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Loon Echo Land Trust, Bridgton, Maine
Sebago Lake region of Maine retains it’s natural beauty, quiet charm and open spaces for wildlife habitat, water quality, working farms and forests, and public recreation. Loon Echo Land Trust has helped protect 3,307 acres of land in this special area. We welcome all those who share our passion for protecting land and ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
At the same time, some 15 percent of these interlopers have become invaders, causing widespread problems that can prove serious and exceedingly costly. They can devastate farms and forests, impede waterways, foul lakes and ponds, affect human health, and invade natural areas and ...
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About NPC: Mission Statement, Board of Directors and Professional Staff
Water resources are valued and protected. Development and growth in the region are balanced with conservation. Core Values of the Conservancy Open Space We support the conservation of working farms and forests ...
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American Farmland Trust: Agriculture and the Environment
"Creating a healthy, naturally balanced environment is good for us and for our productivity and profitability. And we think it's the right thing." -Jim Crawford Pennsylvania Vegetable Farmer Agriculture and ... greener Agriculture's role in climate change A low-carbon economy Harnessing farms and forests to offset carbon The land use connection Better planning for a ...
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American Farmland Trust - The Magazine of American Farmland Trust - Winter 2008 - Farms Grow Green
One recent report, Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy, by Duke ... would have the incentive to participate that farms and forests could provide nearly the total required cut in emissions. But right now, Jim Andrew and other farmers are receiving only about $5 ...
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What Challenges Do Our Forests Face?
Portland area grew 17% and continues to grow rapidly today. Housing is expensive and hard to find. Farms and forests are converted into residential and commercial development almost overnight; land use changes increased by 108% in the fifteen years between 1982 and 1997 ...
mainetreefoundation.org
Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE)
Tree Farms and Norwegian Afforestation Group expect to make profits from these plantations by selling timber and wood and in the future, through sale of ... able to use the ‘carbon forests’ for reducing emissions at home. Fast growing trees such as pines and especially eucalyptus need huge amounts of water to grow and hence such plantations can ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: FOREST COVER - Earth Policy Institute Resources on Forests
Thriving forests regulate the water cycle and stabilize soils. Forests also help moderate climate by soaking up and storing carbon dioxide. In addition to these ecosystem services, forests provide habitat for diverse flora and ... loss occurred in the last two centuries as land was cleared to make way for farms and to meet demand for wood. Over the last five years, the world suffered a ...
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Hooray Humans: the bible and our relationship with earth and
animals
Cities can only exist if there to support them are permanent arable farms and stock farms (which are nothing to do with nomadic pastoralism, but are just another way of ... farming has done it. Not only has it caused the disappearance of forests and prairies and other kinds of natural landscapes, and not only has it allowed us - creatures that began as rare predators ...
www.eco-action.org
Forests: rain forests, losing rainforest, Iwokrama project
Now, more than 50% of the rainforest has been destroyed by population growth, industrial development, agriculture, farms and extraction of petroleum. We must preserve the rest. Ricardo Quintana Vellejo, Mexico and Peris Siamanta Memus, Kenya The Iwokrama Institute in Guyana is training people locally and internationally to utilise forests ...
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