Support includes cut-rate grazing fees and timber concessions, as well as artificially cheap water.
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Those who specialize in commodities such as oil, palm and timber strongly benefited from rising demand.
It confines itself to resources like gas, nickel and timber, for which market prices exist.
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The flames, burning in steep terrain covered by dense brush and timber, were headed northward -- away from residences.
Corn stover, garden waste such as grass clippings, and offcuts from forestry and timber production are better bets, she reckons.
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Firpta taxes gains from foreign sales of assets including buildings, land, mines and timber, as well as stock in real-estate companies.
Tourism, their studies say, would bring more jobs than the paper and timber industries, both of which appear to be in retreat.
Mr. Van Devender is the head of timber companies including Southern Timber Ventures and Southeastern Timber Products, which manages timber investments and products.
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But it also produces substantial quantities of natural gas, industrial machinery, auto parts and timber and exports them to many different consumer markets.
However, as forests fulfill needs for food, fuel and timber, restoring them can benefit communities as well as the environment, the organization said.
The province now boasts more than 5, 000 native-owned businesses, some of them joint-ventures, ranging from pipeline construction and timber production to hotels and boat-building.
Since winter is my enemy, I've installed a thinner wire in a small barn a "barnette" that I built single-handedly using 18th-century tools and timber-framing traditions.
Meanwhile, the new government says it will sign long-term contracts with Norway's power-intensive light-metals and timber industries to help keep them in world business.
Stretching from Macon to the Florida Panhandle, it is the second-leading peanut and timber-producing district in the country and home to the world's biggest cigarette plant.
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Last week, seven families submitted a temporary application to redevelop a builders' yard on Eaves Green Lane for eight caravans and timber sheds for toilets, showers and cooking facilities.
The East Asian countries are big importers of raw materials, so the slump in their economies has pushed down the prices of oil and other commodities such as metals and timber.
Inside the North American Fur Auction, a reeking 15, 000-square-foot mausoleum, white-coated dealers from around the world pick among the 5.5 million stiff pelts--lynx, bobcat, mink, muskrat, fox, beaver and timber wolf among them.
In Northern California, a fire in a remote area of brush and timber north of the town of Butte Meadows grew to more than 3 square miles, with 10 percent containment, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.
The vessel was carrying nearly three times its recommended limit of 74 passengers, including many indigenous tribal palm oil and timber workers returning to their home villages for a harvest festival holiday, said Bakar Sibau, a district police chief in Malaysia's Sarawak state.
Also known as loggers, lumberjacks typically harvest, cut and transport timber to be processed into lumber, paper and other wood products.
It affects all "extraction" industries, including natural gas, coal, copper, diamonds and possibly timber.
While the foundations were being dug, a steel-and-timber-framed shell of the house was built off-site.
In Victorian days, ships from Canada's Maritime provinces traded Caribbean sugar and molasses for timber, salt cod and potatoes.
Malaysia has dismissed their long-dormant territorial claim to the oil-and-timber-rich state, which has been part of Malaysia for five decades.
The Yekaterinburg native graduated from a mining institute and went on to found family timber and furniture business in 1991.
Conservation easements, unlike national parks, do generally allow for some economic activity to happen, usually preexisting uses like agriculture and sustainable timber cutting.
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The cobbled lanes and white washed buildings, made using traditional Qatari architectural elements including mud rendered walls and exposed timber beams, look to be from a bygone era.
Some take two or three hundred years to fully mature - and no timber licence lasts that long - so the diversity of the forest is being eroded.
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