If Forest Resource Assessment Nepal and projects like it are successful, that will change.

ECONOMIST: Forest conservation

Loggers, represented by the American Forest Resource Council, also sued the Forest Service--because the plan didn't propose harvesting or replanting nearly enough trees.

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But the American Forest Resource Council, a lobbying group that represents members of the timber industry, believes that forests should be managed to control fires and also to store carbon.

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Second, environmentalists have been effective at stopping timber sales because courts and agency officers have recognised consistently that the Forest Service, in catering mainly to logging over the decades, has failed to comply with scientifically sound resource-protection laws that govern forest management.

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He and his predecessor have managed the forest extremely well as a managed and sustainable resource, a haven for wildlife and as an excellent leisure facility for locals and visitors alike.

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The result, when processed through the computers of Arbonaut, a Finnish natural-resource-management company, is a three-dimensional image of the forest that can be correlated with, and calibrated by, the efforts of the chaps with the tape measures.

ECONOMIST: Forest conservation