Timber Security Practices, Vulnerabilities, and Challenges in the Southern United States

Conrad, Joseph; Grove, Patrick M.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2020.1725988

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“…The situation is interpreted as a triangle category '10-80-10', which means that there is 10% of the people who care about forest safety, 80% carry out forest encroachment and timber theft because they are forced, and another 10% because indeed from the beginning there was an intention and motivation to encroach (Conrad and Grove 2020). Functionally, LLNP is a conservation area that protects the world's biodiversity (Blicharska et al 2020;Corlett 2020;Fredericksen 2021).…”

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Deforestation as a catalyst for natural disaster and community suffering: A cycle in the socioecological system

Golar,

Muis,

Isrun

et al. 2024

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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Lore Lindu National Park (LLNP) is a conservation area that contains a lot of wood resources. Various illegal community activities have become widespread, such as illegal mining and illegal logging. So, this research aims to determine the involvement of communities around forest areas in material and wood theft from June to October 2021. To determine forest encroachment, we find explanatory variables, using qualitative description integrated with perceptual tests and Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. Based on the results of the 10-fold cross-validation analysis with the smallest Rcv (x-Val relative error) value of 0.428, with a classification accuracy of 68.6%, a four-node optimum tree was obtained, which explained that as many as 86 forest encroachers were victims of a vast landslide disaster along with flood and whirlwind, due to which there was no longer any property left for them. Their encroachment affected the condition of land cover. The data on the land cover change, from 2010 to 2020, showed a reduction of 15,369.20 ha or 6.90%, which indicated a severe threat to the sustainability of LLNP as a biodiversity conservation area that should be protected. The involvement in illegal logging by communities living around the forest areas resulted from the loss of their agricultural land for their livelihoods due to natural disasters such as flood, landslide and whirlwind that destroyed infrastructure and community settlement facilities. As a result, these losses and destruction were a catalyst for forest destruction. Initially being in the frontline for preserving the forest, however, the community has now turned into silent partners with licensed wood businesspeople. The community eventually becomes a subsystem in the social ecology system (SES), which negatively affects the destruction of forest resources, production and conservation forests.

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Deforestation as a catalyst for natural disaster and community suffering: A cycle in the socioecological system

Golar,

Muis,

Isrun

et al. 2024

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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“…These were loss of products due to theft, limited number of buyers and consumers, and struggles concerning physical health of the workers especially the elders, disabled, and other high-risk individuals to COVID-19. These issues especially theft and competition has been reported in several studies even before the pandemic has started (Hayama, 2003;Conrad & Grove, 2020), but the pandemic exacerbate the situation due to difficulty to go out especially if an individual is vulnerable. The lockdown in the country encourages them to stay at home to avoid being exposed to the coronavirus (Prasetyo et al, 2020).…”

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Survival Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: Contributions of the Forest to the Lives of the Filipino

Bona¹,

Timbal²,

Bangate³

et al. 2023

Ina.J.For.Res

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COVID 19 has brought significant damages to the lives of the people due to extremely long lockdowns and unemployment. Thus, leaving no choice to the residents but to depend their survival on what is available in the environment. This study was conducted to assess the contribution of the forests to the lives of the locals in Aurora through a survey on 161 respondents. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics like frequency, mean, rank, and percentage. Results showed that 100% of the respondents depends on the forests for their food which includes fruits and vegetables in the wild and in their farms situated in the along and in the forest. Meanwhile, 116 individuals (72%) obtained livelihood from the forest in times of the pandemic in the form of labor, farming, selling of forest goods, charcoal making, and furniture making. Generally, the individual income obtained from forest livelihood ranged from Php500.00 to Php25,000.00 and an overall mean individual monthly income of Php4,084.19. Each type of livelihood activities provided a mean monthly income ranging from Php 4350 to Php 9021 per person. However, the respondents faced challenges such as loss of products due to theft, competition among those with the same livelihood due to limited number of consumers, and struggles concerning the health of the workers especially the elders, disabled, and other high-risk individuals to COVID-19. The government must consider providing needs (financial, technical, knowledge) to the locals in obtaining products and services from the forest for a sustainable utilization of the resources.

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“…Operating costs, equipment costs, and government regulations (particularly those that favor larger firms or are outdated by rapid industry growth) are concerns found across the world in countries with older timber industries, as in Europe [22], and in countries with new or developing industries, as in Asia [23,24]. Timber theft can be another challenge for the logging business; however, this is a far less impactful issue in the United States [25] than it is in countries with less rigorous enforcement of rights and regulations, such as in South Africa [26]. Less developed industries, as in Eastern Europe, struggle with industry investment for modern equipment, leading to the inability to reach full production capacity [27].…”

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Characteristics and Concerns of Logging Businesses in the Southeastern United States: Results from a State-Wide Survey from Alabama

Bowman,

Jeffers,

Naka

2023

Forests

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A mail survey of Alabama logging firms was conducted in collaboration with the Alabama Loggers Council (ALC) in the spring of 2023 to gather data for current and future assessments of the logging industry’s status and challenges. The response rate was 23.02% after two mailings. The average age of the business respondents was 56 and the average age of employees was 48. About 35% of owners expected to exit the industry within five years, with one-third of those reporting that their business would cease to operate. Most owners who plan to continue operating after five years expect to maintain the same production level. The primary challenges facing logging businesses are increasing operating and equipment costs, the lack of labor and truck drivers, and mill issues (including quotas, shutdowns, and slow operations). COVID-19 has had some effects on Alabama logging operations, including reducing production for a majority of businesses.

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Timber Security Practices, Vulnerabilities, and Challenges in the Southern United States

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Deforestation as a catalyst for natural disaster and community suffering: A cycle in the socioecological system

Deforestation as a catalyst for natural disaster and community suffering: A cycle in the socioecological system

Survival Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: Contributions of the Forest to the Lives of the Filipino

Characteristics and Concerns of Logging Businesses in the Southeastern United States: Results from a State-Wide Survey from Alabama

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