Sentences with phrase «including old growth»

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

Not exact matches

«Vice has taken the old Viacom playbook and built a great youth media business for today's world,» said Freston, who believes Vice's suite of channels that include food, sports and news verticals is prime for continued growth.

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

In addition, as the vast majority of both the older and newer Pentecostal churches see themselves as part of a broader community of evangélicos which includes their historic brethren, the latter have been able to bask in some of the reflected glory of Pentecostal growth.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Your pediatrician will also have all of your child's old records, including growth charts, and will be more familiar with your families medical history and can review his overall growth and development.

The report — intended to show the state's economic growth — included a prominent, eight - year - old photo of seven construction cranes in South Africa.

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.

Effective conservation efforts should include maintenance of large old - growth forest tracts, the scientists wrote, and insure that human activities in the forest do not drive away species that depend on such areas.

Investigations based on these proteins might lead to new ways to combat the disease, including a vaccine, new types of drugs to block the growth of the bacteria, or even restoring the efficacy of some older antibiotics that have lost their usefulness, said Aleksandra Sikora, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy.

In vitro studies on self - inactivating vectors, including a recent paper by this group comparing the growth of cells treated with their new vector and the old one, are boosting confidence.

Of the 620 people, all older than 20, included in the study, 438 were found to have either pre-cancerous growths, known as polyps, or colorectal cancer ranging from early to late - stage in development.

In certain delta frequencies the brain releases many highly beneficial substances, including human growth hormone, which we ordinarily make in decreasing quantities as we get older — resulting in many aging symptoms including loss of muscle tone, increased weight gain, loss of stamina, and many diseases associated with aging.

This 7 - 8 lesson pack contains lessons on: Business growth x2 - mergers and takeovers, PLCs and financing growth Changes in aims and objectives Business and globalisation x2 - international trade, imports, exports, tariffs, trade blocs etc Ethics and business x2 - different ways businesses can be ethical, pressure groups and their influence Exam style questions included with answers so students can self assess All lessons have recap questions with answers from previous lessons, some of this completely new content compared to old spec so should save you some time.

Hawaii and Delaware are not exceptions: Across the country, the «new» teacher evaluations that include student growth continue to look a lot like the old ones that did not consider student performance.

Front matter, including Table of Contents and Preface Introduction: The School Zone SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter One Time to Learn Chapter Two Time, Growth, and Learning Chapter Three Using Time Wisely SECTION TWO: OBSERVATIONS Chapter Four Floating on the Surface in Seventh Grade Chapter Five On Your Mark, Get Set... Seven Years Old in First Grade Chapter Six Working to Be «All There at Once» SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter Seven Changing School Time Chapter Eight Changing the Structure of Time in Classrooms Chapter Nine Changing the Use of Time in Classrooms Chapter Ten Time to Teach Afterword: Heros in the Classroom Appendix A: Standards Appendix B: The Responsive Classroom ® Notes References Acknowledgments Index About the Author Northeast Foundation for Children, 1999, 336 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-01-8

The Institute For Literacy and Learning This website has overheads and sound files of eminent researchers discussing evidence - based instructional interventions for struggling readers, young and old, including: Dr. Deb Glaser - «Planning Professional Development for Positive Reading Success and Growth» Dr. Rollanda O'Connor - «Teaching Older Poor Readers to Read words» Dr. Jan Hasbrouck - «Using Assessment Data for RTI Decisions» Dr. Sharon Vaughn - «Teaching Older Students with Reading Difficulties» Dr. Randy Sprick - «Introduction to School - wide and Classroom Discipline: Getting the Year off to a Great Start» Dr. Ed Shaprio - «RTI: What's Working?»

United Drug (UDG: ID or LN): Poor old United Drug... Long gone are the days when they proudly included compound growth tables in their annual reports!

Life stages include growth (for puppies), adult maintenance, gestation / lactation (pregnant dogs), senior (appropriate for older dogs), and «all life stages.»

There are both surgical options for hip dysplasia including 1) Total Hip Replacement 2) Femoral head ostectomy and some other procedures like JPS which are done early in growth which would not likely benefit your puppy at 9 months old.

Possible sunrise paddle before breakfast?!! Similar activities as days 2 & 3 during the morning, including the option of a morning paddle through nearby sea arches and islets, or short interpretive walk into ancient temperate old - growth rainforest.

5 — Fir Trail / Cedar and Fir Grove — The Fir trail is an easy extension to the Lake trail and has some magnificent groves of old growth forest including giant Douglas Fir and Cedar trees.

The Belcampo Lodge is host to numerous natural and cultural adventures including nature trails, a river and two streams, foothills and mountains, abundant birds, colorful butterflies and exotic wildlife, old - growth Rainforest and a Mayan burial site.

11 — Lazy Lizard Lookout — The new Lazy Lizard bike trail includes machine built berms, bridges and Old Growth forest.

Named after Oregon's 14th governor, the park boasts 2484 acres of majestic splendor, including temperate old - growth forest, striking coastal headlands and a secluded sandy beach.

Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the Western Hemisphere and the 2nd largest in the World, is composed of coral growth that is thousands of years old, including boulder corals of up to 300 years old.

In 1918 after realizing how much of the old - growth forests closer to San Francisco had been harvested, Boone and Crockett Club members formed the Save - the - Redwoods League, and began working to preserve redwood forests in the region, including the area that became Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

Feature Tours has Perth and its surrounds covered, taking you to destinations including: Perth city Fremantle Wave Rock The Pinnacles Desert Swan Valley winery and wine tasting tours Swan River Cruises Rottnest Island Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA) Dolphin cruises Australian wildlife South West, Margaret River Wine Region, caves, Albany, Busselton Jetty, Tree Top Walk, Valley of the Giants, Pemberton, old growth forest, the Gloucester Tree Monkey Mia Dolphins, Kalbarri, Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef Western Australia's beautiful wildflower regions The real Australian outback

Visitors are invited to walk, Hike, Bike Ride, Camp & Horseback Ride on over 200 miles of trails that weave through a variety of environments, including prairies, old - growth redwood forests and beaches.

Nearly half of the remaining old growth redwoods are in this park system, including giants five stories taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The Machaca Hill Lodge is host to numerous natural and cultural adventures including nature trails, a river and two streams, foothills and mountains, abundant birds, colorful butterflies and exotic wildlife, old - growth Rainforest and a Mayan burial site.

Policies to ban logging on old growth forsts, end fossil fuel subsidies and ban all new export coal mines (including Adani) are outlined here under «ENVIRONMENT»: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au / policies

A Recently developed network of old - growth sites, including many eastern US tree species, has provided researchers with new insights on forest growth, stand age structure, natural senescence, biomass production, and the mitigating impacts of climate change.

It's raining again so I've been reading some old articles by George Monbiot (it's either that or get drunk), including one from New Year's Eve 2002 in which he argued that, because population growth, increasing consumerism and the «finity» of natural resources threatened the survival of humanity, people should stop buying knickers at Brent Cross shopping centre.

«Any effective and affordable response to climate change should include preserving the world's remaining, carbon - rich old - growth forests,» said Steve Kallick, director of the Pew Environment Group's International Boreal Conservation Campaign.

The Department of Olancho, Honduras's largest and most biologically diverse region, hosts a wide variety of forest eco-systems, including mountaintop cloud forests, rare old - growth pine forests and lowland tropical rainforests.

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.

Opportunities this year include park maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park).

Factors in this growth include increasing numbers of older people and continuing new treatments resulting from advances in medical science.

Additional topics covered during breakout sessions include strategies for recycling or repositioning older buildings, information metrics, the latest in sales and marketing techniques, lenders and their terms, loan package requirements, competing for capital, sourcing growth capital, how some companies faced maturities in their capital structure and new strategies to drive NOI.

Durable and affordable options include Marmoleum, a sustainable linoleum, which no longer resembles what your parents or grandparents had but comes in hot colors and textures; old - growth bamboo that's denser than new variations; and cork, another natural material that's easily repairable if dings (or worse) occur.