Sentences with phrase «older forest cleared»

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Not exact matches

The oldest translations also make it clear that El and his people chopped down a forest by hand and pushed back water to build Eden.

It IS so easy to get caught up in all the depressing stuff happening in the world (Rob and I were just talking about this as we passed yet another clear cut on our island home... another old forest... gone).

The illicit practice affects not only centuries - old rosewood trees but also swaths of rain forest that poachers clear to access them.

The researchers collected soils from recently clear - cut forests and from older forests, and pulled carbon from the soil in a sequence of gentle to stronger extractions.

But clearing old growth forest to plant new trees is not a good idea.

Midway up the mountains, overgrown clear - cuts show up as yellow - green rectangles against the darker green of old - growth forest.

The sacred forests have effectively protected old - growth trees from clear - cutting for centuries despite major upheavals in the region's history, including the logging era and the Cultural Revolution.

Much of the old - growth forest in the area has been cleared for pasture in the last 50 years, but about 30 percent of the old - growth remains in patches ranging from less than two to more than 2,500 acres.

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Vancouver Island — Clear cool streams once flowed through humid old - growth forests rich in lifeforms on northern Vancouver Island.

The findings from Triquet Island's archaeological site... Vancouver Island — Clear cool streams once flowed through humid old - growth forests rich in lifeforms on

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As the old paths crumble, the new way out of the forest has yet to be cleared.

With lush tropical forests, palm fringed beaches, crystal clear water and old world charm, the island also enjoys a very well established tourist infrastructure.

In this poetic slideshow, the audience learns that 95 % of the old growth forest has already been harvested and that the clear - cutting has left perhaps 75,000 miles of damaged stream and river.

What about the fact that 95 - 98 % of existing forests and millennia old rain forests were clear felled in Australia plus 100 years ago?

Cutting old - grown forests, wetland forests and clear - cutting is illegal or highly regulated in most of Europe.

Receding Swiss glaciers incoveniently reveal 4000 year old forests — and make it clear that glacier retreat is nothing new Watts Up With That?

«Our results suggest that deforestation bans may protect mature forests better than older forest regrowth and may restrict clearing for large - scale crops more effectively than clearing for pasture.»

«This report makes clear that nations must look not just at the tropics but at all the world's old - growth forests for climate change solutions.»

The term «woodmen» was inspired by an old parable about the good that came from the woodmen clearing the forests to build homes, communities and providing security for their families.