Sentences with phrase «for small forest»

«These new findings suggest that in order for small forest patches or narrow corridors to be of long - term conservation value in oil palm landscapes, their sizes and widths need to adequately account for the considerable influence of edge effects,» Benoît Goossens, director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, who was involved in the study, said in a statement.

Payments for forest carbon sequestration are an emerging opportunity for small forest owners to earn additional income and in turn to sustain both the economic and ecological values of the Northern Forest.

Funds may also be used for small forest landowner fish barrier correction and cross laminated timber projects.

With PEFC's vast experience in providing cost - effective certification solutions for small forest owners, we are compelled to transfer this expertise to Southeast Asia where robust models for affordable group certification are drastically needed.

A funding program for small forest landowners in Washington State to improve fish passage in streams with road crossings on their land.

Not exact matches

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 smaller.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

Rent office space by the month in Frenchs Forest - perfect for individuals, freelancers, small teams and growing startups.

There in the dark green forest, a small wink of white, a light in the darkness, a bright spot in the night, a home for fairies, perhaps, but it was just for us to see together, a gift.

It may be in visiting forest or seacoast in periodic retreat, either alone or in small groups with time for solitude; it may be by seeking out the edges of wild country in park or garden in the quiet corners of the day; or for those unable to travel first - hand, it may be by preserving such spiritual topography for future generations.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

I worked in the forest industry for twelve years and it was a running joke to consider how much people pay for cedar cut into small grilling planks when it's the same thing as the boards in the lumber yard.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

But that would be a small price to pay for a Nottinham Forest side desperate to strike a balance between strong defending and an attacking threat.

Great walks for baby's nap time are the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail in the Africa area, Maharajah Jungle Trek in the Asia section, and there's a small dinosaur walking area beside the Dinosaur!

There is a small playground area near the Forest Retreat perfect for little ones and handily located so you can see it from the decking of the Forest Retreat cafe meaning you can relax while the kids play.

Part of the fun of summer for kids is bringing their indoor play outside and this idea from My Nearest and Dearest of creating a forest small world play is a great starting point.

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Addison «s 53 Trails Estate Park District, $ 198,000 for 15.3 acres for a nature preserve; Cook County Forest Preserve District, $ 250,000 for 7.2 acres of the Wolf Road prairie near Westchester; Westmont Park District, $ 91,100 for 7.3 acres for a neighborhood park, nature trails and a small camping area;

If pumpkin pie is too «spicy» for you, Paciugo in Lincoln Square (also Lakeview and Forest Park) turns it into gelato and mellows it with amaretto ($ 3.49 for a small cup).

The Legislature passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a 250 - acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill parks, decreasing the time it takes to get smaller projects on state Forest Preserve land approved.

Covering about 32,020 hectares of forest land, the Kalakpa Game Reserve traverses two traditional areas; Adaklu and Abutia, and it is home for wild animals such as buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and smaller mammals.

Towns, villages and counties with «no viable alternative» to using forest preserve land for those public projects could make withdrawals of small parcels of needed land.

But for it to profit from small, low - value trees and biomass that must be trucked out of the forest, 4FRI stakeholders decided it made better business sense for the company to have hundreds of thousands of acres to work with.

Ultimately, what is needed is a pheromone treatment cheap and effective enough to be practical for both small, privately held acreage and for the vast stretches of public forest that are rapidly transforming from vibrant green to that disturbing shade of brown.

The amphibians themselves, Maerz notes, are an important prey species for «snakes, small mammals, turkeys and a host of forest creatures.»

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

In fact, he said, big trees do a lot for a forest ecosystem that their smaller counterparts can not.

There in the data forest, you find the peculiar tissue structure you've been looking for — your chance to make a small advance against a big disease.

«The proposal is for a small fraction of the affected park land, specifically ponderosa stands that experienced high - severity burn,» said Forest Service spokeswoman Reghan Cloudman.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

Deep in the Cretaceous forest, small plant - eating dinosaurs are quietly nibbling on tender shoots, keeping a watchful eye out for predators.

Kizilhan helped bring the women to a small town in Germany's Black Forest for psychological treatment.

In order for a business to serve the ecological need of the forests, McKinnon added, it must use really small wood, which is not in Pioneer's business model.

More than half the species for oceans and tropical forests are on a special watch list because of small and declining populations, limited ranges and severe threats to their habitats.

Figuring out the composition of dark earth and how it was formed offers a way to improve soil fertility for today's small farmers and also curb carbon emissions from the fires that these farmers set to clear the forest.

The researchers produced forest microclimate maps for an area of 16,000 km2 in central Sweden (covering parts of Värmland, Örebro län, Västmanland and Dalarna) with the help of small temperature data loggers, not larger than a finger nail.

Crustaceans, mussels and predatory fish as well as many smaller organisms that are important for the Baltic Sea ecosystem thrive in submarine Fucus forests.

An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time.

The Congressional Western Caucus has raised complaints that the site includes nonwilderness Forest Service land, as well as a small mining operation, and has called for unspecified cuts to the site.

So, for example, even though Canadians have a small footprint, Canada's excesses of cropland, forest and fisheries are essentially exported to countries like the U.S. and China, which have oversize footprints.

«For the great majority of small farmers, chopping down diverse forests and investing in a single species of tree — monoculture — is the simplest and quickest path out of poverty.

Although congressional Democrats in the region had pushed for a much larger 600,000 - acre recreation area, Obama's final proclamation in 2014 offered a smaller site, which is managed by the Forest Service.

For instance, Pimm and a small group of other scientists are now buying up cattle pastures in Brazil to try to connect fragments of highly diverse — and highly threatened — coastal forests.

So intrepid researchers from the International Center for Medical Research of Franceville in Gabon set out to trap small animals that might harbor the disease from forest regions that had recently been devastated, starting in 2001.

Mitton says it's possible to fly in a small plane over pine forests here for an hour or more and see almost no living pine trees.

Researchers believe pygmies» short stature evolved to equip them for their brief lives in the jungle; smaller bodies may move more nimbly through dense forest or be better able to dissipate heat.

But apparently they had, analysing just the smaller images without understanding the larger context of their surroundings — missing the forest for the trees.

For example, the number of forest fragments smaller than 10,000 hectares is rather similar in all three regions: 11.2 percent in Central and South America, 9.9 percent in Africa and 9.2 percent in Southeast Asia.

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.