Sentences with phrase «local stands of trees»

By differentiating the financial gains of different conservation strategies — large but distant preserves versus small, local stands of trees — Karp thinks the study could provide a framework for introducing similar efforts in agricultural zones around the world.

Not exact matches

After we deliver medical supplies to a looted hospital in the small city of Al Qurnah, the grateful staff insists that we visit the site where local legend says the tree of life once stood.

That is until Carson's mother, no longer able to stand the sight of the tree, hires a local landscaper to remove it in the middle of the night.

My personal opinion not worth much and based upon nothing other than I have grown a few things, is that tree - ring proxies are indicative of little other than hoe felicitous the local conditions were to the welfare of that particular stand of trees.

Let me challenge you to blind test to show me a stand of trees that can predict the local temperature to within a degree.