Forest health treatments glossary and government resources

Forest health treatments : the application of techniques to influence pest orbeneficial organism populations, mitigate damage, or reduce the risk of future damage toforest stands. Treatments can be either proactive (for example, spacing trees to reducerisk of attack by bark beetles) or reactive (for example, spraying insecticides to treatoutbreaks of gypsy moth).

[Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]

Lakeview District Environmental Assessments
Upper Spencer Forest Health Treatments Enivronmental Assessment. Gerber Watershed

Renewable Resources Forest Health and Biomass Energy
Designing Forest Health Treatments. Economic Issues and Forest Health Treatment.

Committee on Resources-Index
...structural risk mitigation, and landscape level forest health treatments.

Committee on Resources-Index
Restoration based forest health treatments are proving to be so beneficial in

Testimony of Bob Bennett, State Director, Wyoming, Bureau of Land ...
In FY 2004, we expect to offer contracts for forest health treatments and

DRAFT 070104, 6:01pm
Since FY 2000, over $21 million in receipts from salvage timber sales and

Committee Reports
The quality of treatments must be improved to accomplish long-term fire risk

Committee Reports
45 days on all petitions received from the public (including industry) to

IM-OR-98-094-Forest Ecosystem Health and Restoration Fund (5900)
...salvage timber sales and forest health treatments throughout the West.

IM 2003-035, Implementing the President=s Healthy Forests ...
...forest health treatments as called for in the President=s Initiative.

Georgetown Vegetation Management, Philipsburg Ranger District ...
The Forest Service proposes fuel reduction and forest health treatments by

BLM-Bureau of Land Management-Utah-News Release
...program to support forest health treatments and increased timber production.

Background/setting
...from laws that have tied the Forest Service up in legal and bureaucratic knots

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