By 1902, as the northern forests disappeared, sawmill output was down 80%.
For all their past exploitation, the northern forests are still the greatest stretch of mostly undeveloped land on the east coast.
Scientists recently discovered that once the snow melts in the Earth's northern forests, the surface releases a significant amount of heat into the overlying atmosphere that influences global weather systems.
The question of whether the northern forests eventually go to the federal government, to conservation groups, to the state government, to giant log-and-paper concerns or to private developers may well be decided in the next decade.
To try and re-establish the relationship, he takes them on a journey to the remote northern lakes, forests and islands.
It's understood that the SDLP will also propose selling off small forests across Northern Ireland which are not widely used by the public.
Located in the boreal forests near the village of Harads in northern Sweden, the Treehotel opened its doors in the summer of 2010 and offers six guest rooms.
Wally Covington, a professor of forestry at Northern Arizona University, reckons that 75m acres of western forests are prone to severe wildfire.
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In northern Lebanon, in the town of Becharre near the famous cedar tree forests, the local specialty is kibbeh mishwiyeh: fresh minced lamb rolled up with bulgur wheat to form giant meatballs the size of tennis balls, stuffed with caramelized onions and pine nuts and grilled until crunchy on the outside.
It has rampaged eastwards into northern Alberta for the first time. (It has also made localised attacks on forests in all 11 western American states.) Scientists now fear the voracious beetle is about to invade the jack pines of the boreal forest, which could see the plague sweep across northern Canada to the Atlantic coast.
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