Sentences with phrase «while older forests»

People usually say that young forests take up carbon dioxide fast and store it away, while older forests are probably neutral.

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Denzel Whitaker plays a young Zuri, while Forest Whitaker played the older Zuri.

While they were in the forest saints came to visit them and, in order to entertain and encourage them, told a number of stories, among them the Ramayana itself, indicating that it is the older of the two.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

Forest stands comprised of older, larger trees tended not to be very susceptible, while young trees are known not to be susceptible and were not sampled.

While some climatologists study tree rings to decode the history of climatic change, others are scrutinizing a different kind of tree record: century - old forest photographs.

For example, the Northwest Forest Plan helps conserve old - growth forests, watersheds and species, while maintaining timber and other resources for communities in the region.

So we have the national «liberal» media, like the NYT and NBC, blowing this story, while the local, conservative media get it right, see «conservative San Diego Union knows climate change is killing Western forests» and «Oldest Utah newspaper: Bark - beetle driven wildfires are a vicious climate cycle.»

The 31 - year - old actor paints a portrait of Samantha, 26, while she sits at the base of a tree with a gorgeous forest scene behind her.

And, while the big bear that roams the forest, Mor» du, may be a little too much to handle for the very small, there is enough humour during times of peril to distract those a little older.

Being old - school, the brothers dragged what was left of the carcass back into the woods, returning it to the forest, returning the skeleton to the very place where the elk had been bedded down when Jyl had first crept up on it — as if she had only borrowed it from the forest for a while — and then they drove back down to their ranch house and hung the ham and shoulder quarters on meat hooks to age in the barn, and draped the backstraps likewise from hooks, where they would leave them for at least a week.

My 12 - year - old daughter explores the small forest and writes endless entries in her journal while I take charge of the cooking and the tool shed.

Enjoy the tranquility of paddling through secluded bays and hiking through old - growth forests while learning about the area's rich indigenous culture and human history.

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By combining the two sets of seemingly contradictory facts — alternative facts, we can see that while the Amazonian forests are certainly old - growth forests, having existed in their current states for hundreds, up to thousands, of years, they are not «virgin forest, primeval forest» at all but have actually been created by long - term interactions with the human civilizations that lived within them.

The extent of old - growth forest in Sumatra shrank by 40 percent over the past 20 years, while overall forest on the Indonesian island declined by...

The focus must be upon ending first time industrial logging of primary forests, while providing local peoples alternative incomes based upon fully intact standing old forests.

Since many birds require both young and old forest habitat to survive, these results help landowners understand how to manage for forest products, while enhancing the land's value for birds.

While logging does create young forests that absorb carbon, the process of harvesting large old growth and burning logging debris transfers most of the carbon to the atmosphere leaving a «carbon debt» that takes the growing young forest centuries to repay.