Sentences with phrase «clearing old growth forest»

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

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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.

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

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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.

«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.»