Project Background
Planning Board Presentation
The County Executive, DEPRM Director David Carroll, and Don Outen attended a session of the County's Planning Board on Thursday, January 20, 2005, during which the Green Renaissance initiative was further announced. Outen made a PowerPoint presentation to the Board about our forest sustainability project, as the first of what will be a series of presentations about DEPRM programs over the coming months.
Planning Board Presentation 1.62 MB (PDF)
Presentation Text (PDF)
Supporting Documents
The Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests ("Montreal Process") was formed in Geneva in June 1994 to advance the development of internationally agreed criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests at the national level.
Communicating Key Issues from the National Report on Sustainable Forests - 2003 (PDF)
This is the text of a manuscript prepared in March 2005 by Jeff Horan and Don Outen at the invitation of the national Roundtable on Sustainable Forests, addressing Communicating Key Issues from the National Report on Sustainable Forests - 2003.
Revised March 12, 2008
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