Hi Tom, I don't know of any NGOs actually managing forest areas, but in Germany there is at least one example of a cooperation between an NGO and a community forest service - some agreement between Greenpeace and the Forestry Bureau of the City of Luebeck about nature-protective management concepts. You might contact Dr Lutz Faehser for further information (Stadtforstamt Luebeck - Amt 82, Kronsforder Hauptstr. 80, D-2400 Luebeck, Germany). (There is some important difference to what you are really looking for: Greenpeace does not hold any financial or other responsibility for Luebeck's forest). Among German foresters there seems to exist some disagreement about the usefulness of this concept - but this might be a possible topic for this discussion list? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elsasser <elsasser@aixh0301.holz.uni-hamburg.de> tel.++40-73962-309 Institute for Economics, Department for Forest Policy fax ++40-73962-480 Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products, D-21027 Hamburg --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Tom Beckley (403) 435-7372 wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I am going to be co-teaching a forest policy course in the fall. We are > setting up a number of group assignments for students to research and present. > One assignment will deal with ownership/control of forest land and optimal > allocations of land to various types of tenure holders. What I am curious > about is if anyone knows of any literature on or actual experiments with > environmental NGO's managing land? The Nature Conservancy obviously comes to > mind, but are there other examples, or a literature on what that might look > like? It strikes me as odd that Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, or even > EarthFirst have not approached governments and said, "Give us 300,000 hectares > to manage." Given that they often portray government being "in bed" with > industry, or incapable of balancing fibre management with ecosystem health, > that they haven't lobbied for such an experiment. Too far fetched? or is it > going on and I just haven't heard of it? > > You can address responsed to the network or to me personally. > > Tom Beckley e-mail: TBECKLEY@NOFC.FORESTRY.CA > Forest Sociologist > Canadian Forest Service > 5320 - 122 Street > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > T6H 3S5 > > Phone (403)435-7372 > FAX (403)435-7359 >
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