Sentences with phrase «on national forest»

With only enough money to maintain 15 - 20 % of these roads, road removal is a necessity, not an option on national forest lands.

Last week the U.S. Forest Service rejected the Smithsonian's request to build a $ 16.6 million telescope array — what would be the largest array of ground - based gamma ray telescopes in the world — on national forest land near the base of the mountain, citing the proximity of a Native American sweat lodge.

But now, according to Suzanne Nelson, the reserve project's director, the designation is official and it is the first botanical area to be so designated on National Forest land.

Several guidebooks exist for developing adaptation options on forested lands; these include Responding to Climate Change on National Forests (Peterson et al. 2011), Climate Change in Forests of the Future (Millar et al. 2007), and Forest Adaptation Resources (Swanston et al. 2016).

«Both teams demonstrate a unique approach to removing a major barrier preventing more restoration work on our National Forests,» said Leslie Weldon, Deputy Chief of the National Forest System.

In November the U.S. Forest Service, based on aerial surveys, estimated the drought killed more than 102 million trees on national forests in California, with the greatest concentration in the southern Sierra Nevada.

To protect owl and salmon habitats, the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan reduced timber production on national forests in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California by more than 80 percent, resulting in mill closures and job losses that were particularly hard on rural areas with no other industry.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

As the world warms, Costa Rica will likely depend on its carbon - sucking national forests.

She has completed one on California's ancient redwood forest — produced with her husband Christopher Johnson — and the couple are talking to National Geographic about a documentary on sharks in New Zealand's reef system.

On that day, entrance fees will be waived at any of the parks that have them, including Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.

Four of the five places with the best renters insurance quotes in South Dakota are located near the western border of the state, on the outskirts of the Black Hills National Forest.

It is on the road to Beartooth Highway, a scenic mountain drive that passes through Custer National Forest.

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Whoever reads On the Edge of the Primeval Forest or the chapters in Schweitzer's autobiography dealing with his life in Africa, as if they were the sort of glib, humorous travelogue stories one finds in National Geographic, is missing a great deal.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for theirForest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for theirforest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Building on a favorable national policy framework for community forestry development in Cameroon, the Rainforest Alliance is developing a model for community - owned forest enterprises.

We have applied this approach in Cameroon, focusing on two clusters of community forests that border protected areas in the country's southern region — one cluster that's adjacent to the CampoMa'an National Park and another that's near the Dja Biosphere Reserve.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.

This past February's supper, Wintertide, was deep in the Willamette National Forest and featured a German - influenced menu heavy on cabbage, alpine cheeses, and Pono Farm beef stew.

Secret Supper diners have since congregated four times a year under a grove of trees in the foothills of Mount Hood, on the shores of the Oregon coast, and in the shade of the Willamette National Forest.

Start with nearly 500 acres on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest near Franconia, N.H. Add a rustic ski lodge, built in 1946 by Miller's grandfather Jack Kenney.

There are a lot of plants on those acres that surround Argonne National Laboratory, and the Forest Preserve of DuPage County says it is home to 740 native plant species and 300 species of mammals.

As Susan Bragg walks the Oak Forest Loop around Attleboro Springs Wildlife Sanctuary at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, she comments on how much visitors appreciate the property.

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The closing of private sites and parks on leased government land along with guarding access to normally open and unguarded national parks / forests, like the Appalachian trail is due to the Washington Monument Syndrome.

The seventh largest wildfire in state history started on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Upton property and, fueled by strong winds and dry tinder on the forest floor, quickly spread south and east into the Riverhead Town section of Manorville.

The bomb threat that forced the local Jewish Community Center to evacuate both its buildings, on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and North Forest Road in Amherst, late Monday morning was part of a nationwide effort that saw at least 10 such centers targeted with similar threats, according to local and national officials.

For instance, a journalist observed that even though many doubted the sincerity of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki when he sought and obtained approval for postponement of 2015 general election to enable the military to degrade Boko Haram and ensure maximum security of voters, all known terrorists» camps were destroyed before the emergence of new government on May 29; Sambisa Forest was stormed by «Special «M» forces» and about 300 kidnapped women and children were freed; 22 terrorist occupied towns in three states were recovered; and Boko Haram could not disrupt the elections.

Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth's life support system: the atmosphere, oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.

View the first North American total solar eclipse in nearly three decades as you venture north from Seattle on a route linking historic port towns, state, and national parks set beside the Pacific, and rugged mountain slopes descending through pristine forest to the sea.

Later on, I also worked as a consultant, when GTZ and the national forest office engaged me in Benin in 1998.

Shortly before my Benin Lama Forest consultancy began, the opportunity arose to conduct a long - term study, financially supported by GTZ's Tropical Ecology Support Programme, on the influence of poaching on monkeys and the secondary impacts on the vegetation in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.

Although the focus of the Forest Service's report is on the 193 million acres of national forest, the purpose of the guidance is to provide technical information to any interested Forest Service's report is on the 193 million acres of national forest, the purpose of the guidance is to provide technical information to any interested forest, the purpose of the guidance is to provide technical information to any interested party.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

October 27: Take to the trails on the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, the conservationist president who reserved 230 million acres of land for national parks, forests and monuments.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

Venturing north from Seattle on a route linking historic port towns, you pass through a string of spectacular state and national parks set beside the Pacific, where rugged mountain slopes descend through pristine forest to the sea.

Cerro Hoya National Park is an isolated tropical forest remnant (325 square kilometers, 125 square miles) on Panama's Pacific coast, whereas Darién National Park is Panama's most extensive park (5,790 square kilometers, 2235 square miles) in the area between Panama and Colombia, the only gap in the Pan-American highway from Alaska to Chile.

He says farmers trying to hide forbidden crops often go deep into forests, including national parks, fragmenting the habitats that threatened species depend on.

Since 1988, the ministry has relied on the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) to analyze land cover changes in the Amazon, which holds the world's largest intact swaths of forest.

Hedges and a colleague found the animals, named Sphaerodactylus ariasae, in a sink hole and cave in a forest on the island of Beata, part of the Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

The main legal brake on deforestation is the national Forest Code, which requires farmers in the Amazon to retain 80 per cent of the forest as «legal reserves&rForest Code, which requires farmers in the Amazon to retain 80 per cent of the forest as «legal reserves&rforest as «legal reserves».

«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»

So, for example, a poor person living on a logging road in the Chequamegon - Nicolet National Forest was more likely to be happy than a wealthier person living on a treeless block in Milwaukee.

IIASA researchers, together with colleagues from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), worked with national forest representatives in EU countries and the EU Expert Group on Forest Fires to understand fire prevention options and their imforest representatives in EU countries and the EU Expert Group on Forest Fires to understand fire prevention options and their imForest Fires to understand fire prevention options and their impacts.

Her 9,390 - acre (3,800 - hectare) soy, corn, and cattle farm, sits on the border of Emas National Park — a mix of grassland savanna and forest that has been compared to the African plains because of plentiful, charismatic wildlife.

Their blue, gray or reddish colors mirror the stone layers exposed on the surrounding badlands here in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.