But it also eliminated the challenge of building around all the old trees on their lot.
Fire serves to clear out old trees and excess underbrush so younger trees can grow.
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Due to government efforts to save more of these valuable, old trees, modern-day makoros are increasingly made of fiberglass.
Everything seemed huge--the century-old trees above and the butterflies and amazing dragonflies that hovered and nosedived around me.
During the decline, farmers neglected their plantations and failed to replace old trees.
The answer provided by Mr Thom's maths was to chop down old trees, which foresters said they knew anyway.
In March, they pushed a city government to not to cut down 600 old trees, and organized help for earthquake victims in Japan.
She watched as her grandmother struggled to thread a needle with fingers that were beginning to bend at odd angles, like old trees.
Today, the 2, 600-acre gated enclave, situated some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, boasts century-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a number of Gilded-Age mansions designed by well-known architects of the day.
This exclusive 2, 600-acre gated enclave 40 miles and some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, nestled in the Ramapo Mountains, boasts 100 year-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a significant spectrum of European-style architecture.
Unlike solar or wind, which make up the carbon footprint from their manufacture and installation in five to ten years, trees take decades to grow large enough to absorb all the carbon released upon burning the old trees.
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Around him, soft green hills stretch to the horizon, descending into cool glades crowded with broad-trunked, 400-year-old oak trees.
The Giant Sequoia half-day trail ride takes you into Mariposa Grove, where the breathtaking 2, 000-year-old redwood trees live.
There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants.
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To the east, two extended traditional neighborhoods have been totally wiped out and dozens of old plane trees uprooted overnight.
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It also has up to 3, 000 plants, 300-year-old Yew trees, and it takes four gardeners three months to trim the hedges.
It was a little camp in the California foothills: a woodsy reserve dotted with old oak trees sloping down to a well-shaded river.
Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.
Originally conceived as a royal palace for visiting VIPs, the nearly-500-room hotel sits on 52 acres of gardens (complete with 600-year-old olive trees imported from Lebanon) and guests are chauffeured around in Cadillac golf carts.
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The park comprises more than 5, 000 acres and 70 miles of trails nestled under towering old-growth trees.
The 3km and 9km Circles in a Forest trails explore the refreshing green environment, passing 3m-high tree ferns, old-growth trees, strange fungi and babbling brooks.
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
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It may be a further stretch of the definition of biergarten, but the best beer bar in the city, Spuyten Duyvil in Williamsburg, does have a lovely, shaded backyard with trees and old metal lawn furniture.
La Cafeteria serves dinner and drinks in an old house with a wonderful outdoor patio under old, over-hanging trees.
Once they do, the people from Valley Stream will see Buscemi raise a toast to the old days of drinking in Trees Lounge.
And although it is true, as loggers argue, that extracting old, slow-growing trees and preserving their carbon in expensive furniture may represent a net sequestration opportunity, high levels of wastage make the argument less convincing.
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Remove 200-year-old Amazon mahogany or Congolese sapele trees and the species may go locally extinct.
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As a result, the majority of Connecticut's trees are over 60 years old.
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