The Nerussa River, a secluded waterway surrounded by peat bogs and old-growth oak forests, meandered through this area. |
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Bulldozing old-growth trees will make way for money-making species such as eucalyptus, teak and bamboo. |
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Manker himself tried to find the tree in 1955 but found only stumps of cut old-growth trees in the area. |
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When fires do occur in old-growth forests, they rarely kill the larger trees, which have thick, fire-resistant bark. |
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The practice of clear felling old-growth forests is deeply objectionable to a large percentage of the Tasmanian population. |
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Tree sitters can spend months camped on platforms in old-growth trees, hoping to call attention to the environmental effects of logging. |
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I subdivided the samples of old-growth trees at Bailey Woods according to slope position and aspect. |
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Tents are set in a canyon across from El Capitan State Beach, amid old-growth oak and sycamore trees. |
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They are often found in mature and old-growth forests, but will breed in second growth as long as there are some large nesting trees. |
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Even the landscaping goes beyond merely preserving the existing old-growth trees and heritage plants indigenous to the region. |
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In much of the country, Barred Owls are associated with large trees in old-growth forests. |
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The kinds of birds and animals that have not yet returned are mostly species preferring old-growth forest habitat. |
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Our study examined seed dispersal of trees in an old-growth forest. |
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Multinational forest companies continue to regularly clear-cut old-growth forests, and biodiversity is rapidly waning. |
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They are constructing around existing old-growth trees and heritage plants. |
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The main casualties are tree species characteristic of old-growth forests. |
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A hike through a cool, old-growth forest of Douglas fir or Engelmann spruce is a timeless experience. |
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The parklike understory turned into rank undergrowth, and the inevitable result was a bushfire that destroyed all the old-growth, hollow trees. |
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Here, we report on the genetic composition of red oaks in remnant old-growth forest in Indiana. |
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The waterway we have been following loops around this island of scrub, which is surrounded by old-growth tawa and rimu forest. |
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Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds. |
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In an old-growth forest, rotting trees sprouting new saplings are a common sight. |
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Of the smaller old-growth woodlands that have survived, most have gone unrecognized and unappreciated. |
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened seabird species, nests primarily in old-growth trees up to 75 kilometers from the coast. |
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The yew tree is found only in old-growth forests, so it has now become a potential problem, along with the spotted owl, in trying to save these forests. |
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We import 33 percent of the softwood we consume, much of it from old-growth forests in Canada and Siberia. |
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The example du jour is his persistent, some might say perverse desire to ram roads through some of our last old-growth forests. |
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Research indicated the owl is an indicator species whose decline indicates the imperilment of the old-growth forest ecosystem. |
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These old-growth and deadwood islands also perform an important role in ecological connectivity. |
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More than 95 percent of America's old-growth forests has been logged. |
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It remains unclear whether the delisting would result in the resumption of old-growth logging. |
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Interspecific competition increased with the development of the old-growth oak broad-leaved mixed forest stand. |
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It is home to the world's southern-most old-growth forests, Chile's largest population of the llama-like guanaco and significant marine life. |
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It's now Crown land on long-term lease, renewed every 10 years on the condition that cabin owners protect the old-growth trees that tower on the steep slopes behind them. |
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Similary, species that follow army ants were more diverse and more abundant in this study in older second-growth and old-growth forest than in the younger site. |
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These forests contain old-growth stands of Eastern hemlock, red spruce, and sugar maple. |
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Information on the location of old-growth sites was graciously provided by C. Bowling, W. Carmine. |
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Only about 4percentt of old-growth redwood forests remain. |
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This report is the fourth in the series, and discusses retaining tree patches and individual trees in an old-growth stand that was manually felled and where log extraction was performed mainly with cable systems. |
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Provincial actions to limit timber harvests or to set aside prime old-growth forest in parks and other protected areas have a direct impact on the wood products sector. |
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Coniferous forests appear to be an absolute requirement for nesting but in some areas the hawks prefer contiguous mature or old-growth mixed forest dominated by conifers. |
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Would you like to give some foster care to an old-growth forest? |
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The park features soaring glacier-clad peaks and valleys of unique stands of old-growth cedar and hemlock, critical habitat for endangered wildlife like mountain caribou. |
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Evans draws her inspiration from an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island. |
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However, methods used to harvest the timber, such as clear cutting and logging of old-growth trees, are questionable from an environmental standpoint. |
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The old-growth Douglas fir featured on our state's license plate is a powerful image for Oregonians. |
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No substantial difference was found between old-growth and second-growth decay rates. |
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Wind 48km through the old-growth karri forest of Shannon National Park. |
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The newly-elected Coalition Government has committed itself to protecting significant tracts of Tasmania's old-growth forests, particularly in the Tarkine and the Styx Valley. |
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Consequently, few studies have been undertaken to quantify the composition and structure of Ohio's old-growth forests using a landscape ecosystem perspective. |
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Forest Service and the nonprofit Wilderness Society each released its own inventory of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. |
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But the matter of precisely when the Tongass National Forest should begin its shift away from logging old-growth forests has been a hotly contested question. |
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A threatened seabird that nests only in old-growth forests, Marbled Murrelets embody the interconnection between ocean and forest ecosystems. |
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Effect of thinning and prescribed fire restoration treatments on woody debris and snag dynamics in a Sierran old-growth, mixed-conifer forest. |
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Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks. |
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Even if this loss is partially offset by forest regrowth in some parts of the world, half of it is composed of old-growth forests that are not easily replaced. |
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Catching these unauthorized loggers red-handed as they harvest old-growth timber would be ideal, but not very likely, considering the millions of hectares of forested land in the province. |
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An alternate path explores an old-growth red fir forest along West Sulphur Creek. |
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But the right takes cyclists through a beautiful old-growth forest and past a cragged yet majestic cherry tree believed to be more than 800 years old that has been designated one of Japan's natural national treasures. |
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On March 8, members of the Mattole Forest Defenders unfurl a banner in the second largest remaining stand of old-growth Douglas fir. |
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The ivory-bill was a natural denizen of old-growth forests in the southeastern United States and Cuba. |
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The data show that faster grown cedar is of lower wood density than old-growth but this will not affect its utility given that the major uses of western red cedar are for appearance or nonstructural products. |
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For one thing, many invertebrates in old-growth forests are weak flyers or flightless, so that they too do not disperge well after a timber harvest. |
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