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Collins led the successful charge to triple funding for early reading initiatives. Her goal of expanding access to higher ... , for instance, the forest was rapidly converted to agricultural uses for the first 200 years of European settlement. By 1850, ... forest. WiNR: Reforestation is the renewal of a forest after a disturbance. Contrasted to this is deforestation, the long term loss of forest cover ...
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Water Harvesting Systems : Traditional Systems
Five rivers that used to go dry immediately ... to get the pat flowing and the winter crop is sown in early November. Naada / Bandha Naada/bandha are found in the Mewar region ... the embankment; many older and smaller tanks were constructed near the human settlement or near the slopes of a cluster of hills. These tanks ...
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Be Woods Wise - Maine's Changing Forests
European settlement, has had a major influence on the amount of forest cover ... forest for pasture and cropland. The forests are in the way, and are cut, stumps pulled and piled as brush fences to keep in livestock, burned, or consumed for early ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
Gughe Mountains are heavily populated and intensively cultivated, and only small patches of montane forest ... 1960s. The species suffered major declines in the early 1900s and in the 1960s. Since 1987, ... 50% of forest cover to human activities, followed by a similar rate of decline in the remaining forest cover between 1994 ...
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Forest Composition and Structure on the Colorado Plateau
Grasses and forbes on the forest ... has been large decline in the quaking aspen cover type in just the last 30 years, ... settlement. Ecological Monographs 30: 129-164. Covington, W. W. 1994. Post-settlement changes in natural fire regimes and forest ...
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East African Wildlife Society - Kenya's forests are disappearing: So What?
Even at its greatest spread, before extensive agricultural settlement and deforestation took place, indigenous forest cover would not have been more than 15 percent of the total ... benefit from the arrangement. In the early 1990s implementation of community participation in forest protection had already successfully commenced in a model forest, Kakamega, before the project was closed ...
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Lake Early Settlement by Europeans(4) Despite the fact that French explorers "discovered" Lake Ontario in the 17th century, both political and logistical obstacles held back full-scale settlement well ... beds became smothered with silt. Increases in water temperatures caused by the elimination of forest cover from stream banks along with the construction of dams also had catastrophic consequences ...
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Appraising Soil Fertility in Early Colonial New Zealand: The 'Biometric Fallacy' and Beyond
E&H Environment and History Appraising Soil Fertility in Early Colonial New Zealand: The 'Biometric Fallacy' and Beyond Vaughan ... from the 'humus theory' of soil fertility. Accordingly, when dense forest cover was found over large areas of New Zealand this ... Zealand Company, the main agency involved in promoting the organised settlement of New Zealand. During the 1840s, the biometric approach ...
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Rainforest Biogeography
As the isolated Australasian plate drew northwards during the early Tertiary (about 40-30 million years ago), distinctively Asian ... forest cover that is occurring in other parts of the tropics. West Africa has now lost most of its natural forest cover to ... only inhabitants of the rainforests of the Americas before European settlement were native hunter gathers and shifting cultivators. Other native ...
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