FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE

PUBLICATIONS

Glastra, R. (ed.) 1999. Cut and run: Illegal logging and timber trade in the
tropics. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. xv + 112 pp.

Palo, Matti; Uusivuori, Jussi (eds.).  1999. World forests, society and environment. Vol. 1. 404 p. ISBN 0-7923-5595-4 (PB). ISSN 0785-8388. I know I posted this note before, but I just got my copy of the Volume 1. It is well worth having if you are interested in global forestry. For price contact: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Email: kluwer@wkap.com.  URL: http://www.wkap.com.

MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES

20 April 1999. Forest management for migratory and resident birds - Coastal Plain. New Bern, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Educational Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. Email: barnes@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu.  URL: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/.

27-28 April 1999. Laws and regulations affecting forestry practices. Clinton, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Educational Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. Email: barnes@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu.  URL: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/.

6 May 1999. Forest management for migratory and resident birds - Piedmont. Bahama, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Educational Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. Email: barnes@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu.  URL: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/.

11-12 May 1999. Silviculture for intensively managed plantations. Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Educational Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. Email: barnes@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu.  URL: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/.

20-22 May 1999. ASTURFORESTA'99. Monte Armayán, Spain.  Contact: Antonio Gonzalo Pérez, Asturforesta'99, Centro de Promoción Empresarial de la Curiscada
33.877 TINEO - ASTURIAS - ESPAÑA. Tel.: 34 - 98 - 580 19 76/08 09
Fax.: 34 - 98 - 580 16 94. e-mail: agtin@futurnet.es. URL: http://www.futurnet.es/tineoferia/

24-28 May 1999. Delineation of Piedmont and Coastal Plain jurisdictional wetlands. Raleigh and Bern, North Carolina, USA. Contact: Jennifer Barnes, NCSU Forestry Educational Outreach Program, Box 8003, Raleigh, NC 27695-8003 USA. Tel: +1-919-515-3184. Fax: +1-919-515-6883. Email: barnes@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu.  URL: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/.

12-16 July 1999. Workshop on Off-forest Tree Resources of Africa. Arusha, Tanzania. This re-posting. An updated program and registration information may be found at http://home.att.net/~gklund/Arusha.html or by contacting: Roger Malimbwi, Faculty of Forestry, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3009 CHUO KIKUU, MOROGORO, TANZANIA. Tel/Fax: 255-56-4648. Email: forestry@suanet.ac.tz or Forestry.econ@twiga.com or August B. Temu, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), P.O. Box 30677, NAIROBI, KENYA. Tel: 254 2 521450 Fax: 254 2 521001. Email: a.temu@cgiar.org

6-7 August 1999. The Ecological Society of America workshop on "Using the Proposed National Standards for the Floristic Levels of Vegetation Classification in the United States: Associations and Alliances." Spokane, Washington, USA.
For background information see "An Initiative for a Standardized Classification of Vegetation in the United States" http://esa.sdsc.edu/vegwebpg.htm.  Information about the ESA Annual Meeting (including this workshop) and on-line
registration is available on our web site at http://esa.sdsc.edu/am99info.htm or contact: ESA Annual Meeting, Department 0666, Washington, D.C. 20073 USA. Fax: +1-202-833-8775. Phone: +1-202- 833-8773. Email: esahq@esa.org .

15-17 September 1999. Expert systems and information management. IUFRO Working Unit 4.11.03. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. For further information contact:  Daniel L. Schmoldt, USDA Forest Service, Brooks Forest Products Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0503 USA. Tel: +1 540.231.4674. (Fax 8868). Email: schmoldt@vt.edu. See: http://128.173.241.12/meetings/AI_Workshop/sept99.html or http://www.srs4702.forprod.vt.edu/meetings/AI_Workshop/sept99.html

1-3 October 1999. Multipurpose trees. Chandigarh, India. IUFRO 4.02. Contact: Dr. R.K. Kohli, Dept. of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014 India. Fax: +91-172-541409. Tel: +91-172-541441 ext. 1228. Email: pulib@puniv.chd.nic.in

LINKS

For information on non-wood forest products check out:
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FORESTRY/NWFP/NONWOOD.HTM
NTFP-Biocultural-Digest -  http://www.anthrotech.com/ice/ntfp/digest/
NTFP Bulletin Board  - http://www.anthrotech.com/ice/ntfp/messboard/

Jeff Waldon passes on this link - "A very interesting report entitled "PASSING THE BUCK:  A Comparison of State Fish and Wildlife Agency Funding and the Economic Value of Wildlife-Associated Recreation"  may be found at
http://www.iwla.org/conserv/reports/passbuck.html"


As always - please share as appropriate. Thanks, Gyde

H. Gyde Lund

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