Its second-growth oaks, hickories, and sugar maples tower over the open pastures and fields of the lower slope and bottomland. |
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Most of the area is deforested and carpeted with African savanna grasses, but various parks preserve patches of remnant or second-growth forest. |
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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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No substantial difference was found between old-growth and second-growth decay rates. |
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Bradley watched the clearcutting of giant 250-year-old hemlocks on one 55-acre site by a mill that had a lumberyard stacked high with unsold second-growth logs. |
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