Sentences with phrase «by old growth trees»

Not exact matches

«The creationist side use to stick to the 6000 year calculation based on ages of people recorded in the Bible until certain trees have been demonstrated to be over 10,000 years old by counting their growth rings.»

Young bushes and trees grow, and grasses spread again in areas that were once dominated by old, dead growth.

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) prefers gallery forest and older second growth, and forages on large trees by probing the bark, epiphytes, mossy clumps, and vines — which wouldn't be left on trees in intensively managed coffee farms.

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.

Old - growth ponderosa pines are characterized by their yellow bark (younger trees have black bark), flat tops and straight limbs.

Surrounded by a forest of old - growth cedar and spruce trees the Garden Cottage is tranquil, private and just steps from the beach.

The property features spacious, manicured lawns right on the shore of Clear Lake surrounded by old - growth oak and redwood trees.

The campground area has shade in most sites provided by old growth (non-endemic) eucalyptus trees.

Later, I spent a night in Yallingup at a wellness retreat surrounded by old - growth jarrah trees.

Old - growth can not solely be determined by size or age of the trees within a forest because these qualities vary widely with species.

My work is informed by an interest in documentation of place, before our urban forests and old growth trees are lost to development.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, in a cottage surrounded by huge redwood trees, Gary was especially focused on trying to save the magnificent old growth forests.

In the forests of Wyoming, Hull has created winter dens for pine martens that mimic the tunnels created by fallen trees in old - growth forests, a habitat declining due to clearcutting.

This is followed by proposals to log the Tongass National Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent» old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).

Normally these insects are vital players in the life cycle of forests — they promote young growth by weeding out older, weakened trees.

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

(2) But these old - aged trees * are * very much impressed by the warming of the 20th century, as they raise their growth rate clearly exponentially, indeed resembling a hockey stick).

This model assumes that the CO2 sequestered by immature woodlands and forest plantations full of saplings is instantaneously equal (that is to say, without a 35 - to 50 - year deficit) to the centuries of carbon captured by the old - growth trees of a mature forest.

The SFI condones environmentally harmful practices including large - scale clearcutting and chemical use, logging of old growth and endangered forests, and replacement of forests by ecologically degraded tree plantations.