Sentences with phrase «areas of forest in»

Spruce and pine bark beetles have recently infested vast areas of forest in North America, killing huge numbers of trees.

Less than 150 years ago, vast areas of forest in New England were cleared for agricultural use and to supply timber for local development.

The area of forest in North and Central America was estimated as almost the same in 2010 as in 2000.

«This study shows that fires are already degrading large areas of forests in Southern Amazonia,» Brando said, «and highlights the need to include interactions between extreme weather events and fire when attempting to predict the future of Amazonian forests under a changing climate.»

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«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smalleIn practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smallein the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smallein aerial photos — grew smaller.

It's in the middle of one of the only forests in the world that has never been touched by industry, an area that hosts six of Canada's biggest rivers.

The gang were recorded by CCTV cameras carrying out the heist at Joyalukkas, a Middle Eastern jewelry chain, in the Forest Gate area of east London.

We again thank for their patience and appreciation our customers in our Spring Branch service area who have endured among the longest outages resulting from the catastrophic flooding brought by Hurricane Harvey including the subdivisions of Fleetwood, Meadows of Memorial, Memorial Thicket, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham Oaks, River Forest, Talia Trails, Thornwood, Winchester, Yorkchester and others in the Memorial area.

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

All of this in close proximity to the state's natural areas of beauty makes Atlanta a particularly desirable «city in a forest.»

«The association between Wallace and the local area is quite well documented, with Wallace using guerilla tactics to fight the English from the Ettrick Forest, and the Scottish nobles made Wallace Guardian of Scotland in recognition of his military successes.

On his fourth voyage, when Christopher Columbus reached the coast of what is now Costa Rica, the admiral found an enormous wealth of forest in the area:

Irrelevant but personally changing question that I have found - In certain areas of the rain forests in South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplanIn certain areas of the rain forests in South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplanin South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplanin thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplanin the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplane.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worIn those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for theirForest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for theirforest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

In the United States we have long preserved scenic areas as national parks and tried to control exploitation of resources in national forestIn the United States we have long preserved scenic areas as national parks and tried to control exploitation of resources in national forestin national forests.

One isolated ridge - top in the Andean foothills of western Ecuador, only twenty square kilo - meters in area, lost as many as ninety unique plant species when the last of its forest was cleared to plant subsistence crops (Wolf 1987).

After all, the bank is well known for financing huge projects in developing countries that have made it an accomplice in the pollution of rivers, the burning of forests, and the strip mining of huge areas.

In both Mauritania and the mountainous areas of Rwanda, the demand for firewood is ten times the sustainable yield of remaining forests.

Huge areas of pine forests in the mountains east of Los Angeles are dead because of smog from Los Angeles.

This is being done on a large scale in South Korea and China, where enormous areas of land have been denuded of forests.

Large spaces in the forest of two and three hundred acres suddenly appeared cleared of the timber, and enclosed by rustic fences, with a few temporary huts run up in the centre, and all the surrounding area divided into patches of Indian corn, coracan, gram, and dry paddi: with plots of esculents and curry stuffs of every variety, onions, chillies, * yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes.

Because it was physically isolated for so long, due to impenetrable jungles and forests on its southern border, and also because it's just so far from other parts of Mexico, the area has remained Mayan in character since that time.

Chiltepin Preserve Officially DedicatedAfter a decade of waiting, Native Seeds / SEARCH, a Tucson - based seed conservation organization, announced that the National Forest Service has officially designated a 4 - square - mile area in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chiltearea in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chilteArea for the wild chile pepper, or chiltepin.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

We have applied this approach in Cameroon, focusing on two clusters of community forests that border protected areas in the country's southern region — one cluster that's adjacent to the CampoMa'an National Park and another that's near the Dja Biosphere Reserve.

Located in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, the concession covers an area the size of Rhode Island and its forests provide habitat to tapirs, giant otters, and pumas.

I'm sure the Brazilian coffee isn't shaded, since cerrado is savannah, not forest, and RA standards call for «Farms in areas where the original natural vegetation is not forest must dedicate at least 30 % of the farm area for conservation or recovery of the area's typical ecosystems.»

A recently published paper [1] by University of Georgia and Foundation researchers looked at the response of resident forest birds to disturbance and canopy cover in this area.

This paper looked at the diversity and abundance of frogs and salamanders in an area of tropical montane cloud forest, shade coffee farms, and corn plantations in southern Mexico.

In other areas, such as portions of Brazil where the native vegetation is not forest, shade canopy cover may be less appropriate ecologically or agronomically.

The communities we're working with reside on the Atlantic coast, in the central eastern and Corredor Seco regions, as well as in the remote, northeastern Moskitia area, where about a quarter of Honduras's remaining forests still stands; the commodities they produce include timber, cocoa, coffee, and rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

The only other coffees on the site I see labeled shade grown are the Panama Bambito which is in an area where much of the coffee is grown under good shade plus they have 5 ha of forest (I've been in that area, too), and the Ecuadorian coffee.

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

We were traveling through virtual forests of cactus, many of which only grow in this area.

The Estancia Itabo in Paraguay embodies a protected area of 5 000 hectares of high quality Interior Atlantic Forest.

In the meantime, others had prepared applications to the U.S. Forest Service for use of the Lookout Mt. area.

For the more daring enthusiasts, another 250 - plus miles of trails are waiting to be conquered with your off - highway vehicles in the Chappie - Shasta OHV Area, navigating through BLM land and the Shasta - Trinity National Forest.

Many sheepmen who use the national forest for grazing go in with sacks and sacks of strychnine pellets, some in peanut butter, some in honey, and throw»em around like seed, and they kill everything in the area before they bring their sheep in.»

The awkwardness surrounding Billy Davies and the infamous acquisition committee is well - documented but Forest still have one of the best squads in the division, despite the failure to address areas of weakness.

Mosquitoes, fleas and ticks tend to reside near bodies of water, tall and thick grassy areas and in the woods or forest.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest, which has been identified as a critical area of biodiversity and also one of the most endangered forests in the world, will the recipient of these trees.

However, one homeowner Rolfe Jaremus, who lives a mile away from the parcel, added up the park sites, forest preserves and private parks in the area, and concluded that instead of buying more land, the park district should install more drinking fountains in the existing parks and make sure the Community Center is always open.

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

With the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfires.

Mass Audubon submitted comments helped persuade the state to include the carbon sequestration value of forests and other natural areas in the Baseline Report.

On August 8, 2016, Hurricane Earl, a Category 1 hurricane, made landfall in Belize and resulted in 50 - 80 % tree damage in at least 50,000 acres of forest located in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area.

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