Forest Conservation

In September 2000 147 heads of State met at the United Nations to discuss the question of pervasive poverty and lack of development.  This summit produced the United Nations Millennium Declaration, laying out eight goals to free the human race from want.  Not surprisingly, among these eight is the goal of environmental sustainability, and one of the key targets listed is to reverse the loss of environmental resources, measured by areas protected to maintain biological diversity.

On April 21st, CBI and The Nature Conservancy hosted a meeting in Duluth, MN to discuss climate change in northeastern MN and to begin developing scenarios that could be used with a forest simulation model to estimate the effects of climate change on the extensive forests of northeastern MN.