While the environmental community seeks to limit
harvests of oldgrowth forests on public lands, the forest industry has actively pursued maintaining or even expanding current
harvest levels.
With nearly four more weeks for Mumm to complete picking grapes, McNeill reports Pinot Noir and Chardonnay yields similar to the 1999
harvest.
The trees chosen for
harvest, then and now, are not the biggest and greenest, but the less vigorous.
Nasdaq:RBOT), the leader in medical robotics, today announced the successful completion of more than 500 endoscopic internal mammary artery
harvest procedures with robotic assistance.
That means the methods they will employ throughout the production and
harvest process will vary.
Forest managers were rewarded for keeping
harvest levels up and expenses down.
By taking advantage of forecasts for the Pacific, farmers in Zimbabwe could try to predict the coming
harvests before actually planting, Cane's group writes in the July 21 Nature.
5 percent in 2004 while the value of the
harvests jumped by nearly 12 percent, the California Forest Products Commission reported today in its second annual report on the state of the industry.
The `A' stress scenario of cash flows reflects production declines of 40 percent from the initial
harvest schedule developed by Scotia and price declines of approximately 16 percent from price levels for the six month period ended June 30, 1992, (or approximately 40 percent from current price levels).
The Commission attributed the sharp decline in harvesting to two primary factors: a near-elimination of harvesting trees on government land and increasing regulatory red-tape that makes it harder and excessively expensive to responsibly
harvest trees on privately-owned lands.
Part of this trend is the result of increases in labor productivity, and part is due to lower timber
harvests unrelated to the protection of old-growth owl habitat.
DISNEY
HARVESTS YEAR-ROUND FOOD DRIVE FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA
