Sentences with phrase «old forest growth»

Just a cursory listing of these benefits: decrease in removal of old forest growth, decrease in fuel consumption for transport, and decrease in land and water used in the storage and creation of physical books.

Little sparks catch a dry patch of dry leaves or twigs, then fallen trees and on to old forest growth.

Not exact matches

I was recently in Oregon where feelings are running very high about restrictions on logging for the sake of preserving old - growth forests.

Thus if one wants theological license to increase radioactivity without constraint, to consent to the bulldozer mentality of developers, or to encourage unbridled harvest of old growth forests, historically there has been no better scriptural source than Genesis 1 - 2.

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) prefers gallery forest and older second growth, and forages on large trees by probing the bark, epiphytes, mossy clumps, and vines — which wouldn't be left on trees in intensively managed coffee farms.

The palm fruit oil we source is not linked to the destruction of old growth rain forests, the release of greenhouse gases, the displacement of native people, or the extinction of orangutans or Sumatran tigers (which only live in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia).

A natural yeast starter (the lactobacilli is part of the starter) is like an old growth forest.

But by stopping the destruction of mature (old - growth) forests, we prevent a huge amount of carbon from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting Earth - friendly planting and management of young forests, we absorb large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

We are also actively involved in efforts to encourage the responsible management of Massachusetts forests and protection of 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.

Merely being in the presence of such iconic (if not controversial) species as tiny Marbled Murrelets and reclusive Spotted Owls — both pawns in the long - standing battle to conserve old - growth forests in the Northwest — was in itself a humbling experience.

However, Canada's old growth and intact forests are logged at a rate of five acres a minute, 24 hours a day.»

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

It protects most of the wilderness and old - growth forest remaining in the Northeast.

Old - growth forests tend to have moderate temperatures compared to their surroundings, which could potentially provide heat - sensitive birds a refuge

A recent study reported that across the Pacific Northwest, tree mortality has quadrupled since the 1970s; 1.3 percent of trees in old - growth forests die each year.

Past logging has razed more than a third of Białowieża Forest, but much old - growth — defined as a stand of trees in which at least 10 % are older than 100 years — survives on land managed by State Forests.

The battle is over a comparably ancient and cherished habitat: old - growth stands in the managed forest, particularly those rich in spruce.

Their findings, Luyssaert says: «old - growth forests continued to accumulate carbon.»

«The data that are available show that, like the boreal and temperate forests, tropical old - growth forests also continue to take up and sequester carbon,» says forest scientist Eugenie Euskirchen of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who was not involved in this research.

Biologist Sebastiaan Luyssaert of the University of Antwerp in Belgium and his colleagues surveyed all the existing measurements of how much carbon is absorbed and released from old - growth forests (exclusively in temperate and boreal forests due to a lack of extensive data on tropical forests).

Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their old - growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.

Luyssaert suggests that credit — and money — should be given to protect such old - growth forests under carbon trading schemes and other economic mechanisms to combat climate change.

Protecting old - growth temperate and subpolar forests might prove a boon to the fight against global warming, also because of the soils they currently shade.

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

Louis and her colleagues measured the annual growth of six species of trees in an old - growth rain forest in La Selva, Costa Rica, between 1984 and 2000.

According to some estimates, less than 10 percent of forests worldwide can be considered old growth, or undisturbed for more than a century.

Białowieża is the best - preserved remnant of old - growth forest that once spanned lowland Europe.

«Preserving mycodiversity is a huge argument for the preservation of old - growth forests,» he says.

He began amassing a genetic library of hundreds of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the old - growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing.

Whether secondary forest can help avoid large - scale species extinctions also depends on the extent to which animals and plants accustomed to old - growth forests can successfully recolonise new areas.

The newly described Melicope is apparently restricted to unique old growth forest featuring a combination of tree species that are only found on Kaua'i.

Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old - growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale.

The Bia?owie?a Forest, one of the last remaining tracts of old - growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to chooseForest, one of the last remaining tracts of old - growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to chooseforest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose from.

Timber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any country.

The aging of forests in the region was also a significant force behind potential slowing accumulation rates as growth rates are typically lower for older forest.

Most scientists agreed and felt that the old - growth forest should be left largely unmanaged.

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

It takes about a hundred years for the new growth to store as much carbon as the old forest, they calculate.

«The Philippines is one of the most heavily deforested countries in the tropics; only about seven percent of the old - growth tropical forest is left.

But before you could conclude that your forest is older than one in the next state, you'd have to allow for complicating factors that affect a tree's growth rate — soil conditions, for instance.

Join our local naturalist guide for a leisurely hike through Olympic National Park and discover its three distinct ecosystems: rugged glacier - capped mountains, wild Pacific coastline and the magnificent old - growth Hoh Rain Forest, one of the few temperate rainforests in the U.S.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

But such tedious field work has enabled researchers to show that logging and roadbuilding can stress out the spotted owl, a threatened species that lives in old - growth forests in the Northwestern United States.

Midway up the mountains, overgrown clear - cuts show up as yellow - green rectangles against the darker green of old - growth forest.

The report predicts that within 16 years, the old growth forests of British Columbia will have disappeared.

Young orchids depend entirely on symbiotic fungi to provide energy for growth, and new research shows that those fungi are finicky, preferring older forests.

As demand for wood pellets rises, old growth forests are also put under pressure of harvest.

I am also confident that these species are very rare and may be dependent on old - growth forests or small water bodies such as springs and wetlands.»