FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE NO. 24
24 JULY 2000

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INPUT: This week's input comes from Russell Brown, Bernard Debarbieux, Scott Miller, Ladislav Paule, Francis Roesch,  and Jim Stevenson. Thank you all for sharing your information!
HAVE YOU HEARD?  NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

AUSTRALIA NEWS (from Jim.Stevenson@affa.gov.au)

  1. The Standing Committee on Forestry through its Forest Health Committee has released a "Generic Incursion Management Plan" which is available at http://www.affa.gov.au/ffid/mcffa/mcffa/reports/forestry/gimp.pdf. The SCF is comprised of the Heads of the Australian Commonwealth, States, Territories and New Zealand forestry agencies, with the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics as observers.  The SCF Internet site is at: http://www.affa.gov.au/ffid/mcffa/scf/scf.html
  2. "Funding Exotic Incursion Management in the Forest Sector." One of the most difficult issues relating to the consideration of newly established incursions of exotic pests or pathogens where eradication is desirable and feasible, is that of appropriate cost sharing arrangements among beneficiaries for action programs and compensation.  In the forest sector, this is complicated by the wide spectrum of public and private benefit that could be involved.  Such benefits range from the purely commercial to environmental and conservation impacts on species and ecosystems. Cost sharing for incursion management has not been addressed in a systematic way for the forest sector in Australia.  The Forest Health Committee - delegated by the Standing Committee on Forestry (SCF) - therefore commissioned a report by the Centre for International Economics as a basis for informed debate. The report sets out key principles and an analytical framework for decision making for cost sharing for incursion management in the forest sector.  The Forest Health Committee, with the approval of SCF, is pleased to release the report for stakeholder discussion on this important issue. If anyone would like a copy, it's available through http://www.affa.gov.au/ffid/mcffa/mcffa/reports/forestry/funding.html  or http://www.affa.gov.au/ffid/mcffa/mcffa/reports/forestry/funding.rtf. Comments on the discussion paper should be sent to: Secretariat, Standing Committee on Forestry, c/- GPO Box 858, Canberra  ACT  2601 Australia. mailto:scf@affa.gov.au.  It is out for comment until Friday 29th September 2000.
If you have any difficulty with either of the above two sites, send an e-mail to  mailto:scf@affa.gov.au, where we can either e-mail you a copy or send one through the mail.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOREST GENETICS - Forest Genetics publishes original papers aimed at recent advances in forest genetics, in a broad sense including molecular and biochemical genetics, cytogenetics, population genetics, evolution genetics and ecological genetics and conservation of genetic resources. Though tree species have been the main subject of investigation in the fields of forest genetics and breeding studies, the genetic studies of forest organisms (other plants, animals, including microorganisms) and the breeding of forest plants are not excluded.  For more information, see: http://www.tuzvo.sk/~paule/

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1-2 August 2000. Identifying plants to classify forest habitat. Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA. Contact: Mary Ann Hellman. Tel: +1-612-624-7222. Fax: +1-612-625-5212. Email: mhellman@forestry.umn.edu.

7-12 August 2000. XXI IUFRO World Congress 2000. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Contact: IUFRO Congress Organizing Committee, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong 52109, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fax: +60-363-67753. Email: iufroxxi@frim.gov.my. URL: http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/congress/

17-22 August 2000. World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development. Kananaskis Village, Canada. Contact: Germain Dufour, Society for World Sustainable Development, Suite 308, 920-9 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2T9, Canada. Email: gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com.

7-9 September 2000. Models for the sustainable management of temperate plantation forest. Bordeaux, France. Contact: Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée, Domaine de de l'hermitage, BP 45, 33611 Gaznet CEDEX, France. Tel: +33-5-57-97-90-61. Fax: +33-5-56-68-02-23. Email: aquitaine@iefc.net. URL: www.iefc.net.

11-13 September 2000. International symposium on national recreation surveys and assessments. Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Contact: Tuija Sievänen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, Unionkatu 40 A, FIN-00170, Helsinki, Finland. Fax: +358-9-85705717. Email: tuija.sievanena@metla.fi.

24-28 September 2000. Methodology of forest insect and disease survey in Central Europe. Busteni, Romania. Contact: Vasile Mihalciuc, Danut Chira, Forest Research Station, Str. Closca, no. 13, 2200-Brasov, Romania. Tel: +0040-68-419936. Fax: +0040-68-415338. Email: icasbv@logicnet.ro

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