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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
The island of Madeira, which means "wood," was densely covered by primeval forest when Henry the Navigator colonized it in the 15th century. Within a decade, massive fires ... of trees. The European colonists of North America were amazed at the extent of the primeval forest, which stretched almost unbroken from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. A squirrel, some said ...
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The Delaware Riverkeeper Network
In pre-human eras natural events, such as fire and storms, changed soil composition and shade that resulted in a diverse, new forest cover. Most of the original virgin timber forest ... increasingly large human population. A number of animal species have disappeared along with the primeval forest, including the passenger pigeon, mountain lion, black bear, and Canada lynx. Their cries ...
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TRAVEL AND LEISURE - DESTINATION HIGHLIGHTS - MAE FAH LUANG ARBORETUM - On Doi Chang Mub
Doi Tung Development Project, Doi Chang Mub had been stripped bare of its primeval forest cover. The cross-border ‘opium trail’ also led through the area. Hence in 1992 ... and mammals have now returned to their former natural habitats. In the shade of the forest cover, wild orchids and a variety of other epiphytic plants, such as the Euang Ta ...
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EcoNews, Serving the Vision of a Sustainable Vancouver Island
Chile be certified by the international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), based in Mexico. The FSC has widespread credibility ... or 2003, of wild V.I. marmots. While TimberWest and Weyerhaeuser continue to exterminate the primeval forest surrounding the last marmot colony at the top of Green Mountain, they throw a few ...
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Environment Probe
When the above poem was penned, government policies had propelled more than a century of forest destruction.(2) France's military needs ... established Algonquin Park in order, among other things, to preserve the primeval forest. Park designation did not, however, protect Algonquin's forest from logging. From the park's earliest days, lumbermen already ...
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GCC: African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW)
Jock Leslie-Melville Sanctuary - AFEW's primeval forest - with an educational officer who teaches them about environmental protection matters. In addition to saving ...
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Rara Avis -- a Costa Rican rainforest experience
Costa Rica. Here you can experience the the primeval forest in all its glory - thousands of species of plants and animals, living in the balance ... Costa Rican rainforest is a wonderland for nature lovers, biologists, photographers and birders. The towering forest is laced with vines and lianas, the trees covered with epiphytes, bromeliads and orchids. If ...
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Salla. Finnish Nature League Forest: Forest and Park Service logging in Salla 1999.
Forest and Park Service logging in Salla 1999 National heritage been cut down along the UKK-hiking trail. Logging in primeval forests and high altitude areas. Logging in Aihkipetsi and near Savukoski border "Counting the annual rings of a log, gave the age of the tree some 500-600 years." "Primeval forest ...
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Tuntsa-Naruska, Salla. Landscape photos. Forests being logged by Forest and Park Service.
Forests being logged by Forest and Park Service. www.luontoliitto.fi/forest/reports/salla Tuntsa-Naruska area in Salla municipality: Moukavaara old-growth forest and Sorsatunturi-Aitatsivaara landscape Scenery of threatened high altitude forests of Toresvaara-Aitatsivaara, behind the bare top of Sorsatunturi fjell. Primeval forest at Moukavaara, ...
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Letters and Articles published on Forest Issues - November 1996 to June 1997
CFMEU members picket to prevent forest protesters from leaving Otways forest 156 BEAM ME UP FOR TIMBER'S ... 153 DECEPTION RULES IN SALE OF PRECIOUS FOREST 8/1/99 ANTHONY AMIS, Native Forest Network The Age (letter) Excellent critique ... FOREST PRIMEVAL 9/11/98 Karen Lyon, City Reporter The Age (article) A Melbourne exhibition for our forests that are being destroyed . . . 126 INDOOR FOREST ...
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