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Transforming Trade to Benefit Forests and Livelihoods - March 2006

The Rights and Resources Initiative is a global coalition to advance forest tenure, policy and market reforms. RRI is formed by international, regional and community organizations engaged in conservation, research and development. The mission of the Rights and Resources Initiative is to promote greater global action on forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control, and benefits from forests and trees. RRI is coordinated by the Rights and Resources Group, a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. Please visit http://www.rightsandresources.org for more information.

Climate Change, Carbon, and the Forests of the Northeast

New Mexico State Forestry (NMSF) Division cooperates with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Health Protection (FHP), NM Zone to conduct annual insect and pathogen surveys of the state’s forests and woodlands.

FOREST ECOLOGY - Forest Stewardship Series 3 - Publication 8233

Broadly defined, ecosystem services are the benefits healthy ecosystems provide to humans. Clean air, clean water, and flood control are just a few examples. Although the term is relatively new, the ecosystem services concept has long been a focus of natural resource and environmental economists.

Official reports form city, county, state, and federal governments have listed response and mitigation costs of the fire and flood at nearly $60 million. This study adds to those costs, exploring the impacts on private property owners, as well as societal costs that are often overlooked when quantifying the full impact of disasters.

New Mexicans want a balanced water policy that plans for future shortages, expands water storage and reuse, addresses legal issues and protects environmental resources. They want to explore new water sources, including potential of cleaning up brackish water in our aquifers. They also want to improve the ways the state finances water projects.

The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) was a multi-year effort to produce information, maps, and models to help land managers, policy-makers, and others conduct mid- to broad-scale (e.g., watersheds to states and larger areas) prioritization of land management actions, perform landscape assessments, and estimate cumulative effects of management actions for planning and other purposes

This assessment uses SAVS, an assessment tool based on ecological principals, to rank individual species of interest within the eastern portion of the Barry M. Goldwater Range, Arizona, according to predicted climate change responses and associated population declines balanced with responses expected to incur resilience or population increases. Rocky Mountain Research Station Online Publication.