Earlier this year a total ban on mushroom-collecting was imposed in southern England's New Forest area after an invasion of commercial pickers.
In the years between 1890 and 1910, a part of the forest area was settled as the Nubian area just adjacent to the garrison or army barracks.
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In 1917 through 1918, owing to the need to ensure the strength and loyalty of its forces, the British registered the Nubians in their survey as occupying a forest area of about 4, 200 acres.
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The Geological Survey report, said Patrick Creighton, a spokesman for the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry group, found that oil and gas activity affected less than 1 percent of the forest area in Allegheny and Susquehanna counties.
He wandered and hitchhiked from prairie to desert to forest to roadless area.
After the lumber industry depleted local forest, the area became designated a protected national park with a coastline famous for spotting resident beluga whales and other species that migrate here to feed in the nutrient-rich waters.
Emerson's body was found with guidance from Hilton in the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area -- about 30 miles south of the Union County, Georgia, state park where she went hiking in the mountains with her dog, Ella.
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There has long been opposition to the prospect of a gold mine and processing plant being built at Skouries in the Halkidiki peninsula, with some residents objecting to what they say will be the destruction of the environment and of pristine forest in the area, leading to the loss of tourism and other local activities such as farming, the rearing of livestock and fishing.
The loggers' hostility towards Seeds of the Forest has grown in recent months because the settlers want the authorities to allow them to use another large area of forest adjacent to their settlement.
By 2015 there will be a complete network of protected areas on at least 12% of the area covered by the Plan Nord as well as 12% of the area of the boreal forest blanket will be dedicated to the creation of the protected area.
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Professor Enquist and his team examined how an area of forest had changed between 1976 and 1996.
Since the scheme began, according to the report, the area under forest management has increased from 5, 000km2 to 6, 500km2.
The force of the explosion laid waste to a dense area of forest covering more than 2000 square kilometers.
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But the local Udege people and the forest rangers say the area is inaccessible to both loggers and poachers.
The Amazon rain forest covers a huge area, roughly half as large as the United States, with about 60% of it in Brazil.
"Every year in tropical countries we lose about an area of forest about the size of New York state, " said Peter Frumhoff, of the advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The core area of Achanakmar-Amarkantak consists of the protected forest land while the buffer zone and the transition area are characterised by forests, agricultural and rehabilitated land and small suburban clusters.
Authorities earlier this week had been searching a 400-square-mile area of the forest.
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To have an active cull area in the Forest of Dean I think can only do damage to its reputation.
One million trees will be planted in Uganda to sustain an area of tropical forest in Africa the size of Wales.
The forest around the main lodge area is full of birds, with guinea fowl, hornbills, kingfishers and many more all readily seen on short walks.
On Friday up to 300 people are expected to start replanting in the most severely damaged area of Crowthorne Forest with species including sweet chestnuts, sequoia, Douglas firs and mountain pines.
"I would like anyone who saw her or any vehicles, especially in the area of Savernake forest where there are likely to have been only a small number of vehicles at that time of night, to make contact with police, " he added.
Total carbon deposits per square kilometer in these coastal systems may be up to five times the carbon stored in tropical forests, due to their ability to absorb, or sequester, carbon at rates up to 50 times those of the same area of tropical forest.
Major activities in the area are agriculture, forest management, sand and gravel extraction, industry (diverse types), and ecotourism.
All the World Cup events took place in or around the Nevis Range ski area and the Leanachan Forest.
The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has added its support to a project to sustain an area of African tropical forest the size of Wales.
Central government, the local community and environmentalists agreed to put land and forest of significance in the control of the Department of Conservation, with a small area of 50, 000 hectares made available for sustainable indigenous forest harvesting.
It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
But the area is part of Epping Forest, which is protected from development.
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