Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 96 — Global Climate Change
§ 6706. Institutes of Tropical Forestry
Statutory text
The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish an Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico and an Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Institutes”). The Institutes shall conduct research on forest management and natural resources that shall include—
management and development of tropical forests;
the relationship between climate change and tropical forests;
threatened and endangered species;
recreation and tourism;
development of tropical forest resources on a sustained yield basis;
techniques to monitor the health and productivity of tropical forests;
tropical forest regeneration and restoration; and
the effects of tropical deforestation on biodiversity, global climate, wildlife, soils, and water.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–624 title XXIV § 2407 · 104 Stat. 3359
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 6706
(Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIV, § 2407, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4060.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIV, § 2407, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4060.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 2407. INSTITUTES OF TROPICAL FORESTRY. The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish an Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico and an Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Institutes”). The Institutes shall conduct research on forest management and natural resources that shall include— (1) management and development of tropical forests; (2) the relationship between climate change and tropical forests; (3) threatened and endangered species; (4) recreation and tourism; (5) development of tropical forest resources on a sustained yield basis; (6) techniques to monitor the health and productivity of tropical forests; (7) tropical forest regeneration and restoration; and (8) the effects of tropical deforestation on biodiversity, global climate, wildlife, soils, and water.
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