ABSTRACT
One way of influencing change in the way forestry is practiced to benefit habitat for animals, or conservation of biodiversity, is through incentive programs such as certification (see previous chapter), tax relief, or compensation for ecosystem services through the form of easements, land purchases, purchases of carbon credits, or habitat banking (Pagiola et al. 2002). More typically, certain practices are prescribed by law. In the United States, laws are policies enacted by legislature and signed into law by an executive branch and enforced through a judicial branch of government. There are certain things that society values strongly enough to prescribe it. Keep species. Manage forests for sustained yield. Do not participate in trade of globally endangered species.
