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The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
Private nonindustrial forest lands are forest lands in various countries, owned by private individuals or organizations that do not also own a wood processing facility. Nonindustrial private forests cover about 360 million acres in the United States, or roughly one-half of the nation's total forested acres.
The Commonwealth describes a wild area as "land where development or disturbance of permanent nature will be prohibited, thereby preserving the wild character of the area" and "an extensive area which the general public will be permitted to see, use and enjoy for such activities as hiking, hunting, fishing, and the pursuit of peace and solitude."
404 acres (163 ha) Protects a population of pitcher plants. [29] [30] East Branch Swamp Natural Area: Sproul: Clinton: 186 acres (75 ha) [24] [31] Forrest H. Dutlinger Natural Area: Susquehannock: Clinton: 1,521 acres (616 ha) Named after an early Commonwealth forester; includes old growth forest remnants. [32] [33] Frank E. Masland Natural ...
Contains 1,781 combined acres of old grown forest [2] Buchanan: Bedford, Franklin, & Fulton: 71,683 acres (29,010 ha) [3] Clear Creek: Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer & Venango: 16,716 acres (6,765 ha) [4] 1919, as Kittanning State Forest: Name changed 2007 Cornplanter: Crawford, Forest, & Warren: 1,585 acres (641 ha) [5] Named in honor of ...
Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act is a public lands acquisition law enacted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 22 June 1964. It permits the state to issue bonds for the purchase of lands for public parks, reservoirs, and other conservation, recreation, and historical preservation purposes, and to coordinate those purchases with ...
Upon Oregon's admission to the union, the federal government ceded to the state two sections of each township to generate revenues for a Common School Fund, a trust fund for support and maintenance of public schools. 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) had previously been allowed to Oregon by an 1841 act of Congress, and 5% of all proceeds from the sale ...
Alaska has the most national forest land, with 21.9 million acres (8.9 million ha), followed by California (20.8 million acres, 8.4 million ha) and Idaho (20.4 million acres, 8.3 million ha). Idaho also has the greatest percent of its land in national forests, with 38.2 percent, followed by Oregon (24.7 percent) and Colorado (20.9 percent).