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John Muir & I
The national forests, it was generally accepted, were to be used. At that ... willing to allow extensive logging and dam construction in National Forests, anything to preserve the National Parks. The idea that ... these must have been a powerful stimulus, absorbed with the primeval forests of Muir's travels. Peter Schmitt has placed the origins ...
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Glen Canyon Institute
Golden Gate, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island, and Point Reyes; and in protecting primeval forests in the Olympic National Park, and wilderness on San Gorgonio. He was instrumental in the ...
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The Delaware Riverkeeper Network
American chestnut, hickory, and chestnut oak) primeval forests. In pre-human eras natural events, such as fire and storms, changed soil composition ... 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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Environmental History Resources - Essays - Wood in world history
BCE, the mountain slopes of this region were covered with massive cedar forests. These forests disappeared in the millennia before Christ's birth about two thousand years ago. The ... and, fortunately for Gilgamesh, the primeval forests of Mesopotamia remained almost untouched at that time. But it was not an easy task for Gilgamesh to enter the forests and cut down the trees ...
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Environment Probe
When the above poem was penned, ... forests brings a host of evils in its train,"(9) the province took a preliminary step: it established Algonquin Park in order, among other things, to preserve the primeval ... more information on governments' incentives to destroy forests, see Solomon, "Save the Forests – Sell the Trees," excerpted in Dolan ...
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Jill Redwood on East Gippsland.
Plateau has rich rainforests extending along creeks and gullies, blanketed in by wet sclerophyll forests. Age old eucalypts tower over a luxurious understorey of tree ferns, conical-shaped sassafras ... logging causes major structural damage to the delicate ecological associations and intricacies of these primeval forests. Trees may eventually be coaxed to return, but such an extraordinary and finely ...
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Population Action International : Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
Yet we not only need more forests, we need forests more than ever before–to protect the world's remaining plant and animal life ... . The vast primeval forests of Europe and Asia survive today only as patchwork remnants of secondary growth, much of it vulnerable to logging, encroachment by development, pollution, fire and disease. Forests are currently ...
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Destruction of America's Last Wild Forests
Save America's Forests, would protect and restore these national treasures. America was once covered with one billion acres of towering primeval forests. These forests were teeming with ... the national forests for 2 ½ years, and increased logging of rare, previously protected Ancient Forests. The Ancient Forests, the roadless areas forests, and other biologically critical forests were clearcut ...
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Green Home Building: Save our Forests Questions and Answers
Encourage sustainable well managed local forests by investing in local wood products and forestry companies that care. The most productive (clean water, clean air, etc.) and resilient forests ... .... The Redesigned Forest and Forest Primeval, The Natural History of an Ancient ...
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WWF - Successes from WWF's Forests for Life Programme
Can Help News & Facts FAQ search Home > About WWF > What We Do > Forests > News > Successes Forests About Forests Problems Our Solutions What You Can Do News Successes Events Resources Photogallery Successes ... southern Chile. » Read more 24 Jul 2007 Ancient beech forests in the Carpathians declared World Heritage site Primeval beech forests in the Carpathian Mountains have been inscribed on the UN ...
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