President Kennedy continued a conservation focus for the USA. His speeches regarding the natural world would take flight in 1972. It is that focus all great leaders need to achieve a path for the USA that is sustainable with it's vision mired in heritage.
...The Forest Legacy Program (FLP), (click here) a Federal program in partnership with States, supports State efforts to protect environmentally sensitive forest lands. Designed to encourage the protection of privately owned forest lands, FLP is an entirely voluntary program. To maximize the public benefits it achieves, the program focuses on the acquisition of partial interests in privately owned forest lands. FLP helps the States develop and carry out their forest conservation plans. It encourages and supports acquisition of conservation easements, legally binding agreements transferring a negotiated set of property rights from one party to another, without removing the property from private ownership. Most FLP conservation easements restrict development, require sustainable forestry practices, and protect other values....
This program is so incredible there is absolutely no reason for a private forest owner to turn away from it. If land is now in use for forest, it needs to continue to produce that precious resource and be held in esteem into the future of this nation.
...In addition to gains associated with the sale or donation of property rights, many landowners also benefit from reduced taxes associated with limits placed on land use....
Today, conservation and our precious public parks are under siege by the climate, but, also by industry. The USA has reached it's limit of exploiting natural resources without causing our beautiful country to become ugly. The beauty of nature has a purpose and it is that purpose that needs to be the most honorable of our resources.
Programs such as "The Forest Legacy Program" needs to be mandatory to end the urbanization and industrialization of our national lands. We cannot strip the potential of the future to the bone to profit today, that is stealing from future generations. These lands are not about managing them for optimal income, they are heritage lands and the people have a right to them.
Seeking the Greatest Good: (click here) The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot highlights the history and continuing value of Pinchot’s philosophy of natural resource conservation through sustainable use. In the wake of major wildfires, loss of forests to development, and other conservation concerns stakeholders of all kinds have come to realize that sustainable forest management will play a role in conserving forests for a wide array of values—water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and climate mitigation as well as wood and bioenergy. The film shows how the work of the Pinchot Institute and Grey Towers National Historic Site are bringing people together to discover solutions to conservation challenges unimagined in Pinchot’s day.
...The Forest Legacy Program (FLP), (click here) a Federal program in partnership with States, supports State efforts to protect environmentally sensitive forest lands. Designed to encourage the protection of privately owned forest lands, FLP is an entirely voluntary program. To maximize the public benefits it achieves, the program focuses on the acquisition of partial interests in privately owned forest lands. FLP helps the States develop and carry out their forest conservation plans. It encourages and supports acquisition of conservation easements, legally binding agreements transferring a negotiated set of property rights from one party to another, without removing the property from private ownership. Most FLP conservation easements restrict development, require sustainable forestry practices, and protect other values....
This program is so incredible there is absolutely no reason for a private forest owner to turn away from it. If land is now in use for forest, it needs to continue to produce that precious resource and be held in esteem into the future of this nation. ...In addition to gains associated with the sale or donation of property rights, many landowners also benefit from reduced taxes associated with limits placed on land use....
Today, conservation and our precious public parks are under siege by the climate, but, also by industry. The USA has reached it's limit of exploiting natural resources without causing our beautiful country to become ugly. The beauty of nature has a purpose and it is that purpose that needs to be the most honorable of our resources.
Programs such as "The Forest Legacy Program" needs to be mandatory to end the urbanization and industrialization of our national lands. We cannot strip the potential of the future to the bone to profit today, that is stealing from future generations. These lands are not about managing them for optimal income, they are heritage lands and the people have a right to them.
Seeking the Greatest Good: (click here) The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot highlights the history and continuing value of Pinchot’s philosophy of natural resource conservation through sustainable use. In the wake of major wildfires, loss of forests to development, and other conservation concerns stakeholders of all kinds have come to realize that sustainable forest management will play a role in conserving forests for a wide array of values—water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and climate mitigation as well as wood and bioenergy. The film shows how the work of the Pinchot Institute and Grey Towers National Historic Site are bringing people together to discover solutions to conservation challenges unimagined in Pinchot’s day.
