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High Stakes Negotiations Over Fate of Katahdin Lake Tract
Maine should not be a surprise to anyone, given ... the state’s land have mature white pine amid a multi-aged forest of hardwoods and softwood. On the north bank, there are ... is a relatively undisturbed hardwood floodplain forest more than a mile long, according to MNAP. The forest is terraced – a rare find – ...
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Forest Cycles
Douglas-fir forest west of the Cascade Range to produce timber for wood products. Patches of trees in these managed forests are usually kept even-aged, which means all the ... trees. Pruning produces wood without knots. Fertilizing encourages faster growth. Prescribed fires, set purposely by forest managers before planting trees, reduce fuel or dead wood and competing vegetation. Look at the ...
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Forest Cycles
Forest Cycles Eastside Puzzle The forest in this example is managed to produce large, old trees and fire-resistant conditions. This is one of the many ways to manage a ponderosa pine forest east of the Cascade Range. This managed forest is uneven-aged, which means there ... wildlife habitat, and large trees often survive fires. Forest managers can meet a wide range of ...
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Current Projects
Parker Pond. Wildlife and plant habitats are diverse, including stream corridors, open water, peatlands, steep slopes, middle-aged forest, and young forest ... which are actively tapped for producing maple syrup. The easement also protects scenic forest frontage along Old Harrisville Road. Whippoorwill Farm East and West Easements, Marlborough, ...
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How Old Is Our Forest?
Young trees sprout up in the sun. The result is a forest of many ages, or an uneven-aged forest ... aged, forest composed of trees of the same age. Natural disturbances and human intervention shaped the forest of today. Both will shape the forest ...
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ForestHarvest - the use of non-timber forest products in Scotland - results of a 2003 survey
Scotland - results of a 2003 survey ForestHarvest: non-timber forest products in Scotland GATHERING GATHERING | SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING | HARVESTING GUIDELINES | LEGAL AND ... Scottish Opinion Survey using 'Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing'. A sample of 944 individuals aged 16+ was interviewed, at 49 sampling points in Scotland. The sample was 'weighted' ...
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SAF - About Forestry: Fun Forest Facts
SAF - About Forestry: Fun Forest Facts FUN FORESTRY FACTS Why do leaves change color? - When leaves appear green, it is ... since been aged at approximately 4,900 years. Sources: American Forest and Paper Association. Retrieved on the web at http://www.afandpa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Educators_and_Students/All_About_Trees/All_About_Trees.htm California Forest Foundation. "Points ...
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Forest Management Policies on the Colorado Plateau
Modern silviculture practices emphasize more selective, uneven-aged cutting, but even in the 1980s forest harvests tended to degrade the forest and ... yields and other multiple use values on ponderosa pine forest lands.Research Paper RM-129. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, CO. Wagner, M ...
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Forest Nature Connecting by Jenny Francis
Gradually the suburbs encroached on my natural haven. As a child aged ten I wrote an essay on the destructiveness of the bulldozers ... but less frequently. I paint and spent an entire year on a forest series trying to capture my feelings about the beauty of the bush. ... Now I participate in a Friends of group which restores the adjacent forest and I feel that I am giving back in some small way ...
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Environmental History Resources - Essays - Walk through the forest
The silvicultural system of high ... The practice of even-aged, monocultural, high forest plantations seems a very rational system that is not creating a forest but a 'timber factory'. Example of a high forest: Scots Pine (Photo: ...
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