A new report indicates that the White River National Forest directly and indirectly generates 22,230 jobs and produces a $1.59-billion contribution to the economy of central Colorado, including Aspen ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State administrator and a faculty member in the College of Forest Resources are celebrating the January release of a co-authored, newly revised second edition of a ...

Forests are a key source of added-value public goods, such as timber. The benefits of forests, however, go beyond marketable produce and include environmental services, such as climate change ...

USDA Forest Service (FS) economists and their cooperators have developed a book that demonstrates how economic principles can be used effectively to analyze forest policy issues. "Forests in a Market ...

The discipline of forest economics, business and society investigates interconnections between forests, the economy and society. Research in the discipline develops solutions for a sustainable natural ...

For Changyou “Edwin” Sun, a passion for forest economics grew out of his desire to help the community as a whole. Sun grew up in a small village in China’s Hunan Province, surrounded by mountains and ...

Asheville, NC — Technology is changing every facet of the forest products market. That may mean fewer jobs in the future as the industry shifts to labor-saving technology, with the steepest declines ...

Forests have a critical role to play in capturing and storing carbon from the Earth's atmosphere -- but some models exaggerate their carbon removal potential by almost three-fold, according to a ...

Forests cover nearly 20% of Indiana, and approximately 85% is in private ownerships like farms and families. Less than 20% of those owners have a forest management plan to guide them in the ...

Forest elephant populations throughout Central and West Africa have declined from 700,000 to 100,000 animals over the past several decades, primarily due to poaching and habitat loss. In Central ...

NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s total forest cover was 7,13,789 sq km in 2021, reflecting an increase of 3.14 per cent over 2011 even as it remained as the tenth largest country by forest area in the world ...