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Democratization: active participation in policy and decisions by the community ○ Takeaway: decision making in most forests were not Democratic ○ Remember: Many local and small scale community based protected areas that were dem ■ Kings, nobles like HUNTING ■ Why did nobles like to hunt ● Social interactions, bonding in your class ● Recreation ● War training skills ○ Social Interactions ■ Nobles wrote their own family history ■ Hunting depicted like this in family history ○ Recreation ■ Women even hunting Detour ○ Native americans used animals which was a Native Americna weather forecasting History of Forest Ownership ○ Forests mostly owned by ruling classes, nobles, and kings ○ PEASANTS punished for killing animals in noble forests ■ Can also be fined or killed for collecting in forests ○ Punishment was severe if you touched damaged loras trees ○ POSITIVES: ■ Forests exist today in Europe b/c of what the nobles/kings controlled ■ Help supported the arts and took partying to high level of sophistication ■ How did Louis XIV control his nobles? ● He was smart he figured how to control them ■ Louis XIV had Col BERT which helped him rule ■ Colonel BERT: ● Developed program of economic reconstruction so France dominated the sea and economy ● 1669 Bert ruling on Waters and Forests recognized France needed to manage its forests and waters to become future ship building and naval power. Forest cutting followed a cut and run policy using rivers to transport logs Environmentalists introduced idea that ecosystems services have rights even if they do not provide human benefits and a global scale 1960 The US Forest service have decisions made ○ Pre 1960s : Forest policy for use was: ■ Developmental oriented = $$$$$

■ Prof foresters: focus on timber only Post 1960s Forest policies ■ New environmental laws ■ Increase partic by public with policy making ■ Biologists, ecologists, joined foresters in managing public lands Emergence of the environment in the US ○ Industrialized countries ○ Wanted developing countries to adopt environmental values Industrialized countries strategy used the fact they ...consumers of forest products to control supplier countries and their management of forests and biodiversity. ○ Approaches: ■ Global trade embargoes to stop deforestation (FAILED) ■ Brazil had high deforestation rates Forest Certification ○ Get customer to decide what they buy and their willingness to pay more $$$ ■ Problem: Consumers are cheap ■ TODAY: mostly industrialized countries make decisions CASE STUDY: Coffee certification ○ Coffee made by sustainable ○ High environmental value When did massive deforestation begin in US: mid 1800 industrialization Motives for Colberts forests ○ Hunting for recreation ○ Collective use of forests to provide material for building war ships ■ TODAY: Construct lots of wine barrels ● FRANCE had oak to make barrels for wine ● LOUIS the 14th ⇒ lots of oak trees need ⇒ people made wine barrels ■ Negatives: forests destroyed during warfare in world history ● Destroying forests became a weapon of war ● A TREND: destroy someone else's forests for military reasons ■ TRIGGERS: for massive deforestation in US ● Mid 1800s industrialization ● Formation of timber companies ■ IMPORTANT: American forests over exploitation started in North East US ○

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