation, but also for greater access to fight forest fires,
which are getting out of control. The sheriffs of northern California
are coming to agreement, also, that the underbrush in forested
lands needs to be cut away and the thinning of trees needs to
be accomplished to prevent massive forest fires which continue
to plague the West.
Resolution
#2011- - Board of Supervisors of Apache County, Arizona, Dec.
6. 2011
Declaring the exclusive authority of Apache County, Arizona over
certain roads, rights-of-way and routes of travel within the
boundaries of apache county and located on certain lands also
managed by the United States Forest Service or Bureau of Land
Management
Resolution
- # 2011-14 - Board of Supervisors of Apache County, Arizona,
October 18, 2011
Declaring an emergency in apache County, Arizona due to the Wallow
fire, degraded forest conditions, imminent threat from catastrophic
fires and extreme drought
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- “Conservation
Easements: Letter to a Wisconsin Property Owner”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America,
Inc., July 31, 2012
In response to a letter from a Wisconsin property owner about
the State of Wisconsin’s announced plan to acquire
conservation easements on 67,346 forest acres to become the Brule-St.
Croix Legacy Forest, from Lyme St. Croix Forest Company, this
letter gives some broad outlines of areas where the conservation
easement acquisition should be given critical scrutiny, and how
to obtain useful 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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