Sentences with phrase «as older forest»

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It takes about a hundred years for the new growth to store as much carbon as the old forest, they calculate.

Not exact matches

LinCA — it is entirely your choice if you would like to take a bunch of fossils over the indescribably fine tuned nature of our universe — the archaeological and historical proof of the old testament — the incontrovertible proof of the life of Jesus — sure go ahead and take the fossils... as forest gump says

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).

England international winger Wilfried Zaha has managed just two sub starts in the Premier League but is already an unwanted member of the Man United squad though the 21 year old is said to be the subject of interest from his former side Crystal Palace as well as West Ham and Nottingham Forest

It was hardly a titanic struggle, but by mowing down 39 - year - old Ken Rosewall in straight sets at Forest Hills, just as he did at Wimbledon, 22 - year - old Jimmy Connors proved he was a spectacular champion

Wenger when he first game to our club took us to a great new level, now as time passes he is dragging us down.for those who are old enough to remember Brian clough and what he meant to forest fans his last act was relegation.not expecting that from Wenger but he had to go his stubbornness on tactics, players, transfers and formations is there for all to see apart from our greedy board.

The Sunday People (8th April, page 51), claims that Forest are interested in signing the unpredictable 24 - year - old, who boasts a remarkable 12 goals and 23 assists in all competitions this season, and is understood to have a release clause in his contact that could be as around # 2m.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

Merely being in the presence of such iconic (if not controversial) species as tiny Marbled Murrelets and reclusive Spotted Owls — both pawns in the long - standing battle to conserve old - growth forests in the Northwest — was in itself a humbling experience.

As the youngest Democratic candidate in the bid for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) seat, 27 - year - old Mel Gagarin knows he is an outsider in a crowded race — and he is hoping to use it to his advantage.

New York state forest rangers found a mountaintop campsite used by a 28 - year - old New Jersey man as they continued their search Wednesday for the hiker in the Adirondack High Peaks.

Chain spokesman Glenn DiResto said the candidate vying to replace City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) axed Lee Landor as soon as the campaign learned of the 24 - year - old's online statement calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. a «racist» and President Barack Obama «O - dumb - a.»

I grew up in an old house in Forest Ranch, California as the eldest of four boys.

Past logging has razed more than a third of Białowieża Forest, but much old - growth — defined as a stand of trees in which at least 10 % are older than 100 years — survives on land managed by State Forests.

In some older specimens — including some species such as Sequoia, Pseudotsuga menziesii and many species in tropical rain forests — the canopy is 100 meters or more above the ground!

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

He began amassing a genetic library of hundreds of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the old - growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing.

«A lot of older adults will walk as their exercise of choice,» said Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest and lead author of the study.

Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old - growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale.

The aging of forests in the region was also a significant force behind potential slowing accumulation rates as growth rates are typically lower for older forest.

To illustrate the beauty of Saab's new engine, which reduces fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and slices other emissions by as much as 75 percent, the 41 - year - old engineer describes a lone runner jogging full tilt through a misty forest in his native Sweden.

With 1 in 5 acres of family forest land owned by people who are at least 75 years or older, and even more acres owned by people who are between 65 and 74 years of age, the question of who will own forests and what they will do with those lands in the future is significant for forest owners as well as land managers and communities.

But as in the case of the forest, one can not conclude that one group of stars is older than another solely because it contains more RR Lyraes.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

Our study shows that as trees die in an old forest, middle - aged trees fatten up.»

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

As demand for wood pellets rises, old growth forests are also put under pressure of harvest.

I am also confident that these species are very rare and may be dependent on old - growth forests or small water bodies such as springs and wetlands.»

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the northern spotted owl as threatened in 1990 because of the declines in old - growth forest habitat throughout its range in Washington, Oregon and northern California.

Denizens of bottomlands and old forests from the Carolinas to east Texas, the birds dwindled in number as their habitat was logged from the late 1800s through the 1930s.

Some of the mapinguari tales are just as fanciful: It is an old Indian whose hubris led him to seek immortality and who is now relegated to wandering the forest forever as a stinking, shaggy bicho (beast in Portuguese); it has a single eye, loves tobacco, and twists off the upper skulls of its human victims so as to suck up their gray matter.

However, the new study confirmed that temperate deciduous trees are different: The forest consumes CO2 just as well when the leaves are old as when they are new.

This concern was used as a reason to restrict logging activities in the old growth forests of Washington and Oregon — something which has benefitted the logging industry in neighboring British Columbia, I note.

His research on the ecology of the bird suggests that its old niche as a forest pigeon remains wide open, and the eastern forest it occupied has regrown to most of what it was before severe deforestation helped drive the bird extinct in the 19th century.

Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30 - year - old technique known as whole - cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell.

«One of the reasons we are seeing a steady increase in whooping cough cases is because immunity in our vaccines goes down some as we get older,» says Dr. Christopher Ohl, infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

Angela Bassett, as T'Challa's mother, and Forest Whitaker, as his mentor, represent an older generation.

This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish religious texts to fill out the story (which is actually quite short in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.

There is also a sing along track as well for the following songs «Over the Rainbow,» «Munchkinland Medley,» «Follow the Yellow Brick Road / You're Off to See the Wizard,» «If I Only Had a Brain,» «If I Only Had a Heart,» «We're Off to See the Wizard,» «If I Only Had the Nerve / We're Off to See the Wizard,» «Optimistic Voices,» «The Merry Old Land of Oz,» and «If I Were King of the Forest.»

The Secret of Kells (Unrated) Oscar - nominated animated feature, set in the 9th Century, about a 12 year - old, aspiring artist (Evan Maguire) who runs away from home to embark on a magical journey through the forest as the protégé of a master illustrator -LRB-(Mick Lally).

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

But worry not about the plot, which is as old as the jagged mountains and deep forests that bear witness to the cycles of power and as elusive as the mists that surround them.

«Only The Brave» gives you quite a viewpoint of fighting forest fires, and by fighting one large fire, what can be saved, such as a several hundred year old Joshua Tree.

This year it will be celebrated by more than 1 million 5 - 11 year olds, who will be joining in the fun as Shakespeare pops up in unexpected places around the country, from Wesminter Abbey to the Forest of Arden.

The Robert McCrum piece risks sounding a little bit... whiny, and coverage like this makes it sound as if all of us engaged in the book industry are collectively some sad, fat, old dodo stumbling helplessly about on the forest floor waiting for extinction.

In the middle of the night, 8 - year - old Havaa watches as her father is taken away by Russian soldiers, forcing her to flee into the snowy forest.