Sentences with phrase «newly planted tree»

Since every newly planted tree seedling in the tropics removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20 — 50 years, compared with 13 kilograms of CO2 per year for a tree in the temperate regions, much of the afforestation and reforestation opportunity is found in tropical countries.
(Every newly planted tree seedling in the tropics removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20 — 50 years, compared with 13 kilograms of CO2 per year for a tree in the temperate regions.)
A Tree Burial is one type of green burial in which the body is laid to rest under a newly planted tree.
Regardless of what you believe about life, imagine being able to provide your loved ones the comfort in their grief of being able to visit your body's resting place situated in a field of flowers, under your favorite tree, under a newly planted tree, or some other peaceful location.
Below is a picture of the newly planted tree and a 7 year old mature version.
Parents: Have your child pick a date and time during Teacher Appreciation Month to meet their teacher at the newly planted tree every year.
Fifteen newly planted trees were lost, but luckily they were covered under warranty, said Chicago Department of Environment spokesman Larry Merritt.
To learn more, the researchers studied tolerance to HLB under field conditions for newly planted trees of scion / rootstock combinations.
I got to know the community better, at least by sight, and daily chronicled in my mind and journaled all the changes that were taking place — house repairs, newly planted trees, or freshly paved roads.
The incredible work of the grassroots movement has resulted in more than 50 million newly planted trees in Kenya.
Timber harvesters can plant as many small trees they want, but it will not stop a large downpour from washing away most of the topsoil and all those newly planted trees right into the nearest watershed.
There, on a formerly shopworn industrial site, newly planted trees, a ten - acre living roof, and a series of constructed wetlands and swales are restoring soil, creating habitat, and revitalizing the landscape while effectively filtering stormwater runoff for $ 35 million less than conventional technical methods.
According to Crosscut, using carefully targeted herbicides to aid the growth of new forests can speed up the normal process of succession, which can take a century or more in some cases, by helping to eliminate the competition for space, light, moisture, and nutrients by other plants, in favor of the newly planted trees.

Not exact matches

Cutworms should be called Paul Bunyan worms because when they arrive in your garden, the tender bedding plants resemble newly fallen trees.
But just as the felling of a large tree allows young plants to sprout in the newly sunny ground that it formerly shaded, the passing of a major scientist permits new ideas to spring up in the intellectual space she or he once dominated.
The [newly released] glyphosate can then be absorbed by the trees and plants, and cause damage to the subsequent crop.
In place of the old broken concrete, weeds and rusted poles — remnants of a basketball court — is a newly sodded football field and a newly planted arboretum full of skinny young trees.
First, the brown, churning water - the circle of our river around us; inside that, the quilt squares of our fields, which were turned dirt, newly planted seeds, the bright green carpet of a field just beginning to come to life, fences mended or falling down into the soft new grass, humped haystacks, our cattle herd, our sheep herd, our goats, bare birch trees pointing straight into the heavens; and in the center, in the heart, our cobbled and dirt streets, our red - tiled and gray - shingled roofs radiating out from the town square with its statue of a long - dead war hero in the middle.
The newly relocated plant store is run by Flora Grubb, well - known for her selection of palm trees.
The grounds are expansive; you may grab a bicycle to navigate the concrete paths meandering around the sand dunes with newly - planted palm trees.
This newly - completed Italian style villa is located on a substantial 1 - acre lot, planted with exotic flowers and fruit trees.
Newly purchased palm trees and other tropical specimen plants, are now planted around the pool and other areas replacing many of the palms destroyed by the storm.
«You can't «net out» deforestation by planting trees,» said Zarin, «because newly planted forests are far less valuable for carbon, biodiversity and forest - dependent people than standing native forests.»
With these newly planted Polylepis trees, ECOAN and participating communities have now planted more than one million trees in the Vilcanota Mountains alone,» said Gregorio Ferro Meza, who coordinates this project and along with Aucca is one of the co-founders of ECOAN.
The Court reasoned that if the «newly planted «living tree» which is the Charter is to have the possibility of growth and adjustment over time, care must be taken to ensure that historical materials... do not stunt its growth.»
Our newly expanded spring collection features an array of lifelike flowers and plants, all crafted with the same quality and attention to detail you've come to love with our Christmas trees.
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